The Austrian concern Koch Media acted as the buyer of the authors of the Galaxy on Fire series.

Capcom will spend the proceeds from Monster Hunter 4 to create an internal mobile game development studio.

There are currently two games from King in American grossing. Very soon they may be joined by a third – Papa Pear Saga.

How to deal with the shortage of ideas in the mobile market with the help of desktop games, the editors of App2Top reasoned.

Butlers in the usual sense have come to an end, according to Japanese market analyst Serkan Toto. JRPGs come in their place. 

Michael Schade announced the sale of Fishlabs. As a result of the deal, he and the second co-founder Christian Lohr will leave the company. The buyer’s name is still kept secret.

What is the secret of retaining midcore games, why Clash of Clans does not earn anything in China, how much did a loyal user cost in the USA a month ago – the answers to these and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week.

Two-thirds of developers consider the growing competition in app stores to be the main threat to the mobile industry.

GringoGames Studio provides you with a demo version of the Netrium game.An interesting arcade game will immerse you in a fascinating underwater world.

The Google Market selection includes 14 applications. We tried to analyze how these games showed themselves in the world store and how they deserved a feature from Google in Russia.

The Casual Gaming Association (CGA) has published a report on the gaming sector of the market, considering games for smartphones and tablets. The key provisions of the report can be read further in our material.

According to information from the Chinese store Wandoujia, which distributes software for Android, the success of Clash of Clans in China is not yet supported by financial indicators.

The lack of great competition in the Amazon store has given major brands the opportunity to strengthen their power there. Which Disney took advantage of.

In December 2013, Rockstar promises to release a port of the GTA: San Andreas criminal action on mobile devices. The game will be supplemented with new controls and improved graphics, as reported by the official website of the developers.

Strategy Analytics has published the results of a survey of 1,600 mobile app developers. More than 32% of respondents intend to support Windows Phone in 2014, which is 2 times higher than this year.

The authors of the latest research2guidance report drew attention to the potential of using cross-platform tools and provided relevant statistics, estimating the market at $2.4 billion.

A couple of weeks ago, we started publishing translations of articles by Mikhail Katkoff, product director at Scopely, about the mechanics of midcore games. Today is the second part, it’s about user retention.