While Firefox OS is trying to conquer the world with budget devices, Sailfish OS is receiving support from Chinese manufacturers, and Tizen is hiding behind Samsung – Canonical is raising money for the first smartphone using crowdfunding.

Chris Williams, Vice President and CEO of Big Fish for Free-to-play, revealed 5 major mistakes in the development of shareware games at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

 

The main innovation of Unity 4.2 is support for Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10. The developers also announced the appearance of deferred shading in the mobile version of the engine.

Do you like to think with your head? We present to your attention a new iOS application where you will need all your vocabulary and excellent erudition.

The next meeting of the St. Petersburg Applications Club will take place this Thursday in St. Petersburg. Its participants will discuss the interfaces of mobile applications.

Video from the round table at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, where representatives of Big Fish, FishLabs and Nival figured out what casual, midcore and hardcore games are.

Rovio announced Angry Birds Star Wars 2, Kabam was valued at $700 million, Clash of Clans got into the top 3 of Japanese grossing, I-Free talked about the Chinese market – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

Tired of guessing words? Guess the sounds! Each task is 4 photos and 1 sound.

Thomas Hertzler, founder of Blue Byte and creator of The Settlers series of games, is returning to the gaming industry with a new company Stratotainment. The first item on Herzler’s agenda is to restart Battle Isle.

KSK-SOFT has completed the first stage of software development to search for existing tenders on existing electronic trading platforms for certain parameters/queries.

Monster Mind is a colorful logic puzzle based on the famous board game Mastermind and its “school” version — the game Bulls and Cows. The player’s goal is to pick up or guess a sequence of animated images of monsters in several attempts, analyzing hints and making rational conclusions from previous attempts. Despite its sufficient simplicity, in comparison with modern 3D games produced by large companies, the game turned out to be extremely fascinating, addictive,…

The head of Chillingo’s business unit, Matt Dixon, spoke at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference about how the games that the company undertakes to publish look like before the work of its producers, and how – after.

At the PAX Australia in Melbourne, Halfbrick studio, known for games such as Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, announced Colossatron: Massive World Threat.

Yesterday, in connection with the deal between Baidu and Netdragon Websoft, we contacted Evgeny Kosolapov, Executive director of i-Free Asia, and asked him about the situation in the Chinese market. 

Yesterday morning we wrote that a comprehensive monetization system for a group of products is becoming a new tool for increasing revenue. Today there is a reason to remember this.

Heinie Vesander, PR Lead at Supercell, spoke at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference about the “secret sauce” of the company, about how it is customary to work in it. 

Everyone has been talking about China for a year now. There is nothing to be surprised about. This is a huge market in its potential, which is difficult to enter due to its severe fragmentation. But it is necessary to go out.

Last summer was the season of the Temple Run clones, this threatens to become the season of the “ideological heirs” of Clash of Clans. About his first competitors – in our material.