In January last year, Cookie Run: Kingdom, a battler from Devsisters based on the popular IP in South Korea, was released. GameLook talked about the financial achievements of the project.

The Finnish Rovio is struggling with the distrust of the market. The company reported a successful completion of the quarter, but the exchanges reacted with restraint to the success report. Despite a 70% increase in operating profit, Rovio’s shares strengthened by only 5%.

From March to June, revenue from MMO projects for desktops continues to grow continuously in Russia. At the same time, the dynamics jumps. In June, the turnover increased by only 1%.

It was reported that the Puzzle & Dragons game developer company created the GGF B.V. holding in the Netherlands last year.

Company Mail.ru The Group has published a study “Mobile Internet in Russia”. About its main results – in our material.

In his study “Mobile Internet in Russia” Mail.ru The Group said that in 2013, the mobile games market in Russia “grew to $150 million.”

The iPad no longer dominates the “tablet” market, Gartner announced yesterday. Android has captured this mobile device market as well.

Yesterday we published data from the latest TalkingData survey on the Chinese market. Today, the company shared an infographic based on this research. There is not much new data in it, but we could not get past it.  

The number of active smartphones in China has crossed the mark of 550 million devices, – said the Chinese company TalkingData. According to analysts, 96% of devices have at least one mobile game installed.

Yesterday it became known that the authors of Candy Crush Saga are abandoning their plans to consolidate the word Candy as the intellectual property of King in the US digital products market.

It is most profitable to buy installations in Japan, South Korea and Australia. In other countries, the difference between the download revenue and the installation price is minimal, says Distimo.

Yesterday, the analytical company App Annie published a large report on the digital market of mobile programs. We have highlighted the main theses concerning the mobile games market. 

More than 1.57 million iPhones were sold in pieces in Russia last year, according to IDC analysts.

The revenue of the creators of Clash of Clans and Hay Day has grown almost nine times in a year.

Flappy Bird and its numerous clones captured the free chart of the American App Store last week, on the paid one – one of the most delicious places turned out to be playing three-dimensional hide-and-seek. 

The success of The Walking Dead has returned the interest of developers of mobile and not only games to the episodic model of content distribution. But is everything so good in the “Danish Kingdom”?

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?

The secret of NaturalMotion’s success and its purchase by Zynga, King’s response to accusations of theft, advice from Facebook and the reaction to them from Pixonic – this and much more in our traditional digest for the past week.