Two years after buying Nokia’s device manufacturing business and its patent portfolio for $7.2 billion, Microsoft is selling the business of simple mobile phones and all its assets to Taiwanese and Finnish companies for $350 million.

Recently, the time for reviewing applications in the App Store has been reduced to 1-2 days. Eric Seufert from Rovio explained what caused this.

The ChilliConnect backend and analytical platform for online and multiplatform games has reached a full release.

The publisher of The Secret Society and Hidden City reported that the company’s total revenue from games in the genre “I’m looking for” (hidden object) has surpassed the $100 million mark.

Google is discussing the possibility of stopping Flash playback by default. If the company does this, any Flash content before playback will ask the user if he gives permission for this. We talked to market experts about how this could affect the social gaming segment.

The annual total revenue of the App Store and Google Play from games in Japan is significantly more than in the United States, despite the fact that America is ahead in downloads.

Which games were named the most popular for the entire existence of Google Play, who gets 94% of the revenue of the American App Store, why Odnoklassniki needs its own showcase with streams – in our weekly selection of the main materials of the week.

Search giant Google is thinking about the possibility to stop playing Flash by default in Google Chrome.

The Japanese company SoftBank, which owns 73% of the Clash of Clans developer studio, is considering selling its stake.

The second day of the seventeenth DevGAMM conference is taking place in Moscow today. An online broadcast organized by Microsoft as part of the developer channelChannel9, you can watch it here.

A showcase for video game broadcasts has appeared on the Odnoklassniki social network.

The monthly income of the developers of Walking War Robots, which was $255 thousand back in August 2015, reached $1.3 million last April.

Last month, more than 1 million people used the gadget from Oculus VR and Samsung – Gear VR virtual reality glasses.

By the end of this year, the Summoners Wars battler can get as close as possible to the billionaire games club in terms of revenue.

Recently officially announced for mobile devices, the mobile versions of the Nintendo console hits Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing will be shareware projects.

Which games were the most downloaded and the most profitable for the entire existence of Google Play, – the analytical company App Annie told in its latest research.

The 17th DevGAMM conference starts in Moscow today. An online broadcast organized by Microsoft as part of the developer channelChannel9, you can watch it here.

Firaxis has announced the sixth part of the cult turn-based strategy game Civilization.

Among all categories of mobile applications, games show the lowest median conversion from viewing the game page to downloads, as well as the largest discrepancy between the maximum and minimum values.