The game, as previously announced, is distributed under a shareware model. The title is in many ways similar to a simplified version of its “big brother” – SimCity. 

Venturebeat has published a study of mobile marketing in the context of business relations. Its results are the result of a survey of 169 B2B marketers. 

The update, which will be released on November 5, will feature a new monetization model. In the previous version, the player had to invest to get access to all the features of the game. In addition, the user paid extra for certain cards. In the new version, the developers promise, there will be no hard need to invest: the player will be able to simply collect cards.

Mobile analytical service YouAppi closed A-round of investments, raising $ 3 million. The money was invested by Glilot Capital Partners, two business angels and the international venture fund Flint Capital.

Since the beginning of this year, Asia has attracted the largest number of installations through advertising, reports nativemobile.com with reference to the latest quarterly AppFlood report.

CPI is the dominant model in the mobile advertising market. For example, 59% of Facebook’s advertising revenue in the second quarter came from mobile advertising, the main share of which is CPI, Venturebeat writes.  But the cost of such advertising is very high, moreover, it continues to grow. According to Fiksu, the annual price increase for installations was 16% on iOS and 44% on Android. Today, many cannot afford it. For large advertisers, its high…

Unity founder David Helgason is leaving the post of CEO. His place will be taken by John Riccitiello, who headed Electronic Arts from 2007 to 2013. He was one of the investors Oculus. John has been on the Unity board of directors since last November. Helgason is not going to leave the company, he plans to engage in “strategy and communication with developers.” 

Game studio Playstudios, specializing in gambling for smartphones and social networks, became richer by $20 million during the third investment round. The main amount was invested by Jafco Ventures, MGM Resorts International, which owns 80% of the casinos in the Las Vegas Strip, also acted as one of the many investors, Gamesbeat writes.

The global release of Retry, the first game of the experimental publishing division of Rovio – Rovio LVL11, took place. In softlonch, the game has been in Canada since May of this year, but in the box office top it did not rise above the 1006 position in the overall.

The game studio Small Giant Games, located in Helsinki, received from investors an amount of $ 3.1 million in addition to the $750,000 raised in October last year, – they write on PocketGamer.biz . Most of the amount in the second round of financing fell on the company-“angel” Creandum.

The final version of Scrolls from the Swedish studio Mojang is being prepared for release.

The release of the game Camp Pokémon on iOS took place. The target audience of the title is children from 6 to 8 years old.

The festival of gamers and igrodelov in St. Petersburg NextCastle.ru and geekparty.ru they hold a week-long competition for high-speed game development.

Chinese publisher OurPalm is investing $30 million in the mobile gaming company FingerFun.

The game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will not appear on Android and iPhone until early next year, according to the official website of Blizzard.

We continue to talk with various advertising networks about, in fact, the market and themselves. On the interview queue with AdvertMobile.

Today, in the App Store and Google Play, you can find many projects in the match-3 genre. Only some rise in the box office top, while others remain unnoticed. How to make such a “three-in-a-row” that will bring money, we talked with the authors of the game “Mysteries of Atlantis”

The value of King Digital shares has declined and continues to fall.

From February next year, any application or update to get permission to publish in the App Store will have to support 64-bit code and be built on the iOS 8 SDK.