There are still very few details about the Tizen platform. What will it look like, what kind of store will it have, how many applications will it have at launch? One thing is for sure: there will definitely be games on Tizen.

Last Thursday, Gartner introduced the report, according to which this year the number of downloads from mobile markets will amount to 102 billion. We offer you a short story about how we tried to understand what Gartner analysts meant by these figures.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Vice President for Asia John Goodale spoke about multiplatform games in Asia.

More than three months ago we took from Mail.Ru Group interview in connection with the release of their project Jungle Heat on Google Play. After the game appeared on iOS, we decided to ask publishers about how they worked on its promotion on Android, and what they expect from the App Store. 

Pixonic has shared with us an interesting article about how to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising by ROI indicator.

About the most notable and not only game releases in our game digest for the past week. 

Why users have announced a boycott of Kabam, Zynga is suspected of cheating ratings, and in Russia it is necessary to develop games about Putin – read our article about scandals in the gaming industry.

The average check from Candy Crush Saga; the secret of creating perfect screenshots; the latest statistics on mobile market earnings from Gartner – this and much more in our traditional digest.

Following DeNA, Capcom announced a full-fledged JRPG blockbuster for mobile devices called Blade Fantasia.

An American company headed by Kevin Cho is trying to implement the Japanese experience of DeNA in the Western market, using its own franchise as leverage.

Gartner analysts have published a very controversial report on the state of the mobile app market. What and how, read in our material.

Screenshots sell. The way the game looks in the pictures in the description of the application is of decisive importance for most users today. The only question is how to make the screenshots attractive?

This wonderful game for kids will allow you to download your kids’ favorite characters from the internet or a photo album and use them in the game.

Wooga has announced an update to its Diamond Dash puzzle, offering iPhone and iPad users the Global Tournament mode. At the same time, the German studio shared statistics on the game.

According to Serkana Toto, the Japanese company Colopl, specializing in mobile games, is rated higher than GREE. The reason for this is the successful launch of the company on the stock exchange last December.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, i-Free Publishing Director Nadezhda Antsiferova spoke about various approaches to game publishing.

Using brands in apps is a double–edged sword. Moreover, both for developers and for holders of a particular franchise. 

We thought a little about why we need games “based on movies”, and at the same time we remembered that a game about Riddick’s adventures will soon appear on the App Store.