A year ago, one of the hottest topics was the following: whether a publisher is needed in the mobile market. Everyone had examples before their eyes, like Temple Run and Tiny Wings. And small teams, with an eye on the already iconic developers, wondered: what are we worse for?

About the difficulties of promoting mobile games and the importance of ratings in the App Store in his article on App2Top.ru Galina Divakova, a project manager at the Cliskky company, told us.  

Dan Taylor, who participated in the development of Killzone, Medal of Honor and Max Payne 3, on the pages of Gamasutra spoke about the main ten principles of game design. 

The first details about Cut the Rope 2, the introduction of deep links and new DeNA credit cards are in our digest for last week.  

Interviews about the first indicators of Jungle Heat, secrets of advertising effectiveness by ROI, key features of the new OS from Amazon – this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

How much mobile application developers earn on their projects, and what is the average number of studios, the organizers of the ADC conference told in their extensive research (the same guys conduct GDC).

About the most notable and not only game releases in our game digest for the past week. 

Why users have announced a boycott of Kabam, Zynga is suspected of cheating ratings, and in Russia it is necessary to develop games about Putin – read our article about scandals in the gaming industry.

The average check from Candy Crush Saga; the secret of creating perfect screenshots; the latest statistics on mobile market earnings from Gartner – this and much more in our traditional digest.

We thought a little about why we need games “based on movies”, and at the same time we remembered that a game about Riddick’s adventures will soon appear on the App Store.

How important are user ratings, what trends are observed in the Russian mobile device market, how much money top developers earn on the App Store in the USA – the answers to this and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week. 

The best games of August, the secrets of monetization from Gamesbrief, data on the number of smartphones sold on Windows Phone – read about this and much more in our digest for the week!

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, today we are publishing the second part of his story on App2Top.

Are games art or not? In disputes on this topic, many copies have been broken. Moreover, many, arguing about this, come to a different, indeed, philosophical question: what is art?

Today, many people dream that their application will be noticed. But this is not enough for success. The user can download the program, but immediately delete it after the first launch. How to avoid this, says the founder of SessionM.

Mikhail Katkoff in his blog told what the developers of endless runners should pay attention to first of all. We have translated and supplemented his text a little.

Samsung’s dominance in the Android market forces Google to consider the Korean company as a possible aggressor. Companies may not be able to avoid conflict. 

The other day there was the release of Wanderer: War Song, a strange project that made us wonder why such games are still appearing on the mobile market. 

The founder of Realmac Software, Dan Counsell, told in the blog of the company known for Clear and Littlesnapper applications how to get promotion from Apple in the App Store.