The second round table at the Winter Nights 2014 conference. It was attended by representatives of Playhaven, Distimo, Apportable and Grand Cru Games.

Puzzle Threes! it appeared in the App Store in early February (now the game is in the top ten of the paid top of the US App Store). Less than a month has passed, and projects have appeared on the market that almost exactly copy its game mechanics.

Only lazy people don’t talk about the success of Puzzle & Dragons in Japan: 25 million downloads, conquering the top 3 box office games on iOS, Android and 3DS, earning over $ 1 billion. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, everything is not so smooth: a slow starting acceleration and “only” 3 million downloads per year.

In the first quarter of 2014 alone, about 5 million smartphones worth 44 billion rubles were sold in Russia,”Svyaznoy reports.

Free-to-play needs advertising, and advertising in free-to-play – this is the conclusion that the latest study by WildTangent, EA and IHS can push to.

While everyone is waiting for a new revolution from Apple, Google together with Philips are going to release TVs based on Android 4.4 this summer. 

A report by John Gargiulo from BlueStacks at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

How Puzzle & Dragons was developed; why Facebook bought Oculus Rift; how many users Game Insight has on Windows platforms – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the past week.

Advertising company Manage.com announced the launch of the platform AppSponsor.com , which allows you to embed working demo versions inside mobile applications as ads. 

Subset Games announced that the popular space roguelike FTL: Faster Than Light will appear on the iPad on the third of April. The game is released without IAP, its cost in the App Store will be $ 9.99.

The first round table at the Winter Nights 2014 conference dedicated to the general state of affairs in the mobile industry. It was attended by representatives of Mail.Ru , Kama Games and Yandex.

Following the release of the browser strategy Game of Thrones: Ascent on Facebook, Kongregate launched the game on the App Store.

The British company is not having the easiest time right now – it receives most of its revenue from one game, whose popularity is beginning to fade. That’s why King needs a new hit. If it doesn’t, the stock price will continue to fall. 

Without five minutes, the cult adventure game Monument Valley, inspired by Escher’s works and the game Fez, will be released on the digital shelves of the App Store and Google Play in a week.

The Japanese mobile games market grew by 178% last year compared to 2012. The market volume is estimated at 546.8 billion rubles ($5.4 billion), according to CyberZ marketing and advertising agency.

King held an initial public offering, during which it raised about $500 million. 22.2 million shares were sold, the capitalization of the entire company was $7.1 billion.

During a press conference dedicated to the purchase of Oculus VR, Mark Zuckerberg said that last week the number of users of the mobile version of the social network reached 1 billion people.