Los Angeles-based studio Firefly Games raised $8 million during investment round A. With the help of the money received, it will help Chinese mobile games appear on the American market.

Game designer Ethan Levy told the resource Pocketgamer.biz about what mistakes, in his opinion, were made in the recently released Midnight Star game at the monetization stage. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

The publishing division of Rovio has announced a game in the match-3 genre, close to the rules Farm Heroes Saga, but not devoid of innovative approaches in gameplay.

In the selection for Tuesday, we have two three-dimensional projects – one about the Chinese epic, the second about dogs.

Wargaming.net announced a cross-platform tactical card game based on its own World of Tanks project.

Ilya Eremeev, Creative Director of A-Steroids, spoke about working with the community at Winter Nights 2015. We are publishing a printed version of his report.

Nintendo’s first mobile project will be a mobile app, not a game.

The conference on the development and promotion of mobile games, held on February 9-10 in St. Petersburg, was attended by a record number of participants for the event.

Today we have three good projects in our selection: Daytona Rush, Bob’s Space Adventure and Eyez.

The British company Playtech has acquired for $ 16.4 million the Scottish studio YoYo Games, which develops and supports the multi-platform game engine GameMaker.

The Chinese New Year is on the nose, and on this occasion – a few words from analysts from Niko Partners about what awaits the mobile gaming market of China in 2015.

The UK’s largest tabloid, The Sun, has announced plans to create a mobile gaming platform where users can bet for real money.

According to the Turkish government, the level of violence in the Minecraft game can be harmful to the child’s psyche,” the Polygon resource reports, citing a BBC report.

Singapore-based developer Boomzap has announced a mobile card RPG about monsters under the working title Monster Roller.

The financial growth of GungHo has significantly decreased, as it became clear from the published financial statements for 2014. Does this mean that difficult times are coming for the Japanese industry giant?

Despite the large losses, the year ended on a positive note for the American company.

Text broadcasts from Winter Nights 2015; secrets of portfolio investments from App Annie; the latest innovations in the App Store – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

Friday, evening, fresh releases for the weekend. However, today we have a place for classics in our selection.

The updated Empires & Allies game from Zynga has launched in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.