The “lightweight” package costs four times less than the full version. All its key features for creating game models are preserved. 

The mobile version of the indie hit Terraria has finally appeared in the App Store. 

GameBrain has launched a beta version of a new platform to help independent developers.

Another news from Unity 2013. Facebook has launched a new SDK that solves a number of problems of porting Unity games to the social platform.

Unity will soon become a publisher of games, and will also launch its own cross-advertising grid. 

The head of the European branch of MoPub, Paul Childs, at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, told how to increase revenue with the help of Real Time Bidding.

On August 31, a conference on the development of mobile games Frosty Forest Days will open in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok.

Kevin Cho’s company found high patrons: the names of venture funds that bought part of its shares last July became known. Google Ventures is one of them. 

Most applications are dead souls. They are remembered only when they count the number of programs available in the stores. 

The authors of Candy Crush Saga accuse competitors of copying two of their extremely popular games.

The American retail giant Amazon has introduced a new method of monetization of applications – Amazon Mobile Associates API.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, the executive director of FishLabs, Michael Schade, spoke about whether it is worth porting console games to mobile platforms.

In six days since the launch of Jelly Splash on iPhone and iPad, the game has been downloaded more than 1 million times. This is the best result in the entire history of Wooga.

The new rules for publishing applications prohibit advertising in notifications, and also prohibit encouraging users with virtual currency for rating. 

Qihoo 360, which owns one of China’s largest Android app stores, earned almost $152 million in the second quarter.

Creator of Where’s My Water? Tim Fitz Randolph posted on Twitter a photo of a cookie with the logo of the game and the number two. Now the network is wondering what this could mean. 

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, today we are publishing the second part of his story on App2Top.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Vice President of the American division of Gamevil, Kyu Lee, spoke about the differences between the western and eastern mobile application markets.

Interesting material has appeared on Gamasutra dedicated to small consoles running on the Android operating system. We present a brief retelling of it in Russian.