The authors of Candy Crush Saga accuse competitors of copying two of their extremely popular games.

The American retail giant Amazon has introduced a new method of monetization of applications – Amazon Mobile Associates API.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, the executive director of FishLabs, Michael Schade, spoke about whether it is worth porting console games to mobile platforms.

The new rules for publishing applications prohibit advertising in notifications, and also prohibit encouraging users with virtual currency for rating. 

Qihoo 360, which owns one of China’s largest Android app stores, earned almost $152 million in the second quarter.

Creator of Where’s My Water? Tim Fitz Randolph posted on Twitter a photo of a cookie with the logo of the game and the number two. Now the network is wondering what this could mean. 

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, today we are publishing the second part of his story on App2Top.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Vice President of the American division of Gamevil, Kyu Lee, spoke about the differences between the western and eastern mobile application markets.

Interesting material has appeared on Gamasutra dedicated to small consoles running on the Android operating system. We present a brief retelling of it in Russian.

The peak of mobile and media sales in the Russian Federation falls on the periods from eight to nine in the evening and from one to two in the morning.

Last week – the first information about Winter Nights 2014 appeared; the volumes of the US mobile gaming market for July became known; Japanese studios opposed the monopoly of GREE and DeNA; Big Fish closed a studio in Vancouver, as well as much more.  

Microsoft’s mobile platform was the second most common in Latin America, according to IDC.

The domestic company Alawar recently announced the imminent release of its Shake Spears game! as part of the Japanese social platform LINE.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, a round table dedicated to local mobile game markets was held, which was attended by representatives of App Annie, Gamevil, Renren Games, FDG and Nevosoft.

Ben Sipe from the marketing company NativX (formerly W3i) told on the pages of his blog what needs to be done to increase retention and improve monetization in a mobile free-to-play project. 

NHN reports: the number of registered LINE users has exceeded 230 million. In Spain alone, the messenger has 15 million users. 

Yesterday, the Japanese publisher Konami announced a card collectible game Star Wars: Force Collection for iOS and Android devices. It will appear on both platforms simultaneously – on September 4.

49 people will be fired from the company, another 70 will be transferred to Seattle, said Big Fish executive director and founder Paul Thelen in a letter to colleagues.

App Annie company together with IDC presented the next quarterly report on the situation on the market of mobile and portable games.