We continue to publish the most interesting messages that come in connection with the ChinaJoy 2013 conference in Shanghai. This time there are new data on the size of the Chinese mobile games market for the first half of 2013.

Last spring, Google announced the appearance of a game hub on Android, similar in functionality to Game Center on iOS, at its own conference for developers. Yesterday the company launched it on Google Play.

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The St. Petersburg team JoyBits reported that the total number of downloads of its three Doodle games exceeded the 100 million mark. Most of them came from Flash portals. 

China is currently the leader in the number of active iOS and Android devices in the world. Its growth rates are still at a very high level. In this regard, as well as with the conference, China Joy Flurry shared data on the mobile market of China.

At the ChinaJoy conference, the executive director of Shanda Games Xiangdong Zhang said that the turnover of the Chinese mobile games market at the moment is about $160 million per quarter.

EA earned $90 million on mobile games in three months, the company said in its financial report for the first quarter of 2014.

Auroch Digital together with Games Workshop will release a mobile version of the 1987 board game Chainsaw Warrior. It will be possible to go in search of the source of evil in zombie-infested New York this summer.

While Firefox OS is trying to conquer the world with budget devices, Sailfish OS is receiving support from Chinese manufacturers, and Tizen is hiding behind Samsung – Canonical is raising money for the first smartphone using crowdfunding.

The postponement of a number of game releases cost the largest Chinese social network losses of $29 million, as well as sales, 10% less than expected.

Chris Williams, Vice President and CEO of Big Fish for Free-to-play, revealed 5 major mistakes in the development of shareware games at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

Tim Shafer continues to spend the money collected on Kickstarter last year on creating projects that are not related to quests. 

 

Rovio has announced the global launch of the Rovio Account cross-platform service, which was launched this spring on iOS and Android.

The main innovation of Unity 4.2 is support for Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10. The developers also announced the appearance of deferred shading in the mobile version of the engine.

Do you like to think with your head? We present to your attention a new iOS application where you will need all your vocabulary and excellent erudition.

The next meeting of the St. Petersburg Applications Club will take place this Thursday in St. Petersburg. Its participants will discuss the interfaces of mobile applications.

Video from the round table at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, where representatives of Big Fish, FishLabs and Nival figured out what casual, midcore and hardcore games are.

Rovio announced Angry Birds Star Wars 2, Kabam was valued at $700 million, Clash of Clans got into the top 3 of Japanese grossing, I-Free talked about the Chinese market – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.