The American company Kabam has acquired TapZen and Magic Pixel Games, two mobile game studios in Los Angeles. 

Hipster Whale studio, which developed Crossy Road, announced that the iOS version of the game with Unity Ads raised a significant amount – $ 1 million.

We bring to your attention a list of the most important January events dedicated to the gaming industry.

In the game selection for Tuesday, we have three projects: Veloz, Hadron Wars and Instant Hero.

Canadian gaming company Behavior Interactive has announced the purchase of a “significant number of mobile projects” from the owners of Zombie Farm. 

The original version of Heroes Charge turned out to be a real box office blockbuster in the Middle Kingdom last November. The game has overtaken both the Asian hit Pop Star and all the products of the giant Tencent in financial terms.

The number of active users of the endless runner from Kiloo is a little more than two times more than that of the most profitable PC MMO of 2014.

Gaming market revenues in Southeast Asia have already reached $1.1 billion and will double by 2017, Newzoo claims.

The number of companies engaged in IT marketing doubled in 2014. To date, their number has reached about two thousand.

We came out of the holidays, and with us – the heading “Releases of the day”. In today’s selection: Hero Pop, “Dictator: Revolution”, Stormfall: Rise of Balur and I Hate Fish.

On the territory of the EU, it became possible to return money for paid iTunes or App Store content – and continue to use it. 

Last week, Apple conducted a major revision of price tags in a number of regional App Stores. The changes affected not only Russia.

How much a game on Windows Phone can earn, why it is better not to use the Russian market for a “soft launch”, what you should pay attention to when porting the game to WP, and many other things were told to us by Sergey Babaev, director of business development at Nekki.

The joint revenue of App Store developers for 2014 amounted to a record $10 billion, – reports Develop-online.

Nintendo, together with GungHo Online Entertainment, will release a special edition of the Puzzle & Dragons game for its 3DS consoles featuring characters from the Super Mario Bros. franchise. 

The mobile games market is increasingly attracting the attention of non-core companies for the industry. Animoca Brands studio was bought by Black Fire Minerals (BFE), specializing in the exploration and production of gold, copper and valuable minerals.

The organizers of the Mobile Games Forum presented a small e-book History Of Mobile Gaming. As a brief squeeze, they published an infographic on the history of mobile games.