Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for August 21.

About the central materials and news for the past week in our digest, which has returned to service.

So autumn has come. I don’t know about you, but we will miss the summer, the sun, if possible, go to work in sandals. On the other hand, there will definitely be more interesting events due to the end of the holiday season. So, we are waiting, and in the meantime, our traditional digest of the main events and materials for the past working week is next in line.

The last week of August is coming up. We hope that everyone has already managed to go on vacation and have a good rest. If not, hurry up and run, there will be no time for this in September. In the meantime, we are presenting the penultimate digest of the central materials of last week this summer.

All this week I have been sharing with my colleagues an observation: the summer turned out to be hot for events. Every day something happens, after which you have to look for the jaw under the neighbor’s table: then Milner will pour money into Vainglory, then Hearthstone earnings will be more than DOTA 2. In general, about the most important thing for the week – see under the cut.

How Puzzle & Dragons was developed; why Facebook bought Oculus Rift; how many users Game Insight has on Windows platforms – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the past week.

The fuss over Oculus Rift, the first figures from the Chinese Global Mobile Game Conference 2014, a few figures from Wargaming and Facebook – all this in our detailed review of the industrial press for Wednesday, March 26.

Links to the most relevant materials of the industrial press on Thursday, March 20.

Links to the most relevant materials in our digest of the industrial press for Wednesday, March 19.

Kontagent+PlayHaven has finally decided on the name; Twitch can already be tested in Asphalt 8; new functionality has appeared in Google Play Games – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Monday, March 17.

The purchase of the Applicier, the most up–to-date data on China, as well as a brief extract of the interview with the creator of Flappy Bird – in our digest for last week. 

Mathematicians have proved that Candy Crush is a complex game; a Chinese publisher invests $ 600 million in mobile games; Techcrunch claims that the game console market is in crisis – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Thursday, March 13.

Backflip has taken up publishing games; Little Big Adventure will appear on mobile platforms in March; what spoils the App Store according to Edge magazine – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Wednesday, March 12.

Big Fish has implemented Bitcoin support, Chartboost has started supporting product placement, Kongregate is launching a mobile game based on Game of Thrones – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Tuesday, March 11.

Kabam defends F2P; Gazprom takes up the sale of mobile advertising; Immersion explains why games need tactile design – about this and much more in the digest of the industrial press for Thursday, March 6.

How many clones of Flappy Bird appear every day in stores; what percentage of web page views are shared on Facebook and Twitter; how to create a top gaming application for $99 and three hours – about this and much more in the digest of the industrial press for Wednesday, March 5.

How to track LTV, whether there is a difference in currency conversion in F2P projects, the 20 most profitable games in the CIS – about this and much more in the digest of the industrial press for Tuesday, March 4.

Zynga has announced the relaunch of its highest-grossing games; Banner Saga publishers will start publishing independent projects; how Flappy Bird should be monetized – about this and much more in the news digest for Monday, March 3.

The tablet market may no longer grow as fast as it used to; Square Enix reported 1 million downloads from Deadman’s Cross; Google announced that a modular smartphone will be released in a year and will cost from $50.