Two years after the release on iOS, Candy Crush Saga appeared on the Windows Phone Store.

Finnish studio Boomlagoon, formed by the authors of the original Angry Birds, announced work on a new game. Their latest project – an endless runner with elements of a collectible card game – in some regions was included in the selection of the best apps in the App Store in 2014.

The original version of the popular Papers Please game for iPad did not get into the App Store: the management considered that the images of the human body in the game did not meet the requirements of the store.

The American retailer plans to release a number of paid high-budget games for Fire OS. We are looking into why paid when talking about the mobile market is perhaps not so bad, unlike the greedy look towards console games.

There’s usually a lot of decent stuff coming out on Thursday. We liked today, however, only three projects: “Marvel: Battle of Champions”, Seabeard and Epic Fall.

Kabam is going to leave the market of browser projects for the sake of the mobile gaming industry, – the Gamasutra resource believes.

Cookie Jam became the game of the year according to Facebook. The social network has also published its selection of the best mobile and social projects of 2014. 

Finnish mobile gaming studio PlayRaven managed to attract additional seed investments in the amount of $4.1 million. Thus, the amount of funds invested in the company since 2013 has reached $7.5 million.

In today’s selection we have: Sneaky Sneaky, Werewolf Tycoon and The Hobbit: The Battle of the five armies.

A few days ago, information appeared on the web that The Banner Saga 2 from Stoic studio will be released next year on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Now it has become known that the continuation of the RPG based on Scandinavian myths will appear on mobile devices, – the Toucharcade resource reports.

Eric Seufert, Wooga’s lead marketer, shared his thoughts on Candy Crush Soda Saga: what the game has achieved since its release, why King needs it, and why the British have returned to cross-promotion in their projects.

Chinese publisher and developer Yodo1, together with Alibaba Media Corporation, launched the mobile social gaming platform KTplay. With its help, there have already been more than 60 million downloads of games. Thus, about 50 Chinese developers have significantly increased the profitability of their titles.

Ubisoft will release next January an HD edition of the legendary Heroes of Might & Magic III on PC and mobile devices. However, since yesterday evening, when the French announced this, this is no longer news, given the number of fans of the original game among the Russian audience, who immediately picked it up. The question is, is this good news? 

An MMO on the Borderlands universe will appear in China. The development will be handled by the local studio Shanda Games together with 2K Games.

The company Live Game Board, which combines augmented reality and board games, has released a set of development tools for Unity.

Today we have two games in our selection – one from Novosibirsk, and the other from Indonesia. Meet: The Treasures of Montezuma 4 and Vimala: Defense Warlords.

The Gamasutra resource regularly publishes articles by developers, art directors and game designers about the industry. We choose the most interesting ones and share them with you.

Metaps, as if in pursuit of the infographic from Superdata, published a detailed analysis of how many days / months this year the top games were in the box office tops of the App Store and Google Play in the first or third places.

How much the digital games market, the Asian mobile games market, as well as the three leading box office games on iOS/Android have earned, experts from Superdata told.