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.

A few days ago, extensive material appeared on the pages of Rossiyskaya Gazeta devoted to the growing popularity of domestic animated characters. As part of the article, data on the use of the Internet by children in Russian cities with millions were disclosed.

The authors of Clash of Clans and Boom Beach have finally decided to move towards game merchandising. A few days ago, a vacancy for a licensing and merchandising manager appeared on the company’s website.

Less than six months have passed, and Epic has pleased its users with an updated version of its engine. There is a feeling that it is not far from a full-fledged “five”.

At the end of September, the Piano City music game from the Kiev Room 8 team was released on the App Store. The project not only received a feature on the iTunes Home Page in 127 countries, but was also recognized by Apple as one of the best games of September. So we couldn’t get past the release of Piano City, and talked about the fate of the project with Ninel Gruner, marketing director of…

Today, there are a huge number of marketing and advertising platforms on the market offering various services, such as getting to the top. The developers decide whether to use them or not in each individual case, based on the tasks set (increasing visibility, holding a position, testing the project, and so on).

The St. Petersburg company Nevosoft has announced the date of the sixth WN Mobile Games Conference.

In the MobileDevHQ study by Tune (previously the conglomerate worked under the HasOffers and MobileAppTracking brands), the following research result is given for the main discovery: half of mobile users found the last downloaded application in the search results.

In mid-September, just against the background of then-rumors about Microsoft’s plans to buy Mojang, information appeared that, they say, Unity is also looking for a “host”. The amount was called within the framework of $1 billion – $2 billion.

We have already written about collaborations today. Here’s another one: developer and publisher Imangi Studios and NFLPlayers Inc., the marketing arm of the National Football League Players Association, have announced that some of the top NFL players will appear in the Temple Run 2 project.

Almost half of users are willing to pay monthly for a subscription to their favorite app, according to a survey conducted by mobile software development company Branchfire.

An Assassin’s Creed Identity soft lunch was held in Australia on iPhone and iPad. It is expected that the title will soon be available in the USA.

The Appintop podcast interviewed Dmitry Lyulka, Business Development Manager at Opera Mediaworks. We publish the printed version of the conversation with the kind permission of the podcast on App2Top.ru .