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

This Thursday, apart from the release of iOS 8, which required your humble servant some inadequate 6 GB to install, was a little disappointing. There were no cool releases, such as when you put the game on and realize: I will play it at least until next Thursday. See for yourself.

So, you want to create a mobile app, and you have an idea, inspiration, an original name, and even, if you’re lucky, money.

Some time ago, some Russian publications made a fuss about the fact discovered by Flurry analysts: women play on mobile devices more than men. We offer you to get acquainted with the full version of the presentation, where there is much more interesting data.

King company will not continue working on games for Windows Phone yet, writes the French online edition Pocketgamer.fr .

Let’s start with a not very rhetorical question: will MMORPGs made according to the patterns of the “classical school” be able to take root on mobile platforms (read, will the ideological heirs of World of Warcraft and Lineage be financially successful on smartphones and tablets)?

After lengthy legal proceedings, the creators of the Candy Crush Saga megahit decided to part amicably with the plagiarist company 6Waves.

iOS 8 was released today, within which developers have a new opportunity to sell their apps and games in packs (or bundles, or, according to the Russian version of the App Store, packages). 

Only the day before yesterday we wrote that Mail.Ru The Group has brought its stake in VKontakte to 100%, as it became known today that the Russian giant has put its protege at the head of the social network.

Goat Simulator game has been released on mobile platforms. If you have long wanted to feel like a goat (we mean a cloven-hoofed animal), here is your chance.

Investors in mobile games have a hangover,” venture capitalist Rick Thompson, who earned about $5 billion from subsidizing and selling gaming startups, said at the GamesBeat 2014 conference.

Media giant Lionsgate believes that video games should play a significant role in the company’s future.

Jeff Lyndon, one of the founders and executive vice president of iDreamSky, spoke about the difference between Chinese and Western casual game players at the GamesBeat 2014 conference in San Francisco.

Chobolabs is going to create hardcore multiplayer games for mobile devices. To this end, the studio has already raised $ 1.3 million.

In 40% of cases, when it comes to making certain decisions, Kixeye is based on data analysis. In other cases, they follow intuition, said Kixeye CEO Will Harbin.

Mobio advertising agency together with the Russian group of the international association IAB presented a map of the Russian mobile advertising market for this year, – writes Cossa.ru .

A new project from Rovio Stars is coming out on Thursday. The new title is dedicated not to birds, as you might think, but to pirates.

German publisher and developer Wooga opens an office in Tokyo. In the future, the company plans to work closely with Asian colleagues.

David Helgason, executive Director of Unity, believes that the era of “stagnation” has come in the gaming industry, especially mobile. Companies like King and Supercell are at the top of the charts month after month and, according to Helgason, it’s terrible. According to him, the times when there was constant movement in the rating were much more interesting.