Teemu Huuhtanen left Rovio to create his own studio – Next Games.

Interviews about the first indicators of Jungle Heat, secrets of advertising effectiveness by ROI, key features of the new OS from Amazon – this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

At the end of August, smartphones in Russia for the first time surpassed conventional mobile handsets in terms of the number of devices sold, Vedomosti reports with reference to the Svyaznoy, M.Video and Euroset networks. 

Appnext, a company engaged in the monetization of social app traffic, claims that from 10% to 30% of revenue to games is generated by embedded advertising. And developers should not forget about it, much less ignore it.

About this slogan was adopted on Facebook. The social network has announced work on updating an advertising algorithm designed to improve the relevance and quality of ads.

A domestic tool for collecting mobile analytics and advertising has appeared on the market – devtodev. 

The author of the Deconstructor of Fun blog has left the post of product manager at Supercell. His new place of work is the American Scopely.

 September 16, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Almost every day, every happy owner of an iPhone or iPod Touch takes pictures with it. And, of course, I always want these pictures to be good, and preferably also from the first time.

Microsoft Corporation plans to merge the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store into a single app store. 

It’s not long to wait for the appearance of one of the main games of 2012-2013 on Google Play. The Finns recently announced the launch of the Clash of Clans Android beta. 

A new Marsh Brothers game appeared on the App Store yesterday. Economic sim about the railway and locomotives – Pocket Trains. Our small review is just below.

The British company King has applied for an initial placement of securities in the United States. It is expected that its value on the exchange will be more than $ 5 billion.

Amazon has announced the launch of the third version of its own Android firmware for Kindle Fire tablets. 

The American company Stardock has announced the opening of Stardock Mobile. The new division will create original games for mobile platforms. This is told by the industrial portal GamesIndustry International.

We have not once or twice heard players sigh, dreaming of the appearance of full-fledged hardcore titles on mobile platforms. And so it happened – Shadowrun Returns, a role-playing game with an action a la XCOM, was released on iOS today.