The once very popular search engine and mail service Yahoo! Announced the creation of the Yahoo! gaming distribution network Games Network. 

Following Epic Games, Crytek, the company that developed CryEngine, announced a change in monetization policy (with its help, games such as Crysis and Warface were created).

In San Francisco, Epic Games announced a change in the Unreal Engine 4 monetization model . Starting today, access to the code of one of the leading game engines costs $19 per month.

At the GDC conference, Flurry demonstrated a “loyalty matrix” for mobile games, which was built on the basis of user behavior in 1,382 top Android projects. 

Unity has introduced the fifth version of the game engine of the same name in San Francisco.

The authors of Clash of Clans and Hay Day have opened an office in one of the most expensive districts of Seoul – Gangnam (aka Gangnam).

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, 2.48 million devices were sold in Russia, and last year Russians purchased 8.58 million tablets,” IDC reports.

The studio that created Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and Bejeweled has laid off 30 employees. 

According to the latest data for 2013, there are more than 700 million smartphones in China, according to the Chinese analytical company Umeng. 

Unity has acquired the authors of the Everyplay service, which allows you to record the gameplay in mobile games, the reaction to user events using the front camera, as well as embed video ads.

On the pages of the March issue of Rolling Stone appeared the story of the creation of one of the main phenomena of the mobile games market this year – the game Flappy Bird. 

Failure stories rarely end well, but Green Throttle Games, which released a gamepad for Android games a year ago, was lucky. Today it became known that Google acquired it (or rather what was left of it). 

Another couple of years and the Chinese mobile games market may well overtake the American one in terms of earnings. The Newzoo company told in detail about the Chinese market in its latest research.

Having earned over $360 million last year, the American company Kabam decided to diversify its business by buying the Phoenix Age studio based in San Francisco. 

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has demanded that Apple introduce a number of changes that tighten the rules for making purchases inside apps for iOS and Mac.

The authors of the Worms series have announced the launch of a program for publishing third-party projects on the mobile platform market.

The new studio of Canabalt developers Adam and Rebecca Saltsman (Adam Saltsman, Rebekah Saltsman) is located in Texas and is called Finji. 

Company Mail.ru The Group has published a study “Mobile Internet in Russia”. About its main results – in our material.

In his study “Mobile Internet in Russia” Mail.ru The Group said that in 2013, the mobile games market in Russia “grew to $150 million.”