From February next year, any application or update to get permission to publish in the App Store will have to support 64-bit code and be built on the iOS 8 SDK.

Japan is one of the most thriving mobile gaming markets these days. Top developers can earn more on it than anywhere else. Not everyone, however, knows how this market grew, about how it all started. And it all started with feature phones.

Microsoft has announced the release of a wearable device. The gadget will be on sale within the next few weeks, according to Forbes.

Finnish mobile platform Jolla, in collaboration with Rovio, has released an Angry Birds-style launcher for its Sailfish operating system.

The Japanese company Quan, the author of projects such as MyStickerShop and Lounge, received investments in the amount of several million dollars.

About the main innovations of Google and Apple, working with Opera Mediaworks, the experience of Room 8 and the shortcomings of the latest Rovio game – in our digest for last week.

The Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game from Glu Mobile has brought its creators $51 million in revenue since its launch in June.

App Annie recently published a report on the mobile app market for the third quarter of 2014. We analyze it in detail.

The advertising network was recently released AdtoApp.com Nikolay Evdokimov, who launched in 2008 SeoPult.ru . The main feature of the new service is the monetization of mobile traffic of Internet sites.

Both the gaming and gambling business in the USA continues to grow (last year alone, the revenue of the gambling entertainment market amounted to $87.1 billion only in the States). However, not everyone has enough.

Rovio and GungHo have agreed on a big cross-promotion between Angry Birds Epic and Puzzle & Dragons.

The Apple company presented a new generation of tablets as part of the October event.

A car runner in the style of “Starsky and Hutch” from BulkyPix, another project in the “Lord of the Rings” universe from Kabam, as well as an unusual mix of X-com and Clash of Clans, are in our selection of releases for this week.

Total downloads of the Doodle God series of games reached the figure of 150 million. A third of them were collected only in the last year.

Despite all my fears that the “three-in-a-row” genre can tire users at one far from perfect moment, this does not happen, which also clearly demonstrates the success of the last game by Petri Järvilehto, who, for a second, was the lead designer on Max Payne 2 and creative director Alan Wake.

Either wanting to annoy Apple, or really hoping to attract attention to itself, the search corporation, the day before the presentation of a new line of “apple” tablets (that is, yesterday), quietly introduced the fifth generation of its mobile OS, and at the same time a number of devices, including a game console, that will work on it.

Angry Birds Transformers, a new game from Rovio, was released yesterday. We managed to play it and, let’s just say, were a little puzzled. After all, they wanted to scold, but it didn’t work out.

The N-Fusion studio, which has become famous in the mobile market mainly for the successful shooter Deus Ex: The Fall and the robust Air Mail arcade, announced an isometric role-playing action, which some Western media have already begun to compare with the Ultima and Baldur’s Gate lines. 

There is nothing left until DevGAMM Minsk 2014. The autumn event, which this time will be held in the capital of Belarus, will open on October 17.