The mobile games industry is growing, and independent developers are having more and more problems with it. Big companies with tight wallets come to the market. Chris Gray from TapStar told how to compete with them.

App Annie specialists have published an overview of the mobile market for the second quarter of 2013.

The Korean messenger Kakao “lowered the bar”. Starting in August, it is enough for a mobile game to meet only one of two conditions to enter the Kakao Game Platform.

Last Friday, the third meeting of the St. Petersburg Applications Club took place, which we attended. About how it was – in our brief report.

Former EA Executive Director John Riccitiello told Casual Connect what mobile developers should do today. 

About the need to raise new topics in games, about those who have already done it, about the game about Snowden and Microsoft’s political advertising – read our short material. 

A shelf of publishers has arrived: Wooga has announced that it is no longer an independent developer distributing and promoting its games independently, but a full-fledged publisher.

At least the main news of this week, an event that in the near future will completely change the situation on the App Store and Google Play gaming market: Facebook has announced that it is taking up the publication of mobile games.

A large article by the head of one of the Wooga studios Antti Hattara appeared on Pocket Gamer about how to choose the right project to launch. A brief retelling is in the material just below.  

Chinese messenger WeChat enters the gaming market this August after Kakao and LINE.

Gearbox president Randy Pitchford admitted on Twitter that at the moment his company is thinking about the possibility of porting Homeworld to the iPad.

On August 3, as part of the Geek Picnic festival, held annually in St. Petersburg, the Geek Apps conference dedicated to the development and promotion of mobile applications will open. 

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Artem Makarov, a representative of Trademob in Russia, spoke about how real-time bidding can help in promoting mobile games.

Western companies are actively investing in the Finnish game studio Grand Cru, which has not yet managed to release a single project. Yesterday it became known about the next round of financing.

Two months ago, the search company introduced Google Play game services, a whole set of tools for game developers. The other day, the company shared his first successes.

A Chinese mobile company has announced that it has started earning $12 million a month. Its sales for the current year may amount to a solid $ 150 million.

The first day of August promises to be especially hot, not only because of the summer season – in just a few days, the intense preparation for the release of a new social game will be rewarded with a vengeance!

Last December, Full Control Studio promised to release Space Hulk, an adaptation of the classic 1989 Warhammer 40K board game, this summer. And last Friday, it “happened” – pre-orders opened in the Steam store for a novelty.

Arkadium, using the example of its games, notes a 35% increase in the number of active users among owners of Windows 8 devices. In this scenario, the iOS application market seems less stable to them.