The mobile title New Legend of the Sword 3D brought its publishers, the Chinese studio CMGE, $ 1.6 million on the first day since its release.

Yesterday it was reported that Apple may reject the game if it has ads that mention other platforms. We asked representatives of myTarget, WakeApp, AppInTop, Unilead and Clickky if this is really the case.

1.25 billion mobile users visit Facebook every month. This is 24% more than last year, according to the report on the first fiscal quarter of 2015, which the company published the other day.

Match-3 Best Fiends from the Finnish team Seriously will be released on an Apple smartwatch. The release is timed to coincide with the launch date of Apple Watch sales – April 24.

This year, the global gaming market will reach the size of $91 billion. This is the conclusion reached by the analytical company Newzoo.

Kabam plans to focus on mobile RPG and strategy. The company expects that they will bring in a billion dollars annually.

About 83% of all revenue from mobile games in 2014, developers received through the App Store and Google Play. This is what Newzoo reports in its research.

The App Store does not accept applications whose ads contain mentions of other platforms. This is reported by the resource Pocketgamer.biz , referring to their own data.

Games in the Angry Birds Stella franchise have surpassed the 30 million downloads bar. Of these, 5 million are accounted for by Angry Birds: Stella Pop!. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to the statement of Rovio representatives.

Salaries of British programmers are growing faster than other salaries in the local gaming industry – these are the conclusions reached by the British trade association TIGA based on the results of its research.

Kushal Dave, senior director of the technical department at Forsquare, believes that it’s time for Apple to change its policy regarding application verification. In its current form, it harms users.

Virtual reality glasses from MergeVR startup are preparing to compete with Oculus and Samsung headsets. The device will cost about $129 and will be on sale this fall.

This summer in June, the seventh WN conference will be held in St. Petersburg: White Nights 2015.

The Yahtzee With Buddies game from Scopely studio launched on iOS and Android 5 days ago. Since that moment, it has been downloaded 1 million times.

Microsoft will collaborate with Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Chukong Technologies. The integration of the Visual Studio development environment with the engines of these companies will be improved. The information appeared on the official Microsoft blog.

A new collection of apps called Games You Can Feel has appeared on Google Play. It presents games in which the player’s actions will be accompanied by vibrations of varying intensity.

Why DeNa is firing Canadian employees, how much money should be put into the game budget for analytics, why is Pinkapp going to finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu? The answers to these and other questions are in our traditional digest of the beginning of the week.

The light did not converge on Unity, Unreal Engine or CryEngine, our colleagues from the Techcrunch resource are convinced. They have prepared a list of a dozen alternatives to popular engines. We share.

Eric Seufert, the new vice president of the acquisition and user engagement department at Rovio, told us what the minimum budget should be for analytics, and why mobile stores are “only for winners”.