The F2P Summit was attended not only by psychologists, scientists and major studios, but also by various platform holders, including Amazon.

Speaking at the F2P Summit event, which took place in London this week, cyber psychologist Berni Good said that human envy remains the main driving force of sales in F2P projects.

Apple has announced that the latest iPhone models will officially appear on the shelves of our country before the end of this month. 

A year ago, one of the hottest topics was the following: whether a publisher is needed in the mobile market. Everyone had examples before their eyes, like Temple Run and Tiny Wings. And small teams, with an eye on the already iconic developers, wondered: what are we worse for?

A wonderful app for kids.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed Matt Dixon, head of Chillingo’s business unit.

At the end of September, Little Bit Evil from the domestic Crazy Panda team appeared on the Russian App Store. In connection with the release, we asked project manager Viktor Koroteev and Crazy Panda Executive Director Nikolai Vanin to talk about the game and its promotion. 

Yesterday, Digi-Capital published the Global Games Investment Review 2013, taking into account data for the third quarter. The main conclusion of the study: mobile/social segments have blown up the gaming market. 

Com2us – turned out to be far from the last purchase of Gamevil. Today, the Korean publisher announced the acquisition of another studio – Nine Wheels and investing in startups Everple and DBROS.

Next year, a remake of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, a cult quest about 1993 voodoo, will be released on Apple tablets.

The first eight parts of the famous Dragon Quest role-playing series, also known in the USA as Dragon Warrior, will appear on mobile devices. This became known yesterday according to official representatives of Square Enix.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed Artem Makarov, a representative of Trademob in Russia.

The arrival of big brands on the mobile market and their marketing experiments have raised the cost of users to a record value.

Amiga Games will release a large number of iconic retro video games on iOS devices. This is reported by iMore.

San Francisco-based GameSalad has signed a contract with Amazon. As part of the cooperation, the company will offer the tools necessary for publishing indie games on Kindle Fire tablets. This is reported by the Venturebeat portal.

With the kind permission of Alexey Pontyakov, mobile Games analyst Mail.Ru Group, we will repost with habrahabr.ru his material is about how to correctly calculate the average revenue from the user.  

About the difficulties of promoting mobile games and the importance of ratings in the App Store in his article on App2Top.ru Galina Divakova, a project manager at the Cliskky company, told us.  

 

Yesterday on Google Play, a year and a half after the release on the App Store, one of the main gaming phenomena of last year appeared – the Finnish PvP builder Clash of Clans.