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. 

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, held in St. Petersburg on February 8-9, Evgeny Kosolapov, CEO of i-Free Asia, answered a number of questions to the App2Top editorial board about the specifics of promoting mobile games in the Chinese market.

InMobi has announced App Publish, a platform for automated placement of applications in Android stores.

Yesterday at GDC it became known that the authors of Mortal Combat and Batman: Arkham City Lockdown have taken up the creation of a mobile version for their latest project Injustice: Gods Among Us. 

Since its foundation in 2002, the company has distributed more than 2 billion electronic copies of its games on PC and mobile platforms, representatives of Big Fish said yesterday, at the same time telling how much the company earned last year.

The number of downloads in February collapsed by almost 1 million, according to Fiksu. Following this, the price of applications also fell. It seems that users have played enough with their Christmas gifts.

Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank has received permission from its board of directors to acquire a controlling stake in GungHo Entertainment, which literally blew up the cash tops of mobile app stores with the Puzzle & Dragons game.

Mikhail Ryazanov, Head of the mobile direction Mail.Ru Group, at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, answered several questions to our editorial staff.

The Australian studio Halfbrick, which created Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, will soon release its new creation – Fish Out of Water.

At the round table “Free-to-Play Game Design: a review for the year” at GDC 2013, the speakers analyzed the latest trends in “free” games using the example of the King – Candy Crush Saga project.

As part of the GDC 2013 conference, Havok, a company specializing in middleware development, announced the Project Anarchy toolkit designed to create three-dimensional mobile games. 

The EA-owned PopCap studio announced two games being developed within its walls under the Plants vs. Zombies brand.

Charles Yim, executive director of PlayHaven, spoke at the Winter Nights conference about how to learn to understand players, and also gave examples of optimizing marketing campaigns in order to extend the life cycle of the game and achieve maximum earnings.

Company King.com celebrating its 10th anniversary, it announced a rebranding. Now it will be called simply King. The MAU of the company’s mobile products has grown to 49 million.