While the gaming community is discussing the PlayStation 4 announcement, waiting for April, when, according to rumors, the presentation of the new Xbox is due to take place, and wondering what the games of the eighth generation of consoles will be, Nvidia is also not wasting time. 

Artur Shakalis, head of the mobile games platform of the Odnoklassniki social network, spoke at the Winter Nights conference about the potential of the Odnoklassniki platform.ru for mobile applications for Android and iOS.

Deep Silver, a division of the German company Koch Media, engaged in the publication of computer and console games, has announced its plans to develop the mobile games market.

Kabam spoke about the key audiences in the mobile market, as well as what distinguishes a hardcore player from a midcore one. 

American gaming journalists have calculated how much a new “free” Electronic Arts game can cost avid gamers. The figure turned out to be, to put it mildly, impressive.

Within the framework of the Winter Nights conference, the issues of finding and hiring employees were discussed at the round table “The labor market in the mobile gaming industry”. Where is it better to look? How much should I pay? Hire an expensive “experienced” specialist or teach young people “in battle”?

Aggressive advertising on Japanese television helped GungHo’s game achieve record revenue figures, according to analyst Serkan Toto. 

The revival of classical genres on mobile platforms continues. Next up is the dungeon crawler.

Yandex has launched its own store for users of smartphones and tablets on the Android platform. 

Do Kingdoms of Camelot and Arcane Empires compete with each other, Andrew Sheppard, president of Kabam Game Studios, told us about his fastest-growing game and a new racing project. 

The Korean company LG is well prepared for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. On the first day of the event, she announced the purchase of webOS, support for Firefox OS and her attitude to Windows Phone 8.

Words With Friends is twice as popular as Temple Run and Angry Birds, and tablets generate three times more traffic than smartphones, analysts at ByteMobile say in their February report. 

Nikolay Kim, Business Development Manager at Ancor, at the Winter Nights conference, spoke in his report about the labor market in the mobile gaming industry outside Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Read about the reasons for the popularity of collectible card games, how much users spent on mobile games in 2012, the difference in revenue between mobile and portable games, and much more in our news digest for last week.

The German company Wooga has announced a line of new products, and at the same time announced that it has finally started making money on game development.

At Casual Connect Europe, we caught the Director of business Development King.com Karina Tietje, who, unfortunately, turned out to be not very verbose and not inclined to share secrets on the development of hits. However, we were still able to learn something from her.

The publisher of Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga is going to conquer Japan and Korea. Gongong has already been “captured”.