Every month Metacritic publishes the top ten games for iOS, according to the estimates of the English-language press. Which projects have become the best at the end of this August, read in our material.

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, today we are publishing the third part of his story on App2Top.

According to EA representatives, PvZ 2 has already been downloaded more than 25 million times, which exceeds the total number of downloads of the first part in the entire history of its existence.

When Russian users spend on mobile applications, what exactly Google has banned in the new rules for publishing apps, why it is necessary to focus on American moms in development – about this and much more in our weekly digest.

Downloads from the MIUI app store, embedded in Xiaomi‘s Android phone firmware, reached a billion a year after launch. According to Xiaomi, its store is among the five largest of the 200 available in China.

Drink “Crazy Beer” on your phone! 

The Wooga Jelly Splash game was released last week. Read below about why it is better monetized than Candy Crush Saga.

The change in Apple’s rating mechanism has raised the cost of an American user to a record high over the past two years.

The company has launched the Face Plus service, which allows developers to “animate” game characters. To do this, you just need to sit in front of the webcam so that the program can copy your facial expressions.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Martin Ma, Vice President of Strategy and Investment at Renren Games, told how to make a profit from games in China.

Supercell is confident that the release of a new title should be preceded by hundreds of hours of game time, which the developer himself will spend on it.

ESA found that three-quarters of moms in the U.S. spend their time playing video games. Moreover, 65% of mom gamers prefer to use mobile devices for games. 

The head of Unity, David Helgason, revealed some figures at the Unite 2013 conference in Vancouver. According to him, every second users of mobile devices install about 100 applications on the Unity engine, i.e. an average of 10 million per day.

Colleagues!Please tell me such free-play online games that would be: — based on synchronous dueling mechanics; — made in cartoon technique and would appeal to a wide audience.A small comment: for example, the Legend: The Legacy of Dragons — it is made on the basis of duels, but about magmars, elementals and other obscenities that disgust many; A cheerful farmer is cute and funny, but without duels.

The “lightweight” package costs four times less than the full version. All its key features for creating game models are preserved. 

The mobile version of the indie hit Terraria has finally appeared in the App Store. 

GameBrain has launched a beta version of a new platform to help independent developers.

Another news from Unity 2013. Facebook has launched a new SDK that solves a number of problems of porting Unity games to the social platform.

Unity will soon become a publisher of games, and will also launch its own cross-advertising grid.