At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, the executive director of FishLabs, Michael Schade, spoke about whether it is worth porting console games to mobile platforms.

In six days since the launch of Jelly Splash on iPhone and iPad, the game has been downloaded more than 1 million times. This is the best result in the entire history of Wooga.

The new rules for publishing applications prohibit advertising in notifications, and also prohibit encouraging users with virtual currency for rating. 

Qihoo 360, which owns one of China’s largest Android app stores, earned almost $152 million in the second quarter.

Creator of Where’s My Water? Tim Fitz Randolph posted on Twitter a photo of a cookie with the logo of the game and the number two. Now the network is wondering what this could mean. 

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, today we are publishing the second part of his story on App2Top.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Vice President of the American division of Gamevil, Kyu Lee, spoke about the differences between the western and eastern mobile application markets.

Interesting material has appeared on Gamasutra dedicated to small consoles running on the Android operating system. We present a brief retelling of it in Russian.

The peak of mobile and media sales in the Russian Federation falls on the periods from eight to nine in the evening and from one to two in the morning.

Last week – the first information about Winter Nights 2014 appeared; the volumes of the US mobile gaming market for July became known; Japanese studios opposed the monopoly of GREE and DeNA; Big Fish closed a studio in Vancouver, as well as much more.  

According to Nikkei, a Japanese daily publication devoted to business issues, Kabam has become a partner of KLab, the developer of the Lord of the Dragons card butler.

Riot has not yet made an official statement, but it is likely that smartphone and tablet owners will be able to try out LoL on their devices.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will leave his post within the next 12 months. 

Microsoft’s mobile platform was the second most common in Latin America, according to IDC.

The domestic company Alawar recently announced the imminent release of its Shake Spears game! as part of the Japanese social platform LINE.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, a round table dedicated to local mobile game markets was held, which was attended by representatives of App Annie, Gamevil, Renren Games, FDG and Nevosoft.

The library of games for the Gamepop console will be replenished with titles TinyCo, Animoca, Game Circus, Creative Mobile and the domestic company Nevosoft.

“Whales” are young men who spend a lot of time playing console games. Unexpectedly, yes. 

San Francisco-based startup Kamcord has already raised over $1.5 million to develop an SDK that allows users to record and upload videos of their gaming exploits.