Yesterday KamaGames Studio in its blog on http://habrahabr.ru I published some interesting material about localization. With the kind consent of its authors, we publish the text on the pages App2Top.ru .

The German company Crytek is exploring the mobile free-to-play market. Together with the Japanese giant DeNA, the authors of Crysis are launching The Collectables project.

While Japanese developers are trying to bring butlers to a new level, and Americans are launching them under popular Western brands, Storm8 decided to experiment with a Puzzle & Dragons clone.

The publisher received this amount during the second round of financing. The total amount of funds raised since 2011 has reached $18 million. Investments will be used to expand the publishing business.

Amazon has allowed the gift of virtual currency.

The search giant has announced the launch of an open physics library for two-dimensional projects (2D physics library), a plugin for Unity and new game categories on Google Play.

The Deer Hunter Simulator 2014, which is in the top 10 free apps in the American App Store since its release in July this year, has collected 40 million downloads.

Last night, Kontagent informed its customers about the unity with the Playhaven service. Now it’s one team. 

Urban Airship spoke in numbers about the benefits of push in games. It turned out that they have a minimal impact on retention, but they stimulate engagement very well. 

Newzoo continues to publish infographics dedicated to the gaming markets of different countries. Canada is next in line.

In terms of revenue from mobile markets, the Country of the Rising Sun has overtaken the United States. This happened thanks to the rapid growth in the number of smartphones and tablets.

Rovio has released free-to-play racing games on the world market under the Angry Birds brand. 

During the fall, the runner from Gameloft scored another 50 million installations. So the total number of downloads has reached a crushing 150 million. 

In the third quarter of 2013, revenues from the Chinese mobile games market amounted to $587 million. This is 75% more than this market earned in the same period last year.

  December 5, 2013