The main thing for the week (19.08 – 23.08)

Last week – the first information about Winter Nights 2014 appeared; the volumes of the US mobile gaming market for July became known; Japanese studios opposed the monopoly of GREE and DeNA; Big Fish closed a studio in Vancouver, as well as much more.  

MondayWinter Nights 2014 will take place in February

Registration for the Winter Nights 2014 conference, which will be held in St. Petersburg on February 7-8, 2014, has opened.

The volume of the US mobile market amounted to $278 million in JulyThe revenues of the American mobile games market for July amounted to $ 278 million, according to analysts at SuperData.

Tuesday

Developers are in no hurry on Android30% of the top iPad apps are missing from Google Play, Canalys found.

Wooga: analytics is not the main thingWooga offers to “take care” of the players so that developers can get the maximum profit from the growing market of social games.

The company believes that the main thing is love, it will not be replaced by analytics.

Wednesday

Japanese studios are rioting15 Japanese companies are creating a single platform for cross-promotion, The Nikkei business newspaper reports.

Plants vs. Zombies 2 diverges “like hot cakes”Yesterday at Gamescom 2013, EA announced that Plants vs. Zombies 2 was downloaded more than 16 million times in less than a week (the world release of the game took place on August 14).

Mobile Dungeon Keeper AnnouncedThe classics are coming back.

EA has announced that this winter, the cult series of the late 90s Dungeon Keeper will be relaunched on iOS and Android.

Management Tips from 11 bit StudiosAnomaly Warzone Earth producer Stan Just from 11 bit Studios spoke at GDC about popular types of game studio management, as well as which one works best.

Thursday

Mobile and Portable Games Market OverviewApp Annie company together with IDC presented the next quarterly report on the situation on the market of mobile and portable games.

Big Fish has closed a studio in Vancouver49 people will be fired from the company, another 70 will be transferred to Seattle, said Big Fish executive director and founder Paul Thelen in a letter to colleagues.

5 tips for free-to-play economicsBen Sipe from the marketing company NativX (formerly W3i) told on the pages of his blog what needs to be done to increase retention and improve monetization in a mobile free-to-play project.

Friday

EEDAR about those who pay in mobile games”Whales” are young men who spend a lot of time playing console games.

Unexpectedly, yes.

Nevosoft games will appear on the consoleThe library of games for the Gamepop console will be replenished with titles TinyCo, Animoca, Game Circus, Creative Mobile and the domestic company Nevosoft.

Alawar launches the game on LINEThe domestic company Alawar recently announced the imminent release of its Shake Spears game!

within the Japanese social platform LINE.

Ballmer leaves MicrosoftMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer will leave his post within the next 12 months.

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