Big Fish has clearly demonstrated how experience affects the average salary of game developers in the States, and at the same time, where it is best to study for them, and where to go to work after that.

The German startup AppLift, which provides services to attract users, received investments of $13 million from the Dutch venture capital firm Prime Ventures.

Applicier proved that the main source of information about games is word of mouth; Playnomics discovered how few people spend money on free-to-play; Millennial Media told in detail about the American OS market. About this and much more in our digest.

The end of last week was marked by several high-profile iOS releases, against the background of which, surprisingly, the simple puzzle Marbly was not lost. One of its creators is the legendary Alexey Pajitnov, the author of “Tetris”.

The other day, App Annie published its traditional review of the mobile gaming market for the month. This time for April. No surprises or discoveries: Clash of Clans, Puzzles & Dragons and Candy Crush Saga are still in the lead.

The open source project One Platform Foundation (OPF) together with Yandex, whose developers are involved in its creation, announced the AppDF format, designed to seriously facilitate the publication of Android applications.

The Signs is a new game from Tooflya Inc. undoubtedly will appeal to fans of puzzle-style toys.

The game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic took third place in the box office top of iPad US in a few hours, overtaking Hay Day, Big Fish Casino, Injustice: Gods Among Us and many other titles. 

Glu Mobile will enable American users to win real money in their non-gambling games. Yesterday, the company announced the beginning of cooperation with the Californian startup Skillz, whose service allows you to do this.

AppData, a well-known provider of social and mobile application analytics, announced that now it will also regularly post data on the approximate profitability of applications and developers.

Representatives of companies such as Samsung, Google, Microsoft, SAP, Intel, Qualcomm and BlackBerry will take part in the Mdday#MoCO conference for mobile developers taking place on June 4-5 in Moscow. 

The worldwide release of the free version of Running with Friends took place in mid-May. Just yesterday, a soft launch of the paid version of the game started in Canada. So it’s time to sum up the preliminary results. 

Go for the treasure! Grab the cart and catch the falling rocks!

Today, on May 30, GungHo announced that the Puzzle & Dragons user base has surpassed the mark of 14 million people in Japan alone.

Amazon continues its global expansion. Yesterday, she launched the end-to-end authorization service in Android and iOS apps.

The Dots game was released about a month ago and, as we have already reported, almost instantly became popular. Its creators from Betaworks decided not to stop there and prepared a version optimized for iPad and including multiplayer.

The mobile market is under the close attention of many analytical firms. Thus, experts from IDC in the latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker note that this year the volume of tablet shipments will increase from 144.5 million (2012) to 229.3 million, that is, by 58.7%.

Millennial Media has presented a report on the American mobile device market for the first quarter of 2013. There are some interesting figures. For example, did you know that 25% of iPad users have an Android smartphone?

The Grapple marketing agency presented the “world’s first” engine created to increase the effectiveness of advertising campaigns to promote a particular brand, and infographics on the situation on the mobile application market.