Good news came from Kiev last night. Without too much fanfare, Tatem Games announced that the number of downloads of its mobile games has surpassed the 20 million mark. 

What do Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Where’s my Water, Starcraft and Mario have in common, or why didn’t Amazing Alex and Pudding Monsters go?

Developers from Pendulo Studios came up with an unexpected approach to porting their game Runaway: A Twist of Fate. Having discovered that its full passage would take about 12 hours, the guys sawed the iOS project into two parts. 

The investment company has invested as much as $5 million in its own Dream Weddings division, which creates games aimed at those who are going to get married. 

The new Supergiant game is called Transistor. She is the spiritual heir of Bastion, but strategic elements have appeared in her. It will be released no earlier than 2014. 

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, i-Free company spoke about its experience in promoting mobile games in China, including how it fought piracy by promoting Pudding Monsters simultaneously in a dozen stores.

The author of Monkey Island Ron Gilbert returned to the pirate theme in his first mobile game with a very long title Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG.

Placed offers developers a new way to monetize applications through the original Placed Affiliate service, which collects information about the location of mobile devices.

The announcement of Flash GAMM Moscow 2013 took place. The conference of developers and publishers of flash, social and mobile games will be held as always the day before the CRI, this time on May 14.

A French developer has announced a very unusual project called Hox – a runner with a plot and dialogues. About the originality and the project in our material. 

Venture capital companies Creandum and Lifeline Ventures have invested $2.9 million in the Finnish-Singaporean studio Nonstop Games, which develops hardcore games for mobile platforms.

A sequel to Draw Something is in development. Zynga is confident that the sequel will not only be much more successful than the original, but will also have a good level of user retention, which means a good LTV.

As part of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, a round table was held on the current situation on the mobile platform market. It was attended by representatives of Google, Microsoft, Yandex, and Opera.

Indie developers of mobile games should not be afraid to evaluate their work higher than the notorious $0.99. This opinion was expressed by the Vlambeer team in a discussion posted in the Ask Me Anything section of the famous Reddit site.

Microsoft has made it known that in July next year it will stop all support for its Windows Phone 8 mobile system, whose official release took place in December 2012. 

A new company, Tilting Point, created by veterans of the gaming industry, mainly from Electronic Arts, announced that over the next three years it plans to invest a solid $40 million in mobile games from independent developers.

The number of downloads of the new IronMonkeys game in the first week turned out to be more than the total number of downloads of Real Racing and Real Racing 2 for the entire time of their existence on the market. Is it a success?

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