It became known that representatives of King and Gameloft appeared among the speakers of Winter Nights 2014. The organizers of the event, in turn, are going to hold: WN Mobile Games Awards, a competition for the best mobile game and Game Elevator Pitch.

The Kiip reward system will be integrated into the games of the domestic company ZeptoLab, the developer of the popular title Cut the Rope.

The Japanese mobile games market has overtaken the American one in terms of revenue, and the Chinese one earned more than $500 million in the quarter, Facebook told about the best games of 2013 – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the past week.   

The director of Korean JOYCITY, Han Seo Jo, said that Korean users are very demanding about the number of updates.

The volume of the US mobile games market last month amounted to $274 million. In total, American users spent $1.1 billion on games (in all segments). This is 25% more than in November last year.

Yesterday KamaGames Studio in its blog on http://habrahabr.ru I published some interesting material about localization. With the kind consent of its authors, we publish the text on the pages App2Top.ru .

The German company Crytek is exploring the mobile free-to-play market. Together with the Japanese giant DeNA, the authors of Crysis are launching The Collectables project.

While Japanese developers are trying to bring butlers to a new level, and Americans are launching them under popular Western brands, Storm8 decided to experiment with a Puzzle & Dragons clone.

The publisher received this amount during the second round of financing. The total amount of funds raised since 2011 has reached $18 million. Investments will be used to expand the publishing business.

Amazon has allowed the gift of virtual currency.

The search giant has announced the launch of an open physics library for two-dimensional projects (2D physics library), a plugin for Unity and new game categories on Google Play.

The Deer Hunter Simulator 2014, which is in the top 10 free apps in the American App Store since its release in July this year, has collected 40 million downloads.

Last night, Kontagent informed its customers about the unity with the Playhaven service. Now it’s one team. 

Urban Airship spoke in numbers about the benefits of push in games. It turned out that they have a minimal impact on retention, but they stimulate engagement very well.