The main thing for the week (20.10.2014 - 26.10.2014)

Unity has replaced the CEO; a mobile game about Kim Kardashian earned $51 million; mobile games for 2014 will earn $25 billion. About this and much more in our digest for the past week. 

Tokyo Drift: a brief history of the formation of DeNA and GREEJapan is one of the most thriving mobile gaming markets these days.

Top developers can earn more on it than anywhere else. Not everyone, however, knows how this market grew, about how it all started. And it all started with feature phones.

Kim Kardashian: Hollywood earned $51 millionThe Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game from Glu Mobile has brought its creators $51 million in revenue since its launch in June.

Nika Entertainment: female audience does not like the levels “for a while” in match-3Today, in the App Store and Google Play, you can find many projects in the match-3 genre.

Only some rise in the box office top, while others remain unnoticed. How to make such a “three-in-a-row” that will bring money, we talked with the authors of the game “The Mysteries of Atlantis”.

Apple requires all developers to switch to 64-bit code supportFrom February next year, any application or update to get permission to publish in the App Store will have to support 64-bit code and be built on the iOS 8 SDK.

Unity will get a new CEOUnity founder David Helgason is leaving the post of CEO.

His place will be taken by John Riccitiello, who headed Electronic Arts from 2007 to 2013. He was also one of the investors of Oculus. John has been on the Unity board of directors since last November. Helgason is not going to leave the company, he plans to engage in “strategy and communication with developers.”

Revenues from mobile games in 2014 will reach $25 billionGlobal revenues of mobile games for the current year will grow by 42% and amount to $25 billion, — Newzoo company reports in its latest report.

Analysis of Dragon WarlordsRecently, Ilya Eremeev, creative director of A-Steroids, wrote an extensive post on his Facebook page dedicated to the Android version of Dragon Warlords, a new game from Cutetown and Game Insight.

With the kind permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

Mobile advertising in the United States alone earned $5.3 billion in the first half of 2014Mobile advertising in the first half of 2014 in the United States accounted for 23% of revenue from all online advertising in the country, – says IAB in its latest report.