At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we were able to personally ask questions to speakers, including Ville Heijari (Rovio), Chris Williams (Big Fish), Michael Schade (FishLabs). In this article, we have put all the video interviews together.

The volume of the mobile games market in Russia reached $90 million in 2012, experts say Mail.ru Group. This figure does not contradict the data of J’son & Partners Consulting published a few months ago.

Yesterday, April 16, Digital Chocolate launched its first mobile game for real money Slots! Pocket UK in the UK, according to Inside Mobile Apps. Read about the new game and how you can enter the gambling entertainment market in the material.

The publishing “career” of Pocket Gems has gone uphill. Both third-party games released by the company, the number of downloads exceeded 2 million.

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs said that the Firefox mobile operating system will be available in Venezuela, Poland, Brazil, Portugal and Spain this summer.

It’s hard to make money on apps in China. It’s not a secret for anyone today. At the same time, according to the number of active devices on iOS and Android, the Celestial Empire is in one of the first places with its 220 million gadgets. What should I do? 

Remembo is an application for schoolchildren, which is designed not only to help them learn the multiplication table, but also to show how it works. The application is also useful for those who want to consolidate or refresh their knowledge in the field of arithmetic and mathematics. 

Puzzles are becoming popular again. The monthly audience of 4 Pics 1 Word in March in the United States grew by almost a third, according to Onavo. Zynga’s What’s the Phrase also showed impressive growth. At the same time, the MAU of the second part of Temple Run has significantly decreased. 

The third version of Leadwerks allows you to develop games in C++ and Lua for iOS and Android. Read about the details of the new engine in our material.

GungHo Online Entertainment has announced that it is porting its Puzzle & Dragons mobile megahit to the Nintendo DS handheld console.

Gaijin Entertainment has announced a mobile version of War Thunder, its MMO about World War II aircraft. They promise compatibility with the original PC.

In this material we have collected all the lectures and presentations of the Winter Nights conference held in February.

Quite recently, a team of indie developers made a logic game “PolyWars” and decided to show it to the whole world by posting this free app on Google Play.What is “PolyWars”?PolyWars is an exciting puzzle game with special game cells on the playing field for two rivals.

App Annie company announced that it has started indexing applications for Windows 8 devices. So far, however, the functionality is in beta stage. 

How much will games earn in China by the end of the year? Who topped the box office tops of the App Store and Google Play in March? How did Twitter become a gaming platform? About this and much more in our weekly digest. 

A couple of weeks ago, industry veterans from Disney founded the startup Hyper Hippo, which develops games for children. The team started creating projects with an exciting plot.

The results of a study conducted by Animoca, a company specializing in the development and publication of mobile games for Android, show that four of the five most used tablets have 7-inch screens. 

Glow Hockey 3D is a dynamic and modern version of time-tested hits – Air hockey. Pong, Multiponk and Arkanoid. Android is the first of the mobile platforms on which the game is already available for download – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.iddqd .gh3d