The US Digital Games Market Update and Rankings report for October 2013 has been published. Based on these studies, over the past month, digital sales have finally “exchanged” another billion US dollars. 

Facebook and Parse invite representatives of the mobile industry to take part in FbStart Moscow, which will be held on November 28.

A recent Rumble study found that owners of Android devices are several times more likely to share articles with friends than owners of iOS devices.

Swedish-Russian publisher G5 Entertainment has released its financial figures for the third quarter and for the period from January to September this year.

How many MAU millionaires there are among mobile developers, what is needed to create a successful mobile game, why steampunk is not so popular – about this and much more in our traditional digest for last week. 

Financial difficulties forced GREE to stop developing 27 games, most of which were conducted by Japanese studios. Thus, the company lost $53 million.

The Canadian-Chinese startup Pixelmatic has emerged from the shadows, whose founders believe that the world is about to see the birth of new social games.

Programmers are invited to create mobile games and applications:C++ Programmers; 

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Yesterday, a new mobile game from Nival – Defenders appeared on the App Store (it was released on PC under the title Prime World: Defenders). In connection with the release, we talked about the fate of the project with Sergey Galenkin, EMEA Marketing Director of the Prime World team. 

The next round of financing brought TinyCo $20 million. The Pinnacle Ventures venture fund, which had previously invested a substantial amount in Kabam, invested the most.

King reported that in the year since the release of Candy Crush Saga has gained 500 million installations. The number of sessions played exceeded 150 billion. 

The other day it became known about the purchase by Nintendo of part of the shares of Dwango Co, which distributes mobile content. After the transaction, the value of both companies increased.

The Ukrainian studio Room 8, previously noted for the release of Cyto, is going to release Riot Runners, a runner about robots, “imbued with the spirit of steampunk.” The imminent release of the game is a great reason to talk about the popularity of steampunk on mobile platforms. 

FDG has released an unusual project for itself on the App Store – a paid action adventure game Oceanhorn. 

The Finnish platform Jolla has named the Russian company Yandex as an official partner for the distribution of applications. The domestic search giant via Yandex.The Store will distribute programs for the new Sailfish operating system.