During the discussion, moderated by Martin Rae, President of the Academy Of Interactive Arts, four major venture capitalists spoke about their vision of the future of the gaming industry. This is told by GamesIndustry.

Europe’s key event in the mobile gaming industry is gaining momentum. As part of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference (February 7-8, 2014, St. Petersburg), a competition for mobile game developers WN Mobile Games Competition will be held. The main prize is $30,000.

Applift and Newzoo spoke about the current state of the mobile games market and what awaits it in the next three years.

At the GamesBeat 2013 conference currently taking place in California, Kristian Segarstrale, a member of the board of Supercell and one of the founders of Playfish, said that at the moment there is no need for publishers in the mobile market.

Pocket Gamer released funny material in which our colleague John Jordan, commenting on EA’s far from brilliant quarterly results, claims that the gaming giant should have bought a couple of years ago, not PopCap at all.

The cross-content promotion model is becoming increasingly popular on the mobile market (this is when the characters of one project appear in another). Next up is the collaboration between GungHo and Warner Bros.

Last week we started a series of materials about companies selling traffic. A sequel is coming out today. This time we talked to Trademob. 

A few days ago, a presentation of the analytical tool devtodev was held in Moscow. Just below is the text version of the report, which was read at the event by Maria Paskevich, an analyst of the service.

Sony has announced the PlayStation App, a somewhat belated response to Microsoft’s Xbox Glass. It is assumed that the application will make a “second screen” for console titles from the user’s mobile device, the GamesIndustry bulletin reports.

King is preparing for an IPO. The company announced that Ciara Smyth has become the head of the personnel department (CPO) of the company. This is reported by Pocket Gamer.

Chris Carvalho, COO of Kabam, told about this at the GMIC event held in San Francisco the other day. 

The other day, the executive director of Fishlabs, Michael Schade, gave an interview to Pocket Gamer, in which he explained what led the company to bankruptcy, why the studio went to him.

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Last week, Mikhail Katkoff launched a series of articles on midcore. Today we are publishing a slightly revised version of the first material, it is dedicated to game cycles in midcore projects.

One of the world’s largest messengers has announced plans to enter the stock market relatively soon.