Distimo told you almost everything you dreamed of learning about the earnings of American box office hits; App Annie analyzed the mobile games market; Fiksu reported on the number of daily downloads in the United States – you can read about all this in our digest for last week.

Alexander Zverev, Head of Yandex.At the Winter Nights conference, the App2Top editorial staff answered several questions about the features of this app store.

Investors bought about a quarter of the Finnish company that created Clash of Clans and Hay Day for $120 – $160 million.

Distimo told how much she earns from one download Clash of Clans, Rage of Bahamut, Candy Crush Saga and other box office hits of the American App Store. 

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, held in St. Petersburg on February 8-9, Evgeny Kosolapov, CEO of i-Free Asia, answered a number of questions to the App2Top editorial board about the specifics of promoting mobile games in the Chinese market.

Mikhail Ryazanov, Head of the mobile direction Mail.Ru Group, at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, answered several questions to our editorial staff.

At the round table “Free-to-Play Game Design: a review for the year” at GDC 2013, the speakers analyzed the latest trends in “free” games using the example of the King – Candy Crush Saga project.

As part of the GDC 2013 conference, Havok, a company specializing in middleware development, announced the Project Anarchy toolkit designed to create three-dimensional mobile games. 

The EA-owned PopCap studio announced two games being developed within its walls under the Plants vs. Zombies brand.

Charles Yim, executive director of PlayHaven, spoke at the Winter Nights conference about how to learn to understand players, and also gave examples of optimizing marketing campaigns in order to extend the life cycle of the game and achieve maximum earnings.

The founder of Kabam at GDC 2013 told how the company ported the box office hit Kingdoms of Camelot from PC to mobile platforms.  

Marianna Polyakova, Director of Product Management, told about how PlayFirst uses metrics obtained from hit games to continuously improve them using concrete examples at the Winter Nights conference.

Akin Babayigit, Strategic Partnership Manager at Facebook, at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, spoke about the strength of the platform, its significance for developers and focused on its capabilities for mobile games.

First results of Real Racing 3; monetization tips from the authors Ridiculous Fishing; Ron Gilbert is making a new game about pirates; Tatem Games reports good downloads; interviews with the creators of Beach Dirl Aloha, as well as much more, read in our digest. 

The company Heyzap, which owns the gaming social network of the same name, announced the official launch of the Ads SDK. The new toolkit integrates advertising modules with an interesting feature into applications.

Are games art or not? In disputes on this topic, many copies have been broken. Moreover, many, arguing about this, come to a different, indeed, philosophical question: what is art?

Kiip, a mobile network that allows companies to reward users for virtual achievements with real prizes, has launched a fund for independent developers. The size of the fund is $100 thousand.