The latest console game by Ron Gilbert, author of Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island, will be released on iOS this Thursday. 

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At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed Chris Williams, Vice President and CEO of Big Fish for Free-to-play.

After the announcement of Cut the Rope 2, we contacted Semyon Voynov, creative director of ZeptoLab, and asked a couple of questions regarding the future release.

  

Teemu Huuhtanen left Rovio to create his own studio – Next Games.

Interviews about the first indicators of Jungle Heat, secrets of advertising effectiveness by ROI, key features of the new OS from Amazon – this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

At the end of August, smartphones in Russia for the first time surpassed conventional mobile handsets in terms of the number of devices sold, Vedomosti reports with reference to the Svyaznoy, M.Video and Euroset networks. 

Appnext, a company engaged in the monetization of social app traffic, claims that from 10% to 30% of revenue to games is generated by embedded advertising. And developers should not forget about it, much less ignore it.

About this slogan was adopted on Facebook. The social network has announced work on updating an advertising algorithm designed to improve the relevance and quality of ads.

A domestic tool for collecting mobile analytics and advertising has appeared on the market – devtodev. 

The author of the Deconstructor of Fun blog has left the post of product manager at Supercell. His new place of work is the American Scopely.

 September 16, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Almost every day, every happy owner of an iPhone or iPod Touch takes pictures with it. And, of course, I always want these pictures to be good, and preferably also from the first time.

Microsoft Corporation plans to merge the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store into a single app store. 

It’s not long to wait for the appearance of one of the main games of 2012-2013 on Google Play. The Finns recently announced the launch of the Clash of Clans Android beta. 

A new Marsh Brothers game appeared on the App Store yesterday. Economic sim about the railway and locomotives – Pocket Trains. Our small review is just below.