At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed Ed Laws from InMobi.

The domestic company Game Insight announced the Live Mobile program! European mobile congress and informed about the participants of the event.

Yesterday Distimo presented the Top Global Apps report for September. According to the figures given in it, revenue from Google Play has grown significantly over the past six months. 

In three years, the Istanbul-based gaming startup has raised $30 million, and the total number of its daily users (DAU) across all platforms has reached almost 12 million.

In an interview with PocketGamer, Wooga’s CEO Jens Begemann admitted that 50% of the company’s revenue still comes from Facebook.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed Pepe Agell from Chartboost.

Finnish developers have presented a mobile racing free-to-play game that looks like Mario Kart.

The head of Microsoft’s game studios, Phil Spencer, claims that the future of video games lies in the plane of cross-platform entertainment. The manager expressed his point of view in an interview with the Australian website Ausgamers. 

The company Wadjet Eye Games, which helped to publish the cyberpunk quest Gemini Rue, is going to release the game Blackwell Epiphany on iOS devices. Her game designer Dave Gilbert told the Examiner about this in an interview.

The Russian company i-Free presented the speakers of the 10th Mobile VAS & Apps Conference, and also announced the completion of preferential registration for the event.

Last week, it became known about the plans of the Japanese company Square Enix to transfer eight parts of Dragon Quest to a mobile platform. Yesterday, the first details about one of the future releases appeared.

Japanese telecommunications company Softbank has acquired a 51% stake in Supercell for a huge sum of $ 1.5 billion.

Last weekend, Marvel announced that the worldwide release of the endless runner Marvel Run Jump Smash! is just around the corner.

The founder of Player Research, Graham McAllister, believes that in most cases the reason for poor monetization is not the chosen business model, but the quality of the game.

The authors of Kingdoms of Camelot and Dragons of Atlantis have announced that they are working together with Universal Pictures on the next game adaptation of the film “Fast and Furious”.

Analysts at Frank N. Magid Associates compared the penetration of games in the US and Chinese markets. As it turned out, in China this parameter reached a whopping 84%, while in America it was only 69%.

Startup Space Ape Games shared its first successes: their game Samurai Siege earns about $ 50 thousand a day with a DAU of 200 thousand users. 

About the changes in the Japanese mobile games market, the secrets of F2P development, Finnish developers and much more – in our traditional selection of the best materials of last week. 

Warner Bros. successfully develops a niche for supporting its console projects with mobile releases.