The Spanish publisher of social games is increasing its presence in the mobile games market. The company is doing so well that its representatives assure that in 2014 Social Point will earn $ 100 million.

Report by Jaime Ocampo from DeNA at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

The studio that created Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and Bejeweled has laid off 30 employees. 

According to the latest data for 2013, there are more than 700 million smartphones in China, according to the Chinese analytical company Umeng. 

Unity has acquired the authors of the Everyplay service, which allows you to record the gameplay in mobile games, the reaction to user events using the front camera, as well as embed video ads.

Mathematicians have proved that Candy Crush is a complex game; a Chinese publisher invests $ 600 million in mobile games; Techcrunch claims that the game console market is in crisis – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Thursday, March 13.

Presentation by Pavel Ryakkonen, Distribution Director of Nevosoft, at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

The Finnish company continues to experiment with game mechanics. The new game under the Angry Birds brand, whose “soft” launch will take place on March 16, will be a turn-based role-playing game.

Backflip has taken up publishing games; Little Big Adventure will appear on mobile platforms in March; what spoils the App Store according to Edge magazine – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Wednesday, March 12.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga plan that the price of one share of the company according to the results of the initial placement will be $21-$24. 

On the pages of the March issue of Rolling Stone appeared the story of the creation of one of the main phenomena of the mobile games market this year – the game Flappy Bird. 

At the Winter Nights 2014 Conference Giuseppe Bellanca from MobileAppTracking answered a few questions to our editorial staff.

Failure stories rarely end well, but Green Throttle Games, which released a gamepad for Android games a year ago, was lucky. Today it became known that Google acquired it (or rather what was left of it). 

Big Fish has implemented Bitcoin support, Chartboost has started supporting product placement, Kongregate is launching a mobile game based on Game of Thrones – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Tuesday, March 11.

Another couple of years and the Chinese mobile games market may well overtake the American one in terms of earnings. The Newzoo company told in detail about the Chinese market in its latest research.

N-Fusion together with Unity Games announced a cross-platform simulator Space Noir.

Having earned over $360 million last year, the American company Kabam decided to diversify its business by buying the Phoenix Age studio based in San Francisco. 

How much the Chinese pay in mobile games, how many mobile Internet users there are in Russia, why you should not focus on data collection and analysis – this and not only in our digest of the best materials for the past week. 

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has demanded that Apple introduce a number of changes that tighten the rules for making purchases inside apps for iOS and Mac.