The Japanese mobile games market has overtaken the American one in terms of revenue, and the Chinese one earned more than $500 million in the quarter, Facebook told about the best games of 2013 – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the past week.   

In Puzzle & Dragons, there is a limit on the amount of money that a user can contribute to the gameJapanese GungHo, which earns about $3.75 million a day on Puzzle & Dragons, announced an unusual initiative.

There are 1 million active apps in the App StoreIn the Apple mobile app store, the number of programs available for download has reached the 1 million mark.

King postponed the IPOBritish King decided not to enter the US stock market so that investors would not consider it a “one-game company”.

Facebook summed up the gaming results of the yearThe best game of 2013 according to Zuckerberg’s social network was Criminal Case.

The selection also includes Farm Heroes Saga and King’s Bounty: Legions.

Two announcements of Telltale Games and five reasons why it is so successfulTelltale Games accounted for the largest number of announcements on the VGX game show.

The studio announced work on games based on the Borderlands dilogy and the Game of Thrones series. We decided that this is a great reason to publish our last year’s material about Telltale Games and its quests.

The Chinese mobile games market has earned more than $500 million in three monthsIn the third quarter of 2013, revenues from the Chinese mobile games market amounted to $587 million.

This is 75% more than this market earned in the same period last year.

The volume of the Japanese mobile app market is 10% larger than the American oneIn terms of revenue from mobile markets, the Country of the Rising Sun has overtaken the United States.

This happened thanks to the rapid growth in the number of smartphones and tablets.

Storm8 relaunched Tower of SaviorsWhile Japanese developers are trying to bring butlers to a new level, and Americans are launching them under popular Western brands, Storm8 decided to experiment with a Puzzle & Dragons clone.

High-quality localization of the mobile application. 5 simple tips and 12 linksYesterday KamaGames Studio in its blog on http://habrahabr.ru I published some interesting material about localization.

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