Links to the most relevant materials of the industrial press on Thursday, March 20.

A joint report by Upsight (then Kontagent + PlayHaven) and Nival at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

The authors of the game series The Room told how much they spent and how much they earned on their games.

A year after the announcement of World of Tanks, Blitz has finally reached the status of a closed beta version for iOS.

The once very popular search engine and mail service Yahoo! Announced the creation of the Yahoo! gaming distribution network Games Network. 

Following Epic Games, Crytek, the company that developed CryEngine, announced a change in monetization policy (with its help, games such as Crysis and Warface were created).

In San Francisco, Epic Games announced a change in the Unreal Engine 4 monetization model . Starting today, access to the code of one of the leading game engines costs $19 per month.

Links to the most relevant materials in our digest of the industrial press for Wednesday, March 19.

A report by Olivier Bernard from App Annie at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

At the GDC 2014 conference currently taking place in San Francisco, the authors of Jetpack Joyride presented a game about a bear and art galleries. 

Last week Pocket Gems celebrated the birthday of its leading title – time manager Tap Paradise Cove. In honor of this event, the CEO of the company Ben Liu shared the secrets of the success of the project on the pages of Gamasutra.

At the GDC conference, Flurry demonstrated a “loyalty matrix” for mobile games, which was built on the basis of user behavior in 1,382 top Android projects. 

Unity has introduced the fifth version of the game engine of the same name in San Francisco.

The search giant Google reports that the Android gaming hub will soon receive as many as 18 “new things”.

In December 2013, Kontagent and PlayHaven merged. A few months later, this conglomerate of monetization and analytical services finally got a new name – Upsight.

Mail.Ru The Group received a controlling stake in the social network VKontakte. 

The authors of Clash of Clans and Hay Day have opened an office in one of the most expensive districts of Seoul – Gangnam (aka Gangnam).

“Anger is a very strong emotion,” Florian Steinhoff, Chief Product Officer at Wooga, began his speech at the GDC 2014 currently taking place in San Francisco.

Kontagent+PlayHaven has finally decided on the name; Twitch can already be tested in Asphalt 8; new functionality has appeared in Google Play Games – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Monday, March 17.