The Pokemon video has become one of the most popular at the 2016 Super Bowl, Japanese companies are consolidating, and the Lumines music puzzle is finally coming out on mobile. In two versions at once.

The shelf of game engines has arrived. Amazon has introduced its own engine for creating Lumberyard games, developed on the basis of CryEngine.

Blizzard turned 25 years old. In honor of the date, fans received a video message from the founders of the company as a gift.

On February 2, Blizzard announced the introduction of two game formats to Hearthstone. The players met the news ambiguously. We tried to figure out what made the American company take unpopular measures.

EA ended the calendar year with a profit of $ 596 million, the worldwide release of Assassin’s Creed Identity will still take place, and the creators of Ravensword announced another game from the same series.

The display of Mobile Strike ads for the “Super Bowl 2016” cost Machine Zone $ 5 million. Actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger took part in the video.

What is the difference between games and toys, what is an honest free-to-play, whether a game designer should understand monetization – you can find out about this and much more in our transcript of the first issue of the podcast “Underground Game Design“.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth game has not been censored by Apple. The company refused to publish the project because of “a demonstration of cruelty or a bad attitude towards children.”

Supercell has no plans to close its latest game. On the contrary, in just a month its worldwide launch on iOS and Android will take place.

How to become a successful indie, why Heroes Charge is copied by everyone who is not lazy, what will change VAT for IT companies? This and much more is in our weekly digest.

The “new Flappy Birds” about colored balls was released, and the creators of Midnight Star announced an RPG that can be played with one finger. Plus a bonus – a dispute about who has the cooler game, King or Supercell.

Gameloft and GungHo Online Entertainment will start working together. On Tuesday, the two companies officially announced the creation of a strategic alliance.

Kaliningrad Herocraft releases a game on Apple TV this month “The Lords of the spheres.” In connection with the upcoming release, we talked with the Head of Publishing company Sergey Kopov.

The model of promoting games with the help of stars in the case of Glu Mobile has failed. This became known after the publication of the company’s financial statements.

Glu’s revenue has fallen (although profits have grown), Merged! scored 1 million downloads in a week, and one of the creators of Adventure Times released a mobile game.

The mobile games market in China will reach $11.1 billion by 2019. This forecast was given by analysts of Niko Partners.

Gameloft game designer Toni Sala told Gamasutra about the beauty of the action midcore role-playing game Heroes Charge by Chinese-American developer uCool, which is being cloned no less actively than Clash of Clans today.

Glu company together with singer Taylor Swift is preparing to launch a mobile game.