In this material we have collected all the lectures and presentations of the Winter Nights conference held in February.

Quite recently, a team of indie developers made a logic game “PolyWars” and decided to show it to the whole world by posting this free app on Google Play.What is “PolyWars”?PolyWars is an exciting puzzle game with special game cells on the playing field for two rivals.

App Annie company announced that it has started indexing applications for Windows 8 devices. So far, however, the functionality is in beta stage. 

How much will games earn in China by the end of the year? Who topped the box office tops of the App Store and Google Play in March? How did Twitter become a gaming platform? About this and much more in our weekly digest. 

A couple of weeks ago, industry veterans from Disney founded the startup Hyper Hippo, which develops games for children. The team started creating projects with an exciting plot.

The results of a study conducted by Animoca, a company specializing in the development and publication of mobile games for Android, show that four of the five most used tablets have 7-inch screens. 

Glow Hockey 3D is a dynamic and modern version of time-tested hits – Air hockey. Pong, Multiponk and Arkanoid. Android is the first of the mobile platforms on which the game is already available for download – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.iddqd .gh3d

Recently, acquaintances and friends have been repeating the mantra “It’s time to go” like enchanted.

In the mobile business today, one of the main components of success is the monitoring of statistical data. Numerous mobile services allow you to literally keep your finger on the pulse of the player, track what he is interested in and what is not.

Electronic Arts unexpectedly announced mass layoffs at EA Mobile Montreal, which was developing games for smartphones and tablets. 

At GDC 2013, PocketGamer portal published its annual top 50 mobile game developers. As it turned out the other day, almost a quarter of the teams from this list work on Cocos2D-x. 

At the Winter Nights conference, Marianna Polyakova, Director of Product Management at PlayFirst, answered several questions to our editorial staff. The interview was conducted in English.

ZeptoLab has announced Cut the Rope: Time Travel, the third part of the adventures of Am Nyam. However, there is no detailed information about the project yet.

According to According to the British Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), mobile advertising spending in the United Kingdom in 2012 increased by 148% compared to the previous year and amounted to £526 million.

The Twitter service has added “deep links” (deep-links), which allow developers to link certain game events to tweets. There is an opinion that this innovation has made Twitter a full-fledged platform for the distribution of games.

Digi-Capital analysts claim that 65% of all investments in the gaming industry in the first quarter of 2013 were in the mobile segment.  

On June 4 and 5, Moscow will host the IX International Business Forum “The World of Mobile Content • MoSO 2013”. The forum will discuss trends in the mobile content market, mobile commerce, mobile applications in the B2B segment, and long-term strategies of market players. 

On May 17-18, a conference “AINL 2013: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language” will be held in St. Petersburg, dedicated, among other things, to the development and use of intelligent linguistic systems.