Continuation of the first part of the “Davinci Riddles”, an exciting game where you need to solve puzzles and solve non-standard puzzles.“The Mysteries of DaVinci: Renaissance” (“Renaissance”) continues the idea of the first part, but on a new level.

Rapala, the world’s largest manufacturer of baits, has released a new line of fishing gear under the Angry Birds brand.

According to Venturebeat, the venture firm Signia Venture Partners has organized a fund totaling $100 million, focused on supporting startups in the fields of mobile applications, games, online video and educational technologies.

The Munich–based company Metaio, which develops software related to augmented reality (augmented reality – AR), announced that 50 thousand developers are already using its platform, and the number of applications based on it has exceeded 1,000.

Marmalade SDK 6.3 adds support for Android smartphones running on Intel chipsets, Roku streaming players, plus Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10 platforms are coming out of beta.

Following the previous news: as part of the massive cuts, Zynga is going to close the studio of OMGPOP, the developer of the acclaimed mobile game Draw Something. 

Yesterday it became known that Zynga intends to reduce its staff by 18%. Thus, at least 520 people will be laid off.

The latest information on the leaders of the American iPhone games market for the week (May 20-26) from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

Big Fish has clearly demonstrated how experience affects the average salary of game developers in the States, and at the same time, where it is best to study for them, and where to go to work after that.

Applicier proved that the main source of information about games is word of mouth; Playnomics discovered how few people spend money on free-to-play; Millennial Media told in detail about the American OS market. About this and much more in our digest.

The end of last week was marked by several high-profile iOS releases, against the background of which, surprisingly, the simple puzzle Marbly was not lost. One of its creators is the legendary Alexey Pajitnov, the author of “Tetris”.

The Signs is a new game from Tooflya Inc. undoubtedly will appeal to fans of puzzle-style toys.

Representatives of companies such as Samsung, Google, Microsoft, SAP, Intel, Qualcomm and BlackBerry will take part in the Mdday#MoCO conference for mobile developers taking place on June 4-5 in Moscow. 

The worldwide release of the free version of Running with Friends took place in mid-May. Just yesterday, a soft launch of the paid version of the game started in Canada. So it’s time to sum up the preliminary results. 

Go for the treasure! Grab the cart and catch the falling rocks!

Today, on May 30, GungHo announced that the Puzzle & Dragons user base has surpassed the mark of 14 million people in Japan alone.

The mobile market is under the close attention of many analytical firms. Thus, experts from IDC in the latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker note that this year the volume of tablet shipments will increase from 144.5 million (2012) to 229.3 million, that is, by 58.7%.

The Grapple marketing agency presented the “world’s first” engine created to increase the effectiveness of advertising campaigns to promote a particular brand, and infographics on the situation on the mobile application market.

Novosibirsk IT company Azoft has released an application that unites party-goers around the world.