Sony has announced the PlayStation App, a somewhat belated response to Microsoft’s Xbox Glass. It is assumed that the application will make a “second screen” for console titles from the user’s mobile device, the GamesIndustry bulletin reports.

King is preparing for an IPO. The company announced that Ciara Smyth has become the head of the personnel department (CPO) of the company. This is reported by Pocket Gamer.

Chris Carvalho, COO of Kabam, told about this at the GMIC event held in San Francisco the other day. 

The other day, the executive director of Fishlabs, Michael Schade, gave an interview to Pocket Gamer, in which he explained what led the company to bankruptcy, why the studio went to him.

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Last week, Mikhail Katkoff launched a series of articles on midcore. Today we are publishing a slightly revised version of the first material, it is dedicated to game cycles in midcore projects.

One of the world’s largest messengers has announced plans to enter the stock market relatively soon. 

Last week we counted the volumes of the Russian mobile application market, reflected on what the ideal icon for the game would be, interviewed devtodev, AppTools, Odnoklassniki, Alawar and many others. About all this – in our traditional selection for the past week. 

The British Marmalade has announced the creation of the publishing division Marmalade Play. Its main goal, according to the official press release, is to help developers “get into the mobile market painlessly.”

Telltale Games has announced that its latest title The Wolf Among Us will be ported to iOS this fall. The company also pleased the owners of Sony Vita, who will also be able to install the game on their devices.

On the last day of Kiev Casual Connect, we caught Mo Yang and Yamamoto Aki from DeNA and asked them about the Japanese market. 

The company Alawar recently published the game Heroes War in Russian (in domestic markets – “Gangs: Kings of the streets”) from Com2uS. In connection with the recent release, we interviewed the Novosibirsk team and asked about cooperation with the Koreans.

The other day Supermagical, an arcade game from Super Mega Team, migrated from the category of free-to-play apps to premium on the App Store.

The losses of the social company over the past three months amounted to an “insignificant” amount of $ 68 thousand. This may well be called a breakthrough, given that over the same period last year, Zynga lost more than $ 52 million.

While the studio is looking for investors, 25 employees have lost their jobs. This measure has become necessary to reduce costs, in theory, it will help the studio to continue its work.

App Annie Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa Olivier Bernard said in an interview with our correspondents at Casual Connect Kyiv that an App Annie office will open in Moscow in the foreseeable future. 

At Casual Connect Kyiv, we talked about the gaming market with Jared Guthmiller from WildTangent.