The French company Gameloft has announced the creation of its own office in our country. What will he do, App2Top.ru Polina Nefidova, Director of Digital Marketing at Gameloft in Russia, told us.

Revenue from digital games in Russia in 2013 amounted to $1.1 billion, according to Superdata in its latest research. The main driver of the market, according to her version, is not mobile games at all.

The organizers of Europe’s largest conference for developers and publishers of mobile games shared the first results of the event: Winter Nights 2014 was attended by more than 700 representatives of mobile companies.

Yesterday, Game Insight announced a new game – Cloud Raiders: Sky Conquest. It’s about pirates and giant flying islands. 

According to Sergey Galenkin, one of the leading industrial bloggers of the Runet, everyone is tired of mobile games, it’s time to write that the market is “in the dark.” Is it so?

Is the situation on the market of mobile and social games as cloudless as the representatives of the platforms claim, Igor Klyukin, the leading analyst of Pixonic, analyzes in his article “The Departing Train”.  

Company Mail.ru reports that its search engine has now learned to search for content in mobile applications. Osmino startup helped the largest Russian Internet company in this.

How much the localization of the game costs, why it is needed, how the translation of the game takes place — about this and much more in our interview with All Correct Localization.

Svyaznoy and Euroset presented reports for 2013 on the tablet market in Russia. The figures vary slightly, but the general trend is the same: the market is in the stage of active growth.

“You are releasing a game on iOS. The chance of being featured is less than beating the casino. After the release, you will get to the 600-700 place and are unlikely to get more than a couple hundred installations in a month,” – about the experience of switching from the social market to the mobile market in an interview with CEO Nika Entertainment Maxim Slobodyanyuk. 

“People have less money“: based on the sales figures of mobile electronics, the head of Euroset, Alexander Malis, reports on the beginning of the consumer crisis in Russia.

This is 51% more than in 2012, according to a study by the domestic retailer Svyaznoy. 75% of the gadgets sold work on Android.

The upcoming conference will feature presentations by Apple iOS 7, King, Gameloft, DeNA, Rovio, Warner Bros. and many others. Also, 1 million rubles will be raffled among game developers.

Before the New Year, we interviewed our industry colleagues about what, in their opinion, happened to the market and to them this year. This article contains all fifteen mini-interviews that we managed to get before and after the holidays.

For the New Year, we have prepared an infographic with the main figures of the mobile games and applications market for 2013. 

Together with our industry colleagues, we continue to summarize the results of 2013. This article contains an interview with RJ Games.

Together with our industry colleagues, we continue to summarize the results of 2013. This article contains an interview with Alawar.

Together with our industry colleagues, we continue to summarize the results of 2013. This article contains an interview with Nevosoft.

Together with our industry colleagues, we continue to summarize the results of 2013. This article contains an interview with ZeptoLab.