Vice President of Taptica Matt Tubergen tells on the pages of Pocket Gamer how to work with analytics. We offer a translation of his third article, “Key Questions to Data”, devoted, respectively, to key questions on analytics.

One of the main franchises of the Games Workshop company is experiencing a real renaissance. In 2013, the third game in the brutal world of Warhammer 40,000 is announced. This time, the brave space marines from the Slitherine studio act as developers.

The Skillz service from the startup of the same name will allow users to compete with each other in mobile games for real money. Recently, its beta version for Android applications was released in the USA. The first results showed a threefold increase in revenue and session length.

As part of yesterday’s Xbox One presentation, Xbox Live Vice President Mark Whitten announced that the number of downloads of the Xbox SmartGlass mobile app exceeded the milestone of 10 million.

It has been reported that Aspyr Media is porting the iconic role-playing game in the Star Wars universe Knights of the Old Republic to Apple tablets. 

Burstly, a provider of solutions for mobile developers, has announced that its services will be available to all developers, not just the creators of the “coolest” applications.

The latest information on the leaders of the American Google Play games market for the week from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

Facebook announced the introduction of a native share dialog for iOS applications. Do we expect an increase in virality in the mobile market?

The multiplatform Godus project, for which Molineux 22cans successfully raised £526,000 last December, will be published by the Japanese giant DeNA on iOS and Android platforms.

Everyone knows last year’s story about the loud rise and scandalous fall of Draw Something indicators. The second part of the game, judging by the first results, repeats the fate of the original.

David Helgason, executive director of Unity, said that the basic mobile licenses for the engine of the same name, including versions for iOS and Android, are now distributed for free.  

Singapore-based studio Lambdamu reported that its Pixel People game has gained more than 2 million downloads in three months since its release and brought $ 700 thousand to the company’s piggy bank. 

The latest information on the leaders of the American iPhone games market for the week from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

According to the Strategy Analytics report, the Korean company accounted for 95% of the total revenue from sales of Android smartphones in the first quarter of 2013.

While Benoit Sokal is writing the script for the third part of Syberia, Big Fish has released the original 2002 game on iOS. So far, however, only for Canadian iPhone and iPad users.

Last Friday, May 17, Google talked about the work of the Google Play search engine, as well as how developers can improve the visibility of their programs with its help.

On Friday, May 17, a few days ahead of the announced deadline, the acceptance of pre-orders for the NVIDIA Shield portable Android console began.

All our reports from Flashgamm Moscow 2013 and KRI 2013, as well as a detailed review of the gaming market for March from App Annie, details about Google I/O from San Francisco and the most important news from last week, read our digest for last week.

Two days later, ticket prices for White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Europe’s largest conference on the development and promotion of mobile games, will increase. On June 27-28, 2013, Rovio, Supercell, Chillingo, Facebook, Wooga, Big Fish, FishLabs and G5 have already noted in their calendar of events. Have time to register before May 22.