The start of the Christmas season seriously raised the cost of a loyal user, but almost did not affect the number of daily downloads in the United States, Fiksu said.

Alibaba has announced the development of its own mobile gaming platform. The new service will compete with WeChat.

The other day, Apple announced that users of “Apple” mobile devices spent more than $10 billion on App Store applications last year.

About the main trends in the mobile games industry of the outgoing year and what to expect in the near future – in our New Year’s Eve “program” material.  

Despite the high income Minecraft: Pocket Edition took only the third place in the top box office of the US App Store. The first and second places went to Clash of Clans and Candy Crush Saga.

In 2013, the average salary of Russian programmers was $2,645 (80 thousand rubles). This is the conclusion reached by the employees of the Russoft Association. The average growth was 15%. 

We finished the first part of the article about KakaoTalk on the KAKAO Game Platform. Let’s talk about it more specifically.   

How much have Americans spent on mobile games this year, which games have become the best according to Apple, how much has the Russian market grown? The answers to these and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week.  

Who spends huge sums on Clash of Clans and why? What kind of people lead the top players in the project? In part, these questions were answered by The New York Times, which recently published material about the legendary Clash of Clans player – Jorge Yao. 

Paying users spend the most money on IAP on the first day of the game, according to Playnomics experts. 

President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime (Reggie Fils-Aime) announced that the company intends to conduct an experiment with mobile devices.

40% of American gamers didn’t spend a cent in 2013. The remaining 60% generated $20.5 billion per year or $16.46 per month for each paying player.

GREE has announced that F2P MMOG Knights & Dragons has made a profit of $5 million in 30 days. It took the project seven months to reach this figure.

The shelf of game controllers has arrived. Korean giant Samsung has released a gamepad for sale for a line of its own Galaxy devices – Smartphone GamePad.

In terms of revenue, the Russian market is on the 10th place in the world – right after France, Distimo said in its 2013 results.

The British company ARM bought out Geomerics, a company engaged in real-time lighting modeling. Why would a chip corporation need such an acquisition?

The founder and CEO of Zenna Apps Inna Zaichenko wrote a huge material specifically for App2Top about what is the most popular KakaoTalk messenger in South Korea. In the first part, Inna shared a brief history of the service. 

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.   

The director of Korean JOYCITY, Han Seo Jo, said that Korean users are very demanding about the number of updates.