Geo-location advertising services will become more relevant in the near future. According to BIA/Kelsey, the technologies are already ready for mass use. By 2017, the cost of this type of advertising will exceed $10.8 billion.

The executive director of King responded in detail to all the claims made last week to the British company.

While some studios are trying to launch an IPO, others are attracting private capital. Shanda Games (whose shares are listed on NASDAQ) has announced an offer to transform into a closed company.

From August 2012 to August 2013, the number of monthly active users of games in China increased almost fivefold, according to the Chinese analytical service Umeng and the company ChinaJoy.

CSR and Clumsy Ninja publishers told what they focus on when developing and launching mobile projects.

Anders Drachen, the main author of Game Analytics, decided to turn to what is analytics in the gaming industry. He proposed 12 steps to build a work with such information. Which ones? Read in the material.

About the imminent consumer crisis in Russia, the conflict between the “big” and “small” industries, the Indian mobile games market and the results of the latest Distimo study – in our traditional digest for last week. 

At the beginning of 2013, one of the most obvious trends was the growth of Asian markets. Today, this is no longer a trend, but a given. Distimo told about the dynamics of Asian dragons over the past year.

At the end of last year, two general managers who founded the company in 2005 left Chillingo. The company’s chief operating officer, Ed Rumley, assures that their departure will not affect the business in any way. 

The legal scandal surrounding King is not fading this week. While the British company was trying to protect its intellectual property, she herself was accused of theft.

About the difficulties of evaluating, interpreting and collecting game experience – in the article of the chief analyst of Game Analytics Anders Drachen.

Company Mail.ru reports that its search engine has now learned to search for content in mobile applications. Osmino startup helped the largest Russian Internet company in this.

After carefully studying the recent Garter report, which predicts that by 2018 only 0.01% of mobile apps will be successful, developers of the Kii platform shared how to be among that tiny fraction.

The story of the conflict between King and the authors of The Banner Saga has been continued: King does not want to quarrel with Stoic, but the creators of The Banner Saga plan to defend the rights to their IP.

While there is a debate on the web about whether Nintendo should go to mobile, and if necessary, in what capacity, Activision has announced the imminent appearance of one of the most popular mobile franchises on 3DS.

An article appeared on Gamezebo about how sad everything is in the mobile industry. There are no surprises in it, but it describes the general situation far from optimistically.