How much does it cost to develop a console game, why they don’t pay off, and also once again about why free-to-play (whether we want it or not) is the future, in our material.

Square Enix breaks traditions. The company published the sixth part of Final Fantasy on Google Play before the release on the App Store. 

According to the results of last year, digital sales of games in the United States went twice ahead of retail, according to SuperData.

Counting clones of Clash of Clans is pointless now. They come out on mobile markets almost every day. However, it makes sense to take a closer look at some of them.

The upcoming conference will feature presentations by Apple iOS 7, King, Gameloft, DeNA, Rovio, Warner Bros. and many others. Also, 1 million rubles will be raffled among game developers.

The average application development time for iOS and WP platforms is longer than for Android, experts from Evans Data assure in the latest report.

Thanks to the growth of the mobile and online games market, the total revenue of the gaming industry could reach a shocking $100 billion in three years, according to Digi-Capital.

The Finnish-Singaporean studio, founded by immigrants from Wooga and Nokia and raised $2.9 million last spring, is launching a hexagonal online RTS for iOS this week.

The German market is the largest in Europe, Newzoo reported. In 2013, its gamers spent $4.1 billion on games, $595 million of which fell on the mobile sector.

Due to the specifics of one of the Google Play algorithms, Turkish users massively give one star to good applications, while leaving a positive review.

Get Set Games has launched Mega Jump 2. The continuation of the legendary arcade is already available in New Zealand. On January 16, there will be a worldwide release in the App Store.

Pixel Licker Games company is going to reboot its Slayin project in the near future. 

Starting from the 2014 fiscal year, which will begin only next April, EA plans to launch all its mobile titles in China through one of its external companies – PopCap China.

The average number of gaming sessions per mobile device increased by 66% over the year, according to Flurry analysts. However, in terms of growth rates, they have seriously lagged behind the dynamics of the market as a whole. 

Before the New Year, we interviewed our industry colleagues about what, in their opinion, happened to the market and to them this year. This article contains all fifteen mini-interviews that we managed to get before and after the holidays.

At the moment, Candy Crush Saga tops the box office tops in 50 countries. What should mobile developers who want to achieve comparable success take into account, the HasOffers strategist told.

We wrote the other day that the App Store earned $1 billion in the last December. Analysts from Azimco shared the figures for January and demonstrated the dynamics of payments since 2011.