At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Artem Makarov, a representative of Trademob in Russia, spoke about how real-time bidding can help in promoting mobile games.

Western companies are actively investing in the Finnish game studio Grand Cru, which has not yet managed to release a single project. Yesterday it became known about the next round of financing.

Two months ago, the search company introduced Google Play game services, a whole set of tools for game developers. The other day, the company shared his first successes.

A Chinese mobile company has announced that it has started earning $12 million a month. Its sales for the current year may amount to a solid $ 150 million.

The first day of August promises to be especially hot, not only because of the summer season – in just a few days, the intense preparation for the release of a new social game will be rewarded with a vengeance!

Last December, Full Control Studio promised to release Space Hulk, an adaptation of the classic 1989 Warhammer 40K board game, this summer. And last Friday, it “happened” – pre-orders opened in the Steam store for a novelty.

Arkadium, using the example of its games, notes a 35% increase in the number of active users among owners of Windows 8 devices. In this scenario, the iOS application market seems less stable to them.

GungHo Online has published a financial report for the first half of this year. It contains extremely interesting figures of Puzzle & Dragons financial indicators.

Nikola Cavic, Business Development Director at Nordeus, spoke at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference about the promotion of the Top Eleven football simulator through emerging markets and alternative stores.

At the end of last week, GungHo Online, which earns hundreds of millions of dollars a month on the Puzzle & Dragons card battler, announced its second American release.

The other day CocoaChina and Gameloft announced the continuation of partnership relations. Within their framework, the Chinese company will localize Dungeon Hunter 4 and Asphalt 8: Airborne for the Celestial market. 

Pet Rescue Saga, King’s third game on mobile platforms, appeared on the App Store on June 12. It’s time to sum up the preliminary results.

According to GungHo, the number of Puzzle & Dragons users has reached 17 million. Statistics include Japanese App Store, Google Play and Kindle users.

Capy Games has published data on the distribution of sales of its cross-platform hit by device types and prices.

Last week “passed” under the Chinese flag largely thanks to ChinaJoy. Figures about the Chinese market were pouring out of a cornucopia. Plus, it’s time for quarterly reports. EA, Gameloft and Zynga were the first to “speak out”.

Despite the stated course for the transition to the mobile market, 70% of Zynga game users still remain online. And their company loses.

Germany’s largest club festival, the Reeperbahn Festival, which is attended by professionals from the world of music, literature and cinema, announced the appearance of a gaming section.