EA earned $90 million on mobile games in three months, the company said in its financial report for the first quarter of 2014.

Auroch Digital together with Games Workshop will release a mobile version of the 1987 board game Chainsaw Warrior. It will be possible to go in search of the source of evil in zombie-infested New York this summer.

While Firefox OS is trying to conquer the world with budget devices, Sailfish OS is receiving support from Chinese manufacturers, and Tizen is hiding behind Samsung – Canonical is raising money for the first smartphone using crowdfunding.

The postponement of a number of game releases cost the largest Chinese social network losses of $29 million, as well as sales, 10% less than expected.

Chris Williams, Vice President and CEO of Big Fish for Free-to-play, revealed 5 major mistakes in the development of shareware games at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

Tim Shafer continues to spend the money collected on Kickstarter last year on creating projects that are not related to quests. 

 

Rovio has announced the global launch of the Rovio Account cross-platform service, which was launched this spring on iOS and Android.

The main innovation of Unity 4.2 is support for Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10. The developers also announced the appearance of deferred shading in the mobile version of the engine.

Do you like to think with your head? We present to your attention a new iOS application where you will need all your vocabulary and excellent erudition.

The next meeting of the St. Petersburg Applications Club will take place this Thursday in St. Petersburg. Its participants will discuss the interfaces of mobile applications.

Video from the round table at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, where representatives of Big Fish, FishLabs and Nival figured out what casual, midcore and hardcore games are.

Rovio announced Angry Birds Star Wars 2, Kabam was valued at $700 million, Clash of Clans got into the top 3 of Japanese grossing, I-Free talked about the Chinese market – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

Tired of guessing words? Guess the sounds! Each task is 4 photos and 1 sound.

Thomas Hertzler, founder of Blue Byte and creator of The Settlers series of games, is returning to the gaming industry with a new company Stratotainment. The first item on Herzler’s agenda is to restart Battle Isle.

At the international Comic Con festival in San Diego, it became known about the unexpected alliance of the seller of collectibles QMx and the developer of mobile games Spark Plug Games. The companies joined forces to create Firefly Online, an MMO for iOS and Android.

The endless runner based on the cartoon of the same name (more precisely, its second part, which will be released in Russia only on August 15) shows excellent results around the world. 

KSK-SOFT has completed the first stage of software development to search for existing tenders on existing electronic trading platforms for certain parameters/queries.

Monster Mind is a colorful logic puzzle based on the famous board game Mastermind and its “school” version — the game Bulls and Cows. The player’s goal is to pick up or guess a sequence of animated images of monsters in several attempts, analyzing hints and making rational conclusions from previous attempts. Despite its sufficient simplicity, in comparison with modern 3D games produced by large companies, the game turned out to be extremely fascinating, addictive,…