How much Minecraft developers have earned on the mobile version of the game, which applications are the most popular on the App Store, data from the latest Fiksu report and why testing is so necessary for the “game as a service” – read our news digest for the holidays.

BlueStacks, which announced two weeks ago that the number of users of its eponymous service has reached 10 million, announced an Android-based gaming console called Gamepop and a subscription gaming service going to it. 

The number of Fruit Ninja downloads has surpassed the 500 million mark. Moreover, 200 million of them were in China. 

The phrase “games are a service” is already perceived as a banality today. But when developing, it often happens that developers forget about it. And they continue to work with the game as an end product. 

Havok, a company specializing in middleware development, has announced that support for the upcoming Tizen OS has been added to its Projet Anarchy toolkit.

Zynga has announced the release of its own endless runner Running With Friends for iOS. This is the company’s seventh product released under the With Friends brand. About the chips of the project and its first results on the market, read our material.

Electronic Arts company published a press release yesterday, in which it shared the results of its work for the first quarter of 2013. The company’s profit amounted to $1.04 billion, while the mobile application segment accounted for $104 million.

In the UK alone, children spend about £31 million of parental money per month on unauthorized purchases and IAP, The Guardian reports in its research conducted jointly with Microsoft.

The new game from Betaworks One has managed to enter the top 5 free downloads in 19 countries in a week since its release, and the number of its downloads has crossed the 1 million mark. Read more about the project and its achievements in our material.

Warner Bros. announced the creation of a new game studio in San Francisco. It was headed by former Glu Mobile boss Greg Ballard. The studio will create mobile free-to-play projects. In his interview with GamesIndustry International, Ballard talked about her plans.

comScore analysts presented the latest data on the distribution of vendor and mobile OS shares in the US smartphone market.

Recently, the Japanese company GungHo and its mega-hit Puzzle & Dragons have been constantly appearing in the headlines of news feeds. Yesterday Gamesindustry.biz published an interview with Kazuki Morishita, president of the company, in which he shared some secrets of success. 

The authors of Kingdoms of Camelot have created a second office in Europe. This time in the very center of it, in the capital of Germany – Berlin. 

Apple is going to tighten the “infamous” article 2.25 of the rules for using the Apple App Store. Thus, the struggle of the giant from Cupertino with recommendation services has entered a new phase.

How many types of advertising there are in total and which of them proved to be the most effective in the first quarter of 2013, the research company AppsFlyer said in its report. We offer a short version of it in Russian. 

Last March, the number of downloads decreased, according to Fiksu. However, the price of a loyal user after the February fall, on the contrary, increased. 

In recent weeks, Disney has been under constant fire from network critics. The reason is simple. Mickey Mouse closed the iconic Lucas Arts, and with it a couple of potentially strong projects based on Star Wars. As it turned out, they criticized in vain. 

Not a day goes by without news from Amazon. The Israeli company PlayScape yesterday, on the sixth of May, announced a partnership with the American platform. As part of the collaboration, she is going to publish a number of her projects on the Amazon Appstore.