The Appintop podcast interviewed Evgeny Kim, a Yandex representative.Store and the head of the Developer relations team. We publish the printed version of the material with the kind permission of the podcast on App2Top.ru .

Fans of the game Dragons of Atlantis decided to boycott the Kabam product. This is the second time. They are unhappy with the price increase.

The infamous fame of the author of Flappy Bird continues to grow. The release of the new Swing Copters game provoked a conflict: the developers of the Bog Racer application accuse Dong Nguyen of plagiarism.

There are many copies, but the real LINE Rangers is one. A mobile hit in the tower defense genre recently broke the record – 20 million downloads. It happened right on the day of the “birth” of the project: the game was released exactly six months ago. The app has managed to reach the top of the AppStore charts in Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia and Japan.

Static Sky, a Framebunker shooter, is getting ready to be released on iPad. The game uses the Unity engine, and the action develops in the classic gloomy scenery of dystopia.

Gambling in the People’s Republic of China is strictly prohibited (with the rare exception of some autonomous regions, such as Macau). This week it became known that a meeting will be held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, during which the issue of gambling in the mobile segment of the industry will be discussed.

At the end of the week, Nightmare Cooperative is released by Lucky Frame, the creators of Bad Hotel and Wave Trip. The Scottish studio promises that its new game will make users forget about the world around them.

GungHo, the creator of the Puzzle & Dragons game, is selling a 20% stake in Supercell to its parent company SoftBank. The profit from the transaction is estimated at $74 million.

Japanese publisher and mobile game developer Gumi is opening four new studios in Europe and the USA. The company’s branches will be located in Austin, Vancouver, Stockholm and Kiev. Their goal will be the development of the Western market.The company also plans to open an office in San Francisco; the latter’s goal will be business development and public relations.

Game manufacturers are sounding the alarm, because the established monetization schemes bring less and less profit, and intrusive advertising scares the buyer away rather than attracts. Tinyloot has found an unexpected solution to the problem. The service will pay users money for the time they spend in the game.

The clones won’t pass. Leading app stores have “blocked the oxygen” to numerous copies of the new game by the creator of Flappy Bird.

The Finnish team Almost Human is developing a mobile version of Legend of Grimrock, a nostalgic “bagel” that was very warmly welcomed by the press and PC players two years ago.