Today we have in our collection: Nitropia, Puppet Punch and Jewel Mash.

How minimalism reduces the cost, what the Hungarian gaming industry is today, why paid games are more often promoted in the App Store – we talked about this and much more with Invictus Games CEO Tamas Kozak.

The American company Kabam has decided to soften the monetization policy in some games in order to “strengthen user loyalty.” This is reported in the official press release.

Released in early December, match-3 about ghostbusters from the creators of Clash of Clans and Hay Day shows mediocre results, both in terms of downloads and revenue.

To successfully port a mobile project to a PC, you need to focus on casual gamers who love hardcore games, – says Frederick Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive studio.

The Finnish company has presented a new project under the Angry Birds brand – Angry Birds Fight! This is a dynamic (for a while) “three-in-a-row” with role-playing elements. So far, the game has been released only in Thailand.

In 2015, the volume of the mobile games market in Taiwan will grow by 70% and amount to $474 million,” says analyst Wu Wen-Jung from Taipei Computer Association.

Monday is a hard day, and just for unloading we picked up some great projects: Slide the Block, Ramboat and Total Destruction.

Three mobile projects competed for the attention of the audience in the Super Bowl 2015: Clash of Clans, Game of War and Heroes Charge.

The match-three Best Fiends from the Finnish team is seriously played daily by 1 million users, according to a press release from the studio. 

Elizaveta Sokolova from N-Game Studios in the framework of DevNight Dnepr spoke about the difference in working with art customers from different regions of the world. For App2Top.ru Elizabeth has prepared a printed version of the speech.

The App Store will soon be overflowing with “zombie apps” that don’t have a chance to reach the consumer – that’s what a new study from the Adjust mobile analytics agency predicts.

Interviews with the authors of Skyward, a list of sites to which you can send the game for review, a visual guide to setting tasks for game designers – this is not only in our digest for the past week. 

After a short break, we continue our column about the best releases. Today there are four mobile projects in the selection: Evolve: Hunters Quest, Titans, Gourmet Ranch and Epic Racers.

The majority of English game developers work more than they should according to the law,” says the Develop-online resource based on a study conducted among its readers.

On January 8, a cute bubble Hero Pop was released in the App Store. Developers from the Ukrainian studio Nravo shared with us the history of its creation.

The other day, App Annie summed up the results of the year in the App Annie Index: 2014 Retrospective study. From it, you can find out not only what place Russia occupies in terms of revenue and downloads in the world, but also how the market for mobile applications and games as a whole has changed over the past year. We present his squeeze.

A version of the Unity 4.6.2 engine with 64-bit architecture support for iOS has appeared, according to the company’s official blog.