Most mobile app developers earn less than $500 a month, according to the latest report from Mobile Vision.

The organizers of Europe’s largest conference for developers and publishers of mobile games shared the first results of the event: Winter Nights 2014 was attended by more than 700 representatives of mobile companies.

February 7, Saint Petersburg, Park Inn Pulkovskaya Hotel. The largest conference in Eastern Europe dedicated to the development of mobile games, Winter Nights 2014 has opened its doors.

Officially, Winter Nights 2014 will open only tomorrow, but today the conference participants are going to a pre-party at the Park Inn Pulkovskaya, which is organized by Distimo and Nevosoft.

Video games have been considered art for a couple of years. But is it possible to extend this term to mobile games?

A simple game about a yellow bird occupied the download charts in the leading Western markets. Behind her, the first places in the American, British, Canadian App Store and Google Play. But how much is it in dollars?

The success of The Walking Dead has returned the interest of developers of mobile and not only games to the episodic model of content distribution. But is everything so good in the “Danish Kingdom”?

Yesterday, Game Insight announced a new game – Cloud Raiders: Sky Conquest. It’s about pirates and giant flying islands. 

Microsoft has named a new executive director. Steve Ballmer was replaced by Satya Nadella. He is a veteran who has worked in the company for more than 20 years. The new head of the largest IT corporation in the world wears glasses, enjoys cricket and loves innovation.

Yesterday, an article by Eric Sefert, head of marketing at Wooga, appeared on the pages of Mobile Dev Memo. In it, Eric talked about the art of “soft” launching mobile applications and the importance of traffic sources. We offer you the Russian version of the material. 

According to Sergey Galenkin, one of the leading industrial bloggers of the Runet, everyone is tired of mobile games, it’s time to write that the market is “in the dark.” Is it so?

The first mobile game that officially overcame the bar of one billion dollars earned was a card butler with elements of Match-3 – Puzzle & Dragons.

The release of the mobile version of Dungeon Keeper caused a wave of criticism. Fans of the original game were not ready for the mobile continuation of the cult series. 

The secret of NaturalMotion’s success and its purchase by Zynga, King’s response to accusations of theft, advice from Facebook and the reaction to them from Pixonic – this and much more in our traditional digest for the past week.

Last week, App Annie summed up the results of last year, telling about the main events of 2013. 

Kingdoms At War by A Thinking Ape ranked 8th in the iPhone box office top in 2010, 13th in 2011. Then the game spent a couple of years in the top 40, and a month ago broke into the top twenty. How does this ancient project still manage to make a profit?

Last week, Flappy Bird took first place among the free apps of the App Store and Google Play. The simplicity of the game’s graphics is compensated by a rather complex gameplay, which probably caused its popularity.

Last December, a record average number of daily downloads for 2013 was recorded in the United States. At the same time, there was a slight drop in the cost of a loyal user.