Everyone knows last year’s story about the loud rise and scandalous fall of Draw Something indicators. The second part of the game, judging by the first results, repeats the fate of the original.

David Helgason, executive director of Unity, said that the basic mobile licenses for the engine of the same name, including versions for iOS and Android, are now distributed for free.  

Singapore-based studio Lambdamu reported that its Pixel People game has gained more than 2 million downloads in three months since its release and brought $ 700 thousand to the company’s piggy bank. 

The latest information on the leaders of the American iPhone games market for the week from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

According to the Strategy Analytics report, the Korean company accounted for 95% of the total revenue from sales of Android smartphones in the first quarter of 2013.

While Benoit Sokal is writing the script for the third part of Syberia, Big Fish has released the original 2002 game on iOS. So far, however, only for Canadian iPhone and iPad users.

Last Friday, May 17, Google talked about the work of the Google Play search engine, as well as how developers can improve the visibility of their programs with its help.

On Friday, May 17, a few days ahead of the announced deadline, the acceptance of pre-orders for the NVIDIA Shield portable Android console began.

All our reports from Flashgamm Moscow 2013 and KRI 2013, as well as a detailed review of the gaming market for March from App Annie, details about Google I/O from San Francisco and the most important news from last week, read our digest for last week.

Two days later, ticket prices for White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Europe’s largest conference on the development and promotion of mobile games, will increase. On June 27-28, 2013, Rovio, Supercell, Chillingo, Facebook, Wooga, Big Fish, FishLabs and G5 have already noted in their calendar of events. Have time to register before May 22.

Speaking at the Google I/O 2013 conference, Google Play product manager Ibrahim Elbuchikhi gave a lot of interesting figures and facts regarding the monetization of mobile applications in the official Android store.

App Annie and IDC claim that mobile games have overtaken portable console games in terms of user spending in the first quarter. It also turned out that there are 1.1 billion smartphone users and 160 million tablet users in the world.

The company of one game is a statement of a clearly negative nature. So they scold those studios that have been living on earnings from a single title for many years now. But is it really that bad (to live thanks to the brand)?

The British casual monster King announced that in early summer a mobile version of Pet Rescue Saga, the third part of the “royal saga”, will appear on iOS and Android. 

Paying players in the US spend more every month on mobile games than ever before in history, reports PocketGamer.biz with a link to SuperData.

Expert project Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru and IDC conducted a study of the Russian smartphone market in the first quarter of 2013.  According to its results, the share of Android-based devices in shipments for the year increased from 39.7% to 70.9%.

The second day of KRI was held under the banner of Game Insight. As part of the game developers conference, the authors of “Natives” and “Dragons of Eternity” held their own mini-event – a four-hour seminar “Mobilization”.

Google has published in the official developer blog some details about the Google Play Game Services service, and also talked about the launch line of games. 

Ubisoft, at a conference of game developers taking place in Moscow, told by its own example exactly how to recruit game designers.