Ian Bowden, the former art director of Rockstar, left the company to join the development of mobile and social games in the German studio GameDuell.

On the pages of the March issue of Rolling Stone appeared the story of the creation of one of the main phenomena of the mobile games market this year – the game Flappy Bird. 

Microsoft has named a new executive director. Steve Ballmer was replaced by Satya Nadella. He is a veteran who has worked in the company for more than 20 years. The new head of the largest IT corporation in the world wears glasses, enjoys cricket and loves innovation.

King is preparing for an IPO. The company announced that Ciara Smyth has become the head of the personnel department (CPO) of the company. This is reported by Pocket Gamer.

Teemu Huuhtanen left Rovio to create his own studio – Next Games.

The author of the Deconstructor of Fun blog has left the post of product manager at Supercell. His new place of work is the American Scopely.

Stephen Elop will be appointed Executive Vice President of Microsoft Devices and will be engaged in the further development of Windows Phone, Xbox console and Surface tablet series in early 2014.

49 people will be fired from the company, another 70 will be transferred to Seattle, said Big Fish executive director and founder Paul Thelen in a letter to colleagues.