Finnish studio Next Games, which is currently preparing a mobile game in The Walking Dead universe, has acquired its neighbors – startup Helsinki GameWorks.

A marketing company from San Francisco, Swrve, received $10 million for development during the next round of financing, Mobyaffiliates reports.

DeNA has released tower defense in the Star Wars universe. 

In the third quarter of 2014, the Chinese mobile games market earned $1.1 billion. This is 9% more than in the second quarter of this year and 73% more than in the third quarter of 2013, – the analytical company iResearch reports.

Analysts of “red Ani” continue a series of publications about mobile gaming markets in different countries. Korea is next in line.

Danish developer and publisher Kiloo will release a new fighting game Smash Champs tomorrow, in which leopards, crocodiles, foxes and other animals will fight each other.

The Appintop podcast interviewed Romuald Zdebsky, head of Mobile games at Microsoft Russia. We publish the printed version of the conversation with the kind permission of the podcast on App2Top.ru .

The authors of Puzzle & Dragons have acquired a 70% stake in the American social gaming network Playphone for an unknown amount.

In the first 9 months of this year, Puzzle & Dragons developers earned $1.22 billion.

Those who haven’t optimized their apps for iOS 8 yet should hurry up. More than half of the users of Apple mobile products have installed a new version of the “Apple” OS.

The authors of Cocos2d-x together with Chartboost, Kochava, PlayFab, Scientific Revenue and Vungle will launch a marketing platform for mobile app developers.