Kabam, an American-Chinese publisher and developer of free-to-play games, reported revenue of more than $360 million last year.

BNDeNA, formed by DeNA and Namco Bandai in October 2011, will close this March. Cooperation between the two leaders of the Japanese market has not led to great results. 

We are starting the working weekday again with news about King. Yesterday’s rumors about the plans of the British company to sue the authors of The Banner Saga tactical strategy were confirmed.

Read about the conflict between the two segments of the gaming industry in the post of the App2Top editor.

Said “A”, say “B”. Or, if we draw a parallel with the mobile industry: I told you about the App Store, don’t forget about Google Play. So, all the latest information on changes in the free, paid and cash tops of Google Play USA.  

After a long break, we are resuming the weekly publication of the weekly gaming charts from Distimo. All the latest information on changes in the free, paid and cash tops of the USA. 

How much the localization of the game costs, why it is needed, how the translation of the game takes place — about this and much more in our interview with All Correct Localization.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga have little leadership in most of the world’s box office tops, now they are going to patent the words “candy” and “saga”. 

Svyaznoy and Euroset presented reports for 2013 on the tablet market in Russia. The figures vary slightly, but the general trend is the same: the market is in the stage of active growth.

“You are releasing a game on iOS. The chance of being featured is less than beating the casino. After the release, you will get to the 600-700 place and are unlikely to get more than a couple hundred installations in a month,” – about the experience of switching from the social market to the mobile market in an interview with CEO Nika Entertainment Maxim Slobodyanyuk. 

“People have less money“: based on the sales figures of mobile electronics, the head of Euroset, Alexander Malis, reports on the beginning of the consumer crisis in Russia.

What to learn from the authors of Candy Crush Saga, how much the mobile gaming market in Germany earned in 2013, how many smartphones Russians purchased last year – the answers to these and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week.  

The Chinese government has introduced its own operating system – China Operating System (COS). The new OS should compete with Android and iOS.

Yodo1, the publisher of Western games in the Chinese market, attracted 100 million users from China. In particular, the expansion of the user base was due to the release of Cut the Rope 2.

What to download this week from the App Store? Read about it in our note.

Ninja Metrics has announced the launch of Katana Social Analytics Engine. The new service will help developers identify the most important users of a mobile application by measuring the “social value” of each user.

This is 51% more than in 2012, according to a study by the domestic retailer Svyaznoy. 75% of the gadgets sold work on Android.