Asphalt Overdrive from Gameloft will be released on Thursday. The game will be the ninth in the series.

In the mobile advertising market, big brands have a small problem. The fact is that today it has become the norm to pay for advertising to users. There is no need to go far for examples. In the Subway Surfers already mentioned today, the user is offered a soft currency for watching the video (although a completely ridiculous amount).

The developer of online games gamigo AG announced the purchase of the publisher of casual games Intenium.

Last week, the MOGA Rebel gamepad went on sale on the official MOGA website. And now it can be purchased in the Apple Store.

The Kiip mobile advertising network has announced the launch of a new product – Kiip Rewarded Video. It has two key points: a high VTR and a high price.

EA Mobile together with EA Sports have released FIFA 15 Ultimate Team on mobile devices.

The Danish Kiloo team, famous for the Subway Surfers runner (our analysis of the game can be read here), announced a new project – Smash Champs.

Eric Benjamin Seufert, a leading marketer at Wooga, shared his thoughts on who we should thank for the high prices for mobile advertising.

German developer Wooga has introduced its new CFO. He became Marion Trautbeck-Kim (Dr. Marion Trautbeck-Kim), Doctor of Sciences in Economics and Finance.

Monster Strike, a Japanese hit from Mixi, is entering the international arena.

The French company Kobojo announced a new title for PlayStation Vita and iOS called Zodiac during the Tokyo Game Show.

Some time ago, VKontakte announced plans to introduce mobile advertising into its applications. A couple of weeks ago, testing began on the Android platform. We talked about this topic with Andrey Novoselsky, who is responsible for “launching new advertising products and optimizing existing ones” on the social network.

The Polish developer of Digital Melody, the creator of the Timberman title, has teamed up with Cashplay, a service that offers players the opportunity to receive cash prizes during cyber competitions.

At the moment when Samsung introduced its virtual reality helmet, created in conjunction with Oculus and supporting work with the Galaxy Note 4, it became clear that this niche, at least, would hook the mobile industry. The news about the expansion of the strategic partnership between Unity and Oculus only strengthens our suspicions.

After not the most successful sales of the free-to-play AntiSquad Tactics project, the developers from the InsGames studio took an unexpected step: they brought a paid version of the game to the market without IAP, but at the same time they left a free version of the game with micropayments in the stores.

The creators of Fruit Ninja promise that users will receive a serious update.

The charity company Playmob and the Finnish developer Rovio have announced the launch of a joint charity event.

San Francisco-based studio TinyCo paid a fine of $300,000 for violating the agreement on the protection of private user information belonging to children (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule or COPPA).

The new iOS 8 operating system supports the WebGL API.