While some are talking about the death of freeware and quests, and others about the bright future of free-2-play and endless gameplay as a necessary condition for success, Japanese developers from Matrix Software are going their own way. 

Gameloft publishing house announced its social successes: its page was “liked” by 10 million users. It also turned out exactly how many people in the company work with the gaming community. 

To be honest, we have already begun to tire of announcements of announcements of future projects. But, as in the case of Rovio, we have no right to ignore the new Halfbrick project.

FDG owner Philippe Doschl spoke at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference about whether it is worth making clones today, and if so, how exactly.

The promised release of the mobile version of the Zombies board game at the end of 2012!!! still happened. Babaroga kept its word and released the iOS version of the bloody game on the App Store.

Today, the Korean company announced that it has surpassed the 300 million total downloads from around the world. The company has received a third of them in the last seven months.

Google has launched a new version of its Google Play mobile app store for desktop users. 

During the year, the gaming platform of the social messenger Kakao gained 30 million users. Her income in just six months was $311 million.

The mobile software market is becoming more and more interesting for “capitalists”. Since the beginning of 2013 , investors have invested $262 million in mobile app companies .

In a June report published by Distimo, Clash of Clans stands out against the background of other popular applications: its revenue has tripled. Such an increase in the game’s performance ensured its success in the Japanese market.

Last week, Svyaznoy, a company that sells mobile equipment in Russia, published an infographic about the state of affairs on the domestic smartphone market.

Unity celebrates 2 million registered developers, Hasbro buys Backflip Studios, LingPlay talks about cooperation with Kongregate, Fiksu sums up May – all this in our traditional Monday digest.

An unknown buyer purchased part of the shares of Kabam for $ 38.5 million, estimating its full value at $ 700 million, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Justin Rapp from App Annie at the conference White Nights 2013 spoke about the latest trends in the mobile market, including the active growth of the Chinese and Russian markets.

The Finnish company announced that it is working on the second part of Angry Birds Star Wars 2. 

The developers of the platform are going to launch a service for working with IAP, which will allow you to change the price and set of goods in in-game stores in real time. 

Origin8 studio, noted for the Sentinel series, is working on a remake of Transport Tycoon for iOS and Android.