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. 

The number of Puzzle & Dragons users continues to grow, but this applies only to Japan. Its downloads in the US do not show significant results, and revenues are falling. 

Chris Williams, vice president and general manager for Free-to-Play at Big Fish, answered several questions about the development of f2p projects at the Winter Nights conference. The interview was conducted in English.

Last fall, Zynga acquired November Software studio, and recently revealed details about its first project – action/ RPG Battlestone for mobile devices based on iOS and Android.

The lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Jake Solomon from Firaxis Games, admitted that the company is seriously considering the possibility of transferring Civilization V to mobile devices running iOS.

The turnover of mobile advertising in the United States by the end of 2013 will amount to $7.29 billion. More than half of this amount will fall on Google, according to Emarketer.

Today the game “Hypnosis” was released on iOS. This is a big and bright quest that the internal studio of Nevosoft has been working on for more than two years. Alexey Serebrov, Director of the Nevosoft Development Department, told us about the stages of development, mistakes and victories.  

Ed Rumley, Executive Director of Chillingo, answered a number of questions about the features of publishing and monetization of games on various platforms to the editors of App2Top during the Winter Nights conference. The interview was conducted in English.

British indie studio Another Place Productions has started developing a mobile version of the “physical” fighting game Rag Doll Kung Fu.

Distimo company told about which applications according to the results of last March topped the world tops of free applications, paid applications and cash applications. 

In the first quarter of 2013, the number of total downloads of the four leading stores crossed the mark of 13.4 billion, the analytical company Canalys reported. 

In four days of sales, Russian retailers managed to sell only 300 Surface devices.

The Israeli Golden Fingers team, with the help of the Indiegogo crowdfunding service, has started raising funds necessary for marketing and advertising its WriteOn mobile game!

Sony Corporation allowed to connect the DUALSHOCK 3 from the PlayStation 3 to its own Android smartphones of the Xperia series. 

In his interview, Ville Heijari, senior vice president of brand marketing at Rovio, told us about the merger of franchises. The conversation was held in English as part of the Winter Nights conference.

The mobile social gaming platform Heyzap has announced that it has added an option to its payment system that allows accepting payments and making payments in the virtual currency Bitcoins. 

Kabam has created a $50 million fund designed to help Japanese developers enter the Western market. Why is it an American company and Japanese developers, the editors of App2Top understood.

The revenue of the mobile gaming industry in China by the end of 2013 will be about $ 1.3 billion, according to CocoaChina. However, this will not make it easier for Western companies to work on it.