The author of “American Gods”, “Sandman” and “Stardust” has announced the game series Wayward Manor, which will be available on mobile devices, among others.

At the Siggraph conference, Nvidia demonstrated how the new Epic Games engine – Unreal Engine 4 – works on the latest graphics chip for mobile devices from Nvidia.

The French publisher has reported for the past six months: half of the company’s revenue is accounted for by revenue from games for smartphones and tablets. 

MDDay announced the seventh Mobilefest conference-festival. According to the already established tradition, the autumn fest will be held in St. Petersburg.

Many developers of Windows Phone apps have not received download statistics for a month now, according to our colleagues from Pocket Gamer. 

Representatives of the SwapMob auction platform announced the launch of the Swap shop service, which will allow players to trade in-game items with other users.

Yulia Lebedeva, Business Development Director at Nevosoft, spoke about the Russian mobile games market at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

Ukrainian developers from the Room 8 team reported that their Cyto’s Puzzle Adventure game became the Pick Of the Week of Starbucks coffee shops as part of a joint campaign with Apple.

We continue to publish the most interesting messages that come in connection with the ChinaJoy 2013 conference in Shanghai. This time there are new data on the size of the Chinese mobile games market for the first half of 2013.

Last spring, Google announced the appearance of a game hub on Android, similar in functionality to Game Center on iOS, at its own conference for developers. Yesterday the company launched it on Google Play.

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The St. Petersburg team JoyBits reported that the total number of downloads of its three Doodle games exceeded the 100 million mark. Most of them came from Flash portals. 

China is currently the leader in the number of active iOS and Android devices in the world. Its growth rates are still at a very high level. In this regard, as well as with the conference, China Joy Flurry shared data on the mobile market of China.

At the ChinaJoy conference, the executive director of Shanda Games Xiangdong Zhang said that the turnover of the Chinese mobile games market at the moment is about $160 million per quarter.

EA earned $90 million on mobile games in three months, the company said in its financial report for the first quarter of 2014.

Auroch Digital together with Games Workshop will release a mobile version of the 1987 board game Chainsaw Warrior. It will be possible to go in search of the source of evil in zombie-infested New York this summer.

While Firefox OS is trying to conquer the world with budget devices, Sailfish OS is receiving support from Chinese manufacturers, and Tizen is hiding behind Samsung – Canonical is raising money for the first smartphone using crowdfunding.

The postponement of a number of game releases cost the largest Chinese social network losses of $29 million, as well as sales, 10% less than expected.

Chris Williams, Vice President and CEO of Big Fish for Free-to-play, revealed 5 major mistakes in the development of shareware games at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.