Amazon came up with an interesting strategy to expand the library of games in its own app store: the company began making “cold calls” to successful developers of projects for Google Play. 

After the successful launch of the budget Star Wars Force Collection, Disney decided to release another card battler for the popular universe. 

The annual revenue of the French publishing house increased by 12% compared to 2012. Most of the sales – 33% – came from EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).

This is 13% more than the company earned in the same quarter a year ago. The main sales driver was The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

Supercell and King have captured the free and cash tops of Google Play, and in the paid one you can find far more than one game two years (or more) ago – this and much more in the weekly review of the American Google Play games market.

Flappy Bird is the leader of the US free chart, Joe Danger Infinity knocked out a place in the paid top with a discount, King has three games in the box office top ten – this and much more in the weekly review of the American App Store games market.

If in January 2012 the average cost of an installation in the States was $1.30, then in December 2013 it reached $4.36, Superdata said.

The main revenue of one of the largest casual game development companies came from completely non-criminal titles – Big Fish Casino and Fairway Solitaire.

Facebook ‘s Director of partner projects , Julien Codorgnu , said in an interview Forbes.ru what you need to do to make the game a hit.

Geo-location advertising services will become more relevant in the near future. According to BIA/Kelsey, the technologies are already ready for mass use. By 2017, the cost of this type of advertising will exceed $10.8 billion.

The executive director of King responded in detail to all the claims made last week to the British company.

While some studios are trying to launch an IPO, others are attracting private capital. Shanda Games (whose shares are listed on NASDAQ) has announced an offer to transform into a closed company.

From August 2012 to August 2013, the number of monthly active users of games in China increased almost fivefold, according to the Chinese analytical service Umeng and the company ChinaJoy.

CSR and Clumsy Ninja publishers told what they focus on when developing and launching mobile projects.

Anders Drachen, the main author of Game Analytics, decided to turn to what is analytics in the gaming industry. He proposed 12 steps to build a work with such information. Which ones? Read in the material.

About the imminent consumer crisis in Russia, the conflict between the “big” and “small” industries, the Indian mobile games market and the results of the latest Distimo study – in our traditional digest for last week. 

At the beginning of 2013, one of the most obvious trends was the growth of Asian markets. Today, this is no longer a trend, but a given. Distimo told about the dynamics of Asian dragons over the past year.