The other day, Jan Koum reported that the MAU of the WhatsApp messenger exceeded 600 million. The CEO and co-founder of the app is sure that his brainchild has left far behind all rivals. Is it so? Let’s try to figure it out.

Not only GameMaker is following in the footsteps of Unity, but also Epic, which recently announced the launch of a set of content for the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

Following the news about the development by Backflip of a game in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, it was reported that Beamdog studio is preparing to reissue another classic on Infinity Engine on tablets.

Square Enix continues to bring its classics to the mobile market. Following the reissue of the first six parts of Final Fantasy, the company plans to publish the first three parts of Dragon Quest in the very near future.

The Finnish giant continues to storm. Over the past few days, Rovio has been receiving the third news about serious changes in the company’s management staff.

Today is not only the Day of Knowledge, in which schoolchildren with lean faces load their satchels with textbooks and pencils, but also the birthday of our website dedicated to all aspects of the mobile games market.

Last week, the analytical company App Annie presented the Russian mobile market index, telling about the main events of the domestic App Store and Google Play of the past July.

Katsumi Oikawa will become the new Regional Director of Rovio Japan. The appointment takes effect on September 1.

In Russia, from August 29 to October 2, Happy Meal baby kits in McDonald’s fast food chains are sold under the Cut the Rope brand. 

At the PAX Festival in Seattle, Backflip Studios announced that it would launch the game under a D&D license.

Editorial Office App2Top.ru offers to get acquainted with a selection of the central materials of our resource for the past week.

Disney together with the popular Asian messenger LINE launched a joint project.  The game of the genre “three in a row” occupied the top lines of the charts. The popularity of the application forced LINE to release plush Disney Tsum Tsum characters.

The creator of Angry Birds and the president of Rovio Mikael Hed (Mikael Hed) in January next year will give up his place to the former vice president of marketing of Nokia Pekka Rantala (Pekka Rantala).

After much flirting with the press, Apple has finally set a release date for its new products.  The presentation will take place on September 9.

Recently it became known that the Russian company Innova is entering the mobile market as a publisher of games under the brand “Fogame”. In connection with this announcement, we interviewed Maxim Kirilenko, the company’s leading mobile project development manager.

About 70% of British game developers make projects for mobile platforms, according to a study conducted by TIGA and ARM.

Two days ago it became known that Amazon, not Google, acted as the buyer of the Twitch video game broadcast service. In connection with this purchase, we asked the leading mobile video advertising companies about what the deal might turn out to be for the market.

Compared to the previous year, the profit of the Chinese social media platform Renren decreased by 42% and amounted to $25 million. Revenue from sales of online games is $15.1 million, which is 27% less than in the same period in 2013.