One of the world’s largest messengers has announced plans to enter the stock market relatively soon. 

Last week we counted the volumes of the Russian mobile application market, reflected on what the ideal icon for the game would be, interviewed devtodev, AppTools, Odnoklassniki, Alawar and many others. About all this – in our traditional selection for the past week. 

The British Marmalade has announced the creation of the publishing division Marmalade Play. Its main goal, according to the official press release, is to help developers “get into the mobile market painlessly.”

Telltale Games has announced that its latest title The Wolf Among Us will be ported to iOS this fall. The company also pleased the owners of Sony Vita, who will also be able to install the game on their devices.

On the last day of Kiev Casual Connect, we caught Mo Yang and Yamamoto Aki from DeNA and asked them about the Japanese market. 

The company Alawar recently published the game Heroes War in Russian (in domestic markets – “Gangs: Kings of the streets”) from Com2uS. In connection with the recent release, we interviewed the Novosibirsk team and asked about cooperation with the Koreans.

The other day Supermagical, an arcade game from Super Mega Team, migrated from the category of free-to-play apps to premium on the App Store.

The losses of the social company over the past three months amounted to an “insignificant” amount of $ 68 thousand. This may well be called a breakthrough, given that over the same period last year, Zynga lost more than $ 52 million.

While the studio is looking for investors, 25 employees have lost their jobs. This measure has become necessary to reduce costs, in theory, it will help the studio to continue its work.

App Annie Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa Olivier Bernard said in an interview with our correspondents at Casual Connect Kyiv that an App Annie office will open in Moscow in the foreseeable future. 

At Casual Connect Kyiv, we talked about the gaming market with Jared Guthmiller from WildTangent.

At the Casual Connect conference currently taking place in Kiev, we caught Big Fish producer Anna Rix and asked her about the event and the casual industry in general.

The Tokyo-based company Colopl recently celebrated two achievements. Firstly, the firm managed to overtake DeNA in terms of market capitalization, reaching an estimate of $3.4 billion. Secondly, it has increased the base of the Wizard & Wiz the Black Cat role-playing game to 10 million people, as analyst Serkan Toto writes in his blog.

The PlayHaven platform continues to thrive, according to a recent post by Venture Beat. Representatives of the company have released some information about their activities, according to which PlayHaven is working with 10 thousand developers on 20 thousand games.

Today, the continuation of one of the most high–profile releases of last year, Dead Trigger 2, was released on the App Store and Google Play.

The icon also sells. Depending on what is on it and how it is drawn, the user decides whether to click on it or not, to see if the application is worthy of him. The question is, are there 100% working rules regarding icons?

The other day, the continuation of the tactical turn–based strategy “about airplanes” from the creator of Civilizations – Sid Meyer was announced.