At the Winter Nights 2014 conference, Simon Podd from Flurry answered several questions to our editorial staff.

What could Threes be? How much has the market for mobile platform games changed over the past year? As well as interviews with the creators of “Natives and Castles”, Brave Tales and Dungelot in the traditional selection of the best materials App2Top.ru for the past week. 

The management of the Line messenger has completed a study of the Russian market. And today we see the first fruits of this preparatory work. Stickers in Russian began to be sold on the platform. 

The European Commission, the highest executive authority of the European Union, is concerned that applications with IAP are called free. 

Game Insight producer Vyacheslav Kokorev shared with App2Top.ru the story of the creation of the first part of the “Natives” and told about the key innovations of the sequel.

The founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company and Digital Chocolate, Trip Hawkins, has raised almost $6.5 million to finance a new startup If You Can. The developer wants to create both games and educational applications at once. 

The tablet market may no longer grow as fast as it used to; Square Enix reported 1 million downloads from Deadman’s Cross; Google announced that a modular smartphone will be released in a year and will cost from $50.

The analytical company App Annie together with IDC last night presented the traditional quarterly report on the market of games for mobile and portable platforms. We offer its full Russian version.

In the blog of KamaGames Studio on habrahabr.ru there is a curious material about what awaits our industry this year. With the kind permission of our colleagues from KamaGames Studio, we publish this material on App 2 Top.ru .

About mobile engines, mobile game development and the future of match 3 edition App2Top.ru I talked to the chief producer of Renatus Media.

How can a gaming company be interested in registering a trademark, editorial office App2Top.ru Vladislav Arkhipov, an adviser to the international law firm Dentons, told the audience. 

App Annie presented as many as three materials about the market situation; Swrve shocked with information about exactly how many players are willing to pay for free content; Facebook reports that most referrals come from the social network’s mobile application.

Since February 19, complaints of domestic mobile application developers about blocking their iOS accounts and deleting applications have started to appear on the Runet. 

At the Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Samsung announced support for multi-screen games made on Unity.

The company Bash Gaming, the authors of Bingo Bash, was acquired by GSN Games, operating the gambling portal of the same name. The transaction amount is estimated at $160 – $170 million. 

Yesterday it became known that the authors of Candy Crush Saga are abandoning their plans to consolidate the word Candy as the intellectual property of King in the US digital products market.

At the Winter Nights 2014 conference, Konstantin Dieterle from AppLift answered several questions to our editorial staff.

Vlambeer are dissatisfied with the Dutch government; Deus Ex: The Fall is being ported from the mobile platform to the PC; a new game in the world of Warhammer 40K is a clone of Plants vs. Zombies – this and much more in the news for Tuesday, February 25.

Analytical company Think Gaming has launched a free Scouting Reports service. With its help, developers will be able to find out what is wrong in their project, and publishers will find potential hits.