Sega Corporation bought the independent studio Demiurge Studios, creators of the mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest. The amount of the transaction is not called.

As it traditionally happens at the end of the month, App Annie analysts summed up the results of the mobile games market of the previous month. We have an analysis of the report in Russian.

The company Leadbolt, which owns the marketing platform of the same name, has launched its own mobile video advertising network.

Shunji Oyama from Adinnovation told us about the formation of Japanese corporate ethics in the context of the work of advertising agencies and the current situation with the advertising of Nippon koku applications.

In the editorial office App2Top.ru a dispute broke out on the topic of whether the latest ZeptoLab – King of Thieves game is good. The “pro” and “contra” part is in our text-dialogue.

Marketing company DeltaDNA has launched a free game analytics service.

Today we turned to paid projects and talked, even if not about the latest, but about very worthy games, nurtured by a love of classics more than twenty years ago.

Recently, PlayTech acquired the authors of the GameMaker game engine for $ 16 million. Yesterday, our colleagues from Develop in connection with this transaction were interviewed by the former CEO of YoYo Games, Sandy Duncan. About the main points of the conversation – in our material.

Vkontakte has launched advertising in its own apps for iPhone and iPad. This became known from an announcement in the official VKontakte for Business community.

Los Angeles-based studio Firefly Games raised $8 million during investment round A. With the help of the money received, it will help Chinese mobile games appear on the American market.

Game designer Ethan Levy told the resource Pocketgamer.biz about what mistakes, in his opinion, were made in the recently released Midnight Star game at the monetization stage. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

The publishing division of Rovio has announced a game in the match-3 genre, close to the rules Farm Heroes Saga, but not devoid of innovative approaches in gameplay.

In the selection for Tuesday, we have two three-dimensional projects – one about the Chinese epic, the second about dogs.

Wargaming.net announced a cross-platform tactical card game based on its own World of Tanks project.

Ilya Eremeev, Creative Director of A-Steroids, spoke about working with the community at Winter Nights 2015. We are publishing a printed version of his report.

Nintendo’s first mobile project will be a mobile app, not a game.

The conference on the development and promotion of mobile games, held on February 9-10 in St. Petersburg, was attended by a record number of participants for the event.

Today we have three good projects in our selection: Daytona Rush, Bob’s Space Adventure and Eyez.