Japanese publisher Colopl announced that the number of total downloads of the company’s games amounted to 60 million, 40 million of which the company received over the past 9 months. 

The mobile clone of The Legend of Zelda, which was developed for more than two years and distributed according to the paid model, was able to recapture the budget for the App Store in record time.

MDDay announced that the next high-speed development competition will be held in Moscow on December 13-15 and will be dedicated to mobile games.

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My First PuzzleAn educational game for children and parents in the popular puzzle format.

Eutechnyx and Games Workshop have announced a new project for mobile devices in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The game for iOS and Android is called Warhammer 40,000: Storm of Vengeance.

The minimalistic strategy of Rymdkapsel has been downloaded more than 200 thousand times since its release. The developers from the Grapefruit Games studio told about this in an interview with Polygon.

Russian Russian company GSO Event announced a Russian party before MWC 2014 due to the massive influx of Russian guests to the mobile congress this spring (more than 100 domestic companies took part in MWC 2013).

Romantic games for girls (otome sim) are growing in popularity in the Land of the Rising Sun, EDGE reports.

The ability to connect a smartphone or tablet to consoles is a dubious feature, according to Epic Vice President Mark Rein.

The Austrian concern Koch Media acted as the buyer of the authors of the Galaxy on Fire series.

Capcom will spend the proceeds from Monster Hunter 4 to create an internal mobile game development studio.

There are currently two games from King in American grossing. Very soon they may be joined by a third – Papa Pear Saga.

How to deal with the shortage of ideas in the mobile market with the help of desktop games, the editors of App2Top reasoned.

Butlers in the usual sense have come to an end, according to Japanese market analyst Serkan Toto. JRPGs come in their place. 

Michael Schade announced the sale of Fishlabs. As a result of the deal, he and the second co-founder Christian Lohr will leave the company. The buyer’s name is still kept secret.

What is the secret of retaining midcore games, why Clash of Clans does not earn anything in China, how much did a loyal user cost in the USA a month ago – the answers to these and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week.

Two-thirds of developers consider the growing competition in app stores to be the main threat to the mobile industry.