“People have less money“: based on the sales figures of mobile electronics, the head of Euroset, Alexander Malis, reports on the beginning of the consumer crisis in Russia.

What to learn from the authors of Candy Crush Saga, how much the mobile gaming market in Germany earned in 2013, how many smartphones Russians purchased last year – the answers to these and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week.  

The Chinese government has introduced its own operating system – China Operating System (COS). The new OS should compete with Android and iOS.

Yodo1, the publisher of Western games in the Chinese market, attracted 100 million users from China. In particular, the expansion of the user base was due to the release of Cut the Rope 2.

What to download this week from the App Store? Read about it in our note.

Ninja Metrics has announced the launch of Katana Social Analytics Engine. The new service will help developers identify the most important users of a mobile application by measuring the “social value” of each user.

This is 51% more than in 2012, according to a study by the domestic retailer Svyaznoy. 75% of the gadgets sold work on Android.

Agawi has introduced the AppGlimpse streaming service, which transforms mobile advertising into trial versions of games. 

Today it became known about two difficult events for a startup at once: its vice president for product development left Ouya, and the company that created games for the platform closed. 

How much does it cost to develop a console game, why they don’t pay off, and also once again about why free-to-play (whether we want it or not) is the future, in our material.

Square Enix breaks traditions. The company published the sixth part of Final Fantasy on Google Play before the release on the App Store. 

According to the results of last year, digital sales of games in the United States went twice ahead of retail, according to SuperData.

Counting clones of Clash of Clans is pointless now. They come out on mobile markets almost every day. However, it makes sense to take a closer look at some of them.

The upcoming conference will feature presentations by Apple iOS 7, King, Gameloft, DeNA, Rovio, Warner Bros. and many others. Also, 1 million rubles will be raffled among game developers.

The average application development time for iOS and WP platforms is longer than for Android, experts from Evans Data assure in the latest report.

Thanks to the growth of the mobile and online games market, the total revenue of the gaming industry could reach a shocking $100 billion in three years, according to Digi-Capital.