What is common between Flappy Bird and Nintendo, why Valentine’s Day is a new Christmas, how much the growth rate of the Chinese market fell in the last quarter of 2014 – about this and much more in the news for Friday, February 14.

Since the fate of Kontagent and HasOffers is still unclear, it’s time to pay attention to alternative solutions that are still included in Facebook’s Mobile Measurement Program. Adjust is one of them.

At the Winter Nights 2014 conference, Romuald Zdebsky, Head of the Department of Strategic Technologies at Microsoft, answered several questions to our editorial staff.

King is again accused of theft, Square Enix wants to make mobile games based on Hitman, Gamasutra talks about the new Defcon. 

Last night it became known that the social network Facebook excluded two large companies from its Mobile Measurement Program – HasOffers and Kontagent.

About the main App Store releases this week – in our material. In secret, there is not much to do, so you can safely continue playing Broken Sword 5, but we strongly advise you to pay attention to Slam Dunk Baseball 2.

We talked about the market for Android-based consoles with John Gargiulo, vice president of marketing at BlueStacks, which is launching the gamepop microconsole soon.

Representatives of the Finnish company shared with App2Top.ru Ilkka Paananen’s presentation, from which new details of his performance yesterday became known. 

Starting today, we will try to slowly introduce a new type of materials for us – daily digests. It is not always possible to write about everything that happened in the industry in a day, but it is easy to mention the most important in one publication.

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

At the Winter Nights 2014 conference Pavel Ryakkonen, Distribution Director of Nevosoft, answered several questions to our editorial staff.

The main game of January-February was Flappy Bird. Everyone is discussing it. Some try to explain the success, others try to repeat it. But now, after deleting the application, it’s time to take stock. Forbes journalist Lan An Nguyen did it best. 

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. 

“If you want your game to be visited more often, launch it on Android,” you might think if you read the latest report from analysts from Mobidia, who have been tracking engagement in leading mobile projects over the past year. 

About the level of penetration of mobile devices in China, the largest markets in China and the reasons why it is necessary to work with them directly, App2Top.ru Sergey Korneev, marketing manager of Clickky, 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.

Most mobile app developers earn less than $500 a month, according to the latest report from Mobile Vision.

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.

February 7, Saint Petersburg, Park Inn Pulkovskaya Hotel. The largest conference in Eastern Europe dedicated to the development of mobile games, Winter Nights 2014 has opened its doors.