Two weeks ago it became known that Behind Studios, the developer of Knights of Pen & Paper, launched a fundraising campaign for a new game – Chroma Squad – on Kickstarter.

Not so long ago, ESA (Entertainment Software Associations) published another report on the state of the US gaming industry.  There was also something about the mobile market.

The authors of Kingdoms of Camelot and Fast & Furious 6 ported one of their main Facebook projects to iOS: the Dragons of Atlantis strategy.

The head of Keen flare calls the success of the release of the game Royal Revolt! for devices on the Windows 8 platform, phenomenal: in just 2 months, the game was downloaded 750 thousand times on Windows Phone alone.

The SessionM marketing grid presented its latest Power Player Report for the second quarter of 2013, in which the company for the first time investigated exclusively gaming mobile applications.

Yulia Palatovskaya and Tatiana Tymoshenko from G5 Entertainment at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference told how to monetize emotions in free-to-play games.

The other day, Zynga announced that it was closing almost all assets related to OMGPOP, which it bought a year ago.

The Chinese publisher Yodo1, which previously actively helped Western companies to enter the mobile market of China, will soon begin releasing projects on the global market.

In the wake of the box office success of Match-3, EA decided to invest in the development of its main casual IP – in Tetris.

Every month M etacritic publishes the top ten games for iOS, according to the estimates of the English-language press. Which projects became the best at the end of July – read in our material.

After the closure of Impossible Studios, which worked on Infinity Blade: Dungeons, no specific information was received about the future of the series. However, interesting details have appeared recently.

Ivan Bely from Marmalade at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference spoke in his report about porting projects to “all the variety of mobile platforms”.

The first mobile results of Pet Rescue Saga, about the success of Google Play gaming services, a story about how Wooga conducts prototyping – this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

Chartboost has published an interactive global “heatmap” that displays installation prices (CPI) for iOS and Android by country. There you can also find a CPI chart comparing the average cost of applications for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android.

One of the main box office projects of recent times, the Finnish game Clash of Clans, turned one year old last Friday since its worldwide release. We decided to see what he had managed to achieve during this time. 

The other day, the release of the closed beta PlayHaven Push Notifications program took place. The main feature of the service is the ability to send customized notifications to users.

The French company Pretty Simple Games has announced its plans to port Criminal Case to the Apple mobile platform.

Japanese developer GungHo has finally revealed the download statistics of his super hit in North America.

A list of conferences related to the mobile gaming industry, which will be held this August.