The arrival of big brands on the mobile market and their marketing experiments have raised the cost of users to a record value.

Amiga Games will release a large number of iconic retro video games on iOS devices. This is reported by iMore.

San Francisco-based GameSalad has signed a contract with Amazon. As part of the cooperation, the company will offer the tools necessary for publishing indie games on Kindle Fire tablets. This is reported by the Venturebeat portal.

With the kind permission of Alexey Pontyakov, mobile Games analyst Mail.Ru Group, we will repost with habrahabr.ru his material is about how to correctly calculate the average revenue from the user.  

About the difficulties of promoting mobile games and the importance of ratings in the App Store in his article on App2Top.ru Galina Divakova, a project manager at the Cliskky company, told us.  

 

Yesterday on Google Play, a year and a half after the release on the App Store, one of the main gaming phenomena of last year appeared – the Finnish PvP builder Clash of Clans.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we interviewed the producer of Rovio Stars, the publishing division of Rovio, Anastasios Katapodis

Dan Taylor, who participated in the development of Killzone, Medal of Honor and Max Payne 3, on the pages of Gamasutra spoke about the main ten principles of game design. 

The first mobile game made on the Project Anarchy engine from Havok has been released on Google Play.

The first details about Cut the Rope 2, the introduction of deep links and new DeNA credit cards are in our digest for last week.  

Kabam is going to close its browser title Imperium: Galactic Wars, which will lead to the dismissal of 23 employees of the studio located in Austin, Texas. The company intends to focus on mobile applications.

Gamevil has announced its intention to acquire Korean publisher and developer Com2us. This deal has already been dubbed the most important step towards the consolidation of the region.

What is PuzDra Shock, why did the Japanese start developing native applications, and DeNA and GREE are no longer the main ones in the market of games of the Land of the Rising Sun? 

Last Friday, Disney announced that Star Wars: Tiny Death Star is in development. Its creation is being done by the authors of Tiny Tower and Pocket Trains – the NimbleBit studio.

On October 10, the App movie is released, which we are recommended to watch with a phone, having previously downloaded a special application there. The idea is interesting, let’s look at the implementation.