OREANDA-NEWS. January 31, 2013. Released by i-Free Innovations, a leading Russian mobile game and app publisher, on 24 January 2013, Mushroom Wars RTS rocketed to No. 4 of the best-selling iPad apps in the US and No. 5 in Germany in less than a week and #1 Strategy in the US and other countries.

The mobile edition of the game owes much of its quick success to the vastly popular original Mushroom Wars, released in 2009 for the PlayStation©Network platform by Creat Studios, a hard-hitting Russian developer of console games. The PSN version of Mushroom Wars became one of the “all-time top 25 games” for the platform, according to IGN. The iPad edition of Mushroom Wars, adapted for touch’n’swipe control, has been featured in the App Store in in 96 countries, including the US, UK, Germany and France.

Mushroom Wars’ original gameplay critically acclaimed by the leading websites writing on mobile apps: “It's hard not to get sucked into Mushroom Wars once you start playing,” wrote Gamezebo.com;  "If you haven’t gotten the chance to play this fantastic RTS game on the PlayStation 3, you need to stop reading this, right now, and grab it from the App Store," – 148apps.com

“i-Free Group began developing apps for iOS and Android more than two and a half years ago,” said i-Free Innovations Managing Director Kirill Petrov, commenting on Mushroom Wars’ successful release. “We have released over 30 apps and games, and we’re now experts in marketing for mobile platforms. Our competencies, coupled with an outstanding Creat Studios product, helped to quickly put the game in the limelight and propelled it to the top of the App Store charts.”