They are officially licensed by King to be produced by Dylan’s Candy Bar confectionery. Already in the States, a box of Candy Crush Saga candies can be purchased for $ 4.

Along with the slowdown in the popularity of Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo sales began to fall. This does not frighten the Japanese company. She has already brought a new hit to the market.

This opinion was expressed by the head of the holding “Western European Financial Union” Maxim Dolgopolov.

The key features of midcore games, why Fishlabs went bankrupt, when Line is going to the stock exchange, what are the volumes of the mobile games market – about this and much more in our weekly digest. 

According to IDC, global shipments of tablet devices increased to 47.6 million in the third quarter of 2013. This indicates a 7% increase compared to the figures of the previous quarter and 36% compared to the figures for the same quarter last year.  And again, the bulk of deliveries are accounted for by Android tablets.

One of the leaders of the Runet Mail.ru The Group and the world-renowned research company Nielsen Holdings N.V. conducted a joint analysis of the mobile industry in Russia and the world.

App Annie employees have published the results of the latest App Annie Market Index report for the third quarter of 2013. The document compares in detail the revenues and the number of downloaded mobile programs in various countries, stores and categories.

During the discussion, moderated by Martin Rae, President of the Academy Of Interactive Arts, four major venture capitalists spoke about their vision of the future of the gaming industry. This is told by GamesIndustry.

Europe’s key event in the mobile gaming industry is gaining momentum. As part of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference (February 7-8, 2014, St. Petersburg), a competition for mobile game developers WN Mobile Games Competition will be held. The main prize is $30,000.

Applift and Newzoo spoke about the current state of the mobile games market and what awaits it in the next three years.

At the GamesBeat 2013 conference currently taking place in California, Kristian Segarstrale, a member of the board of Supercell and one of the founders of Playfish, said that at the moment there is no need for publishers in the mobile market.

Pocket Gamer released funny material in which our colleague John Jordan, commenting on EA’s far from brilliant quarterly results, claims that the gaming giant should have bought a couple of years ago, not PopCap at all.

The cross-content promotion model is becoming increasingly popular on the mobile market (this is when the characters of one project appear in another). Next up is the collaboration between GungHo and Warner Bros.