The Appintop podcast interviewed Romuald Zdebsky, head of Mobile games at Microsoft Russia. We publish the printed version of the conversation with the kind permission of the podcast on App2Top.ru .

The authors of Puzzle & Dragons have acquired a 70% stake in the American social gaming network Playphone for an unknown amount.

In the first 9 months of this year, Puzzle & Dragons developers earned $1.22 billion.

Those who haven’t optimized their apps for iOS 8 yet should hurry up. More than half of the users of Apple mobile products have installed a new version of the “Apple” OS.

The authors of Cocos2d-x together with Chartboost, Kochava, PlayFab, Scientific Revenue and Vungle will launch a marketing platform for mobile app developers.

Big Huge Games, which has risen from the ashes, led by Brian Reynolds, has announced a mobile game in which players will be able to spend their civilization from the Stone Age to the space age.

Since October 28, mobile advertising within the VKontakte social network has become available to all advertisers.

“Red Anya” at the end of October presented the September results of the mobile games market.

Taiwan is an excellent region for a “soft” launch if the company plans to publish its game in Japan.

The world release of Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf, a turn-based tactical strategy with elements of a collectible card game, took place.