German publisher and developer RNTS Media acquired the service Fyber for $ 190 million. The companies will merge into an international mobile advertising corporation.

The final version of the Castaway Paradise title is being prepared for release. The project from the Stolen Couch studio will be launched on iOS on Thursday, October 9.

The Israeli company Appsee received $1 million from the venture fund Flint Capital during the investment round A. A total of $2 million was raised.

A project called Starband Troopers is being prepared for release. Indie studio Brownie Interactive promises users an unexpected combination of the genres of “roguelike”, RPG and musical game.

The other day, an update of the first mobile game under the brand of the children’s animated series “Barboskiny” appeared on the windows of Google Play (studio “Mill”, has been shown since 2011 in “Good Night, kids”) from the Moscow studio Bobaka. On this occasion, we decided to talk to the founders of the studio, to ask how it works in the market of children’s applications in general and children’s games under license in particular.

A new bill has been submitted to the Parliament of Singapore for consideration. He can impose severe restrictions on shareware games in the country.

Simultaneously with the Live Mobile Congress 2014, a small Ukrainian conference XGamesDev Autumn will open this Saturday.

The Appboy resource, which specializes in marketing automation, received $15 million from investors. The money will be spent on further promotion of the service.

Disney has removed Tiny Death Star and Star Wars Assault Team from the App Store and Google Play.

Despite the good results of the Broken Sword 5 Kickstarter campaign, the amount collected covered only 25% of the money spent on development.

The Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Corp., which owns 51% of Supercell and its subsidiary GungHo, has started investing heavily in cinema.

The Tower Dwellers game, previously released on iOS and representing a mix of tower defense and RTS genres, is now available on Android.

Goodgame studios, the author of Empire: Four Kingdoms, has accepted a thousandth employee into its staff. Since its foundation in 2009, the studio team has grown continuously. Over the past year alone, Goodgame studios has hired 400 people. Now the studio is rightfully considered the largest game developer in Germany.

Rovio is going to mass layoffs; Ubisoft opens its own office in Russia; Twitter announces a platform for application developers. This is not only in our selection of the main news of last week.

A link with information about a free engine for game developers for Oculus Rift appeared a few days ago on the official Unreal Engine 4 website. 

Ubisoft has announced the opening of an office in Moscow. The company’s representative office in the capital will support the gaming community, localization of games and promotion of its products.

Twitter will introduce its own platform for application development. It will be called Twitter Fabric.

Hugo Games received $4 million from private investors. The creators of the Troll Hugo, known in our country as the Troll Kuzya, plan to spend money on promoting new projects.

Rovio’s staff will be reduced by 16%, according to Executive director Mikael Hed in a statement that appeared on Rovio’s official website today. We give a full translation of his letter.