Mikhail Katkoff, who recently left Supercell, shared his thoughts on why Plants vs. Zombies 2 is an unsuccessful project for PopCap and EA in his blog.

Today, the Russian search engine announced the launch of its own free analytical service created for mobile application developers.

How much can a Clash of Clans clone earn, who is now on the crest of success in stores, whether it is necessary to cooperate with Kakao in Korea – about this and much more in the selection of the best materials for the past week. 

Pocket Gamer has some interesting material from our colleague Matthew Diener about what can wait for Canada after BlackBerry leaves the mobile market. We couldn’t resist and translated the article.

At the end of September, devtodev, a domestic tool for collecting mobile analytics and advertising, appeared on the market. We contacted Dmitry Kravtsov, the CEO of the service, and asked him about how the work on devtodev began, how it differs from foreign analogues and what the startup has in common with IMI.VC .

Several indie game developers have teamed up to release the Game Bundle under the Thumb Arcade wing – a collection of 10 games for iOS.

Former Zynga employee Todd Arnold has become the head of the growing games division of Tango, a mobile messaging service.

At the beginning of the week we wrote about the rapid rise of Samurai Siege, a successful clone of the Finnish Clash of Clans. Today, new data has appeared on the daily revenue of the application, as well as how, in the opinion of the developers themselves, their project is seriously different from the Supercell product.

At the RIW-2013 Moscow conference dedicated to the Russian Internet, VKontakte representative Alexander Kruglov announced the launch of closed testing of the site’s advertising network vk.com .

In early October, 2020: My Country was released in South Korea with the support of Kakao. In connection with the release, we contacted Daria Trushkina, Vice president of business Development at Game Insight, who spoke about her experience working with Kakao and the Korean market.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed Martin Ma from RenRen Games.

Chinese studio Rekoo has announced that it is opening a European office in east London on the territory of a special British technopark Tech City. This is reported by Pocketgamer. Rekoo is the first Chinese company that is going to open a representative office in the park.

Does Kakao’s support increase box office figures in South Korea? App2Top was being analyzed, inspired by the Pocket Gamer material. 

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According to a new study by Forrester Research, most smartphone users ignore the ads embedded in the programs. Analysts came to this conclusion after interviewing 60 thousand respondents.

Since October 16, advertising banners have appeared in the mobile version of Odnoklassniki and the mobile application of the same name, Vedomosti reports.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed Ed Laws from InMobi.