Playdek, a company specializing in the development of mobile versions of board games, has attracted investments in the amount of $ 3.8 million. Several venture capital firms, led by Qualcomm Ventures, have “invested” in it. 

The next generation of mobile devices will overtake the seventh generation of consoles in terms of performance, said a representative of Nvidia. 

The British trade association TIGA has published a new study demonstrating that the gaming industry in England is “young, independent and mobile.” 

According to a study by Kantar Worldpanel, over the last quarter (December – February), the interest of American consumers in Android-based devices exceeded the share of the iPhone. Now the former account for more than half (51.2%) of sales of all smartphones.

Kuato Studios has released a free Hakitzu app for iPad, which teaches the basics of JavaScript programming in a playful way.

The former vice president of Zynga Austin, with the support of Chaotic Moon Studios, founded a startup for the development of mobile games. The studio’s first project was a collectible card game with a market where players can sell game content to each other. 

Mikhail Katkoff, Supercell Product manager, talked about how to distinguish a successful game project and make money on it. The interview took place within the framework of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

The Japanese mobile super hit Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo does not reduce the growth rate of its audience. On March 25, it reached the mark of 11 million users. It took the game only 16 days to do this. 

Marmalade company told about itself, its plans for the future, the gaming market and competitors. 

Jun Group has opened a new HyprMX division offering developers and publishers a platform of the same name for managing video advertising blocks from various sources. 

The authors of the project from SundayToz stated that the daily revenue of their mobile game is about half a million dollars.

The Japanese role-playing battler Blood Brothers was a hit in Japan and the USA. At GDC, its authors from DeNA talked about what made the project so successful on the market. 

 

Distimo told you almost everything you dreamed of learning about the earnings of American box office hits; App Annie analyzed the mobile games market; Fiksu reported on the number of daily downloads in the United States – you can read about all this in our digest for last week.

Alexander Zverev, Head of Yandex.At the Winter Nights conference, the App2Top editorial staff answered several questions about the features of this app store.

It has been reported that in the near future Apple will officially announce a gamepad for its iOS devices.

Investors bought about a quarter of the Finnish company that created Clash of Clans and Hay Day for $120 – $160 million.

Distimo told how much she earns from one download Clash of Clans, Rage of Bahamut, Candy Crush Saga and other box office hits of the American App Store. 

App Annie company summed up the gaming results of last February in the mobile application market. Read about the download and revenue champions in the iOS and Google Play markets below.