The authors of Candy Crush and Bubble Witch reported to investors last year. Despite the release of Candy Crush Soda Saga and aggressive advertising during the Christmas season, the British continue to lose paying users.

The British publisher and developer King has acquired the Z2Live game studio in the USA. This is the first studio bought by the company in America.

Apple has increased the size limit of downloaded games and apps from 2GB to 4GB. This happened for the first time since the launch of the App Store.

A selection of paid games without micropayments has appeared in the American App Store.

A new day, new releases. This time there are three projects in our networks. Everyone, at least, deserves attention.

Last year was extremely successful for the Korean company. Gamevil’s annual revenues for the first time overcame the psychological mark of $ 100 million, its profit amounted to $20.6 million.

At the Winter Nights 2015 conference that just ended, we took a short interview with the author of the Siberia dilogy, Benoît Sokal.

The advertising of the Heroes Charge game from uCool at the 2015 Super Bowl helped the company get an influx of new users – despite the fact that it turned out to be the most unpopular according to audience surveys.

Today there are three projects in the selection. There’s even chess.

According to Newzoo, Minecraft is number one in the ranking of the most popular titles on YouTube.

Success in the entertainment industry is always difficult to predict. The reason is that an unpredictable and extremely complex network of social influences plays a dominant role in it. Investors struggle with this in a very obvious way: by investing in a wide portfolio of projects.

The number of mobile ad views in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC countries) increased by 90% compared to the previous year and amounts to 84 billion per month. This was reported by Venturebeat resource with reference to its own research of the Glispa marketing agency.

Our colleagues from Gamezebo have discovered under which account ZeptoLab software finishes its projects. Thanks to this, it turned out that the games can soon be expected from the Moscow company.

Com2uS’ operating income increased by 1209% compared to the previous year and amounted to about $93.1 million, – the Venturebeat resource reports with reference to the company’s published financial results for 2014.

The Finnish studio Almost Human in its blog published a video with the gameplay of the iPad version of Legend of Grimrock.

The Korean company Gamevil will release PC games from two local studios, Dragonfly Games and Ginno Games, on mobile devices.

We missed the beginning of the week due to the conference, now we will catch up a little. So, let’s remember in a nutshell what we had last week and move on.

So, the second day of the “Winter Nights” begins. Just like yesterday, we are going to broadcast!