Germany’s largest club festival, the Reeperbahn Festival, which is attended by professionals from the world of music, literature and cinema, announced the appearance of a gaming section. 

Many developers of Windows Phone apps have not received download statistics for a month now, according to our colleagues from Pocket Gamer. 

Representatives of the SwapMob auction platform announced the launch of the Swap shop service, which will allow players to trade in-game items with other users.

Ukrainian developers from the Room 8 team reported that their Cyto’s Puzzle Adventure game became the Pick Of the Week of Starbucks coffee shops as part of a joint campaign with Apple.

We continue to publish the most interesting messages that come in connection with the ChinaJoy 2013 conference in Shanghai. This time there are new data on the size of the Chinese mobile games market for the first half of 2013.

Last spring, Google announced the appearance of a game hub on Android, similar in functionality to Game Center on iOS, at its own conference for developers. Yesterday the company launched it on Google Play.

EA earned $90 million on mobile games in three months, the company said in its financial report for the first quarter of 2014.

Auroch Digital together with Games Workshop will release a mobile version of the 1987 board game Chainsaw Warrior. It will be possible to go in search of the source of evil in zombie-infested New York this summer.

The postponement of a number of game releases cost the largest Chinese social network losses of $29 million, as well as sales, 10% less than expected.

Tim Shafer continues to spend the money collected on Kickstarter last year on creating projects that are not related to quests. 

Rovio has announced the global launch of the Rovio Account cross-platform service, which was launched this spring on iOS and Android.

At the international Comic Con festival in San Diego, it became known about the unexpected alliance of the seller of collectibles QMx and the developer of mobile games Spark Plug Games. The companies joined forces to create Firefly Online, an MMO for iOS and Android.

The endless runner based on the cartoon of the same name (more precisely, its second part, which will be released in Russia only on August 15) shows excellent results around the world. 

The Japanese developer of mobile applications KLab, known for the Lord of the Dragons battler, found money to promote his projects.

The last of the so-called “big three” Russian mobile operators who refused to renew the contract with Apple was Vimpelcom. Megafon and MTS also arrived earlier.

A small sensation: the Finnish project has grown to the third position in the box office top of Japanese applications on the iPhone.

Digi-Capital Investment Bank has presented a report on global investments in the mobile games industry for the second quarter of 2013. In short, mobile platforms are dominating, investments in games are growing.

Three former Maxis employees founded the mobile game development studio Jellygrade. The plans are to create a game about the emergence of life on Earth.

Epic Games earned the most on the App Store’s fifth anniversary. By making its main mobile project free, the company has caught up with traffic to its paid products. About how it was – just below.