A good day – three releases (including the mobile Punch Club) and two messages about raising large sums. In particular, App Annie raised $63 million (let’s be happy for our favorite service, yes).

The game company Plarium, the creator of Nords: Heroes of the North, is launching a studio in London. The new branch will be headed by the ex-head of the gaming department at Goodgame Studios, Olliver Heins.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is recognized as the most influential person in the industry. The title was awarded to the Cat by the marketing company ScribbleLive during the CES 2016 exhibition.

The Russian company Gaijin Entertainment announced the release of The Abandoned, the first project created as part of inCubator, a program to support games from independent teams.

A week ago, the world launch of the new three-in-a-row from King – Candy Crush Jelly Saga took place. The main surprise of the project is one of the mechanics that turns the game into a turn-based tactic.

The St. Petersburg studio Orc Work is currently working on its second game – the role-playing battler Evilibrium II. A closed alpha testing of the project has recently started. In this regard, we talked with the producer of the team about preparing the game for release.

A team of developers from Ankara has announced an application for creating mobile games. The project called Gamelooper will launch on January 22.

Children from Southeast Asia spend more time playing mobile games than children from the United States. This is the conclusion reached by the startup from the USA SuperAwesome according to the results of the study.

An interview with Nexon M, an adaptation of indie games for arcade games and the announcement of Google I/O 2016 in our daily selection.

The authors of Nitro Nation, the Estonian Creative Mobile team, announced the dates of the next GameDev Days 2016, a conference for game developers and publishers, and told App2Top.ru about the details of the event.

The post of co-president of Activision Blizzard Studios was taken by a producer with 20 years of experience Stacey Sher (Stacey Sher). Cher will work on film and TV adaptations of the company’s main franchises.

Experts of the Chartboost advertising network told what projects the press likes.

Daughter Mail.Ru The Group has officially announced Juggernaut Wars, a new mobile game inspired by one of the world’s major blockbusters of 2014 – Heroes Charge.

The revenue of the Best Fiends game for December 2015 amounted to $ 3 million. In total, the project of the Finnish team Seriously has earned $25 million since its launch.

Today we have two videos in the collection of “missed”. Fruit Ninja designer’s report on analytics (lots of jokes, you won’t fall asleep) and a trailer for Vector and Lemmings mix from Foursaken Media.

The author of the Monkey Island series of games, the Grim Fandango quest and the Psychonauts platformer, Tim Schafer, shared tips on managing the game development team.

The organizers of White Nights have launched the first round of voting for the Game Industry Awards.

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has signed a cooperation agreement with OBOKAIDEM. A Vietnamese developer together with a Japanese studio will release a title under the working title N Project.

About what should (or should not) read if you decide to become a game designer, App2Top.ru told by Artur Ostapenko, Svyatoslav Torik, Andrey “Krank” Kuzmin, Leonid Sirotin, Ilya Yeremeev and Dmitry Nozhnin.