Rovio’s revenues for the 2nd quarter of this year increased by 94% to €86.2 million due to good sales of the Angry Birds franchise and the success of the full-length cartoon Angry Birds Movie.

The mobile PvP shooter Critical Ops by the Finnish developer Critical Ops has been downloaded more than 25 million times, with the game gaining the last 10 million downloads in less than six months.

In November, separate application promotion tools in Google will be closed. It will no longer be possible to create advertising campaigns for Google Search or YouTube. They will be replaced by one universal solution – UAC.

Jan Miczaika, former chief operating officer of the German mobile casual developer studio Wooga, will support startups in the venture company Holtzbrinck Ventures.

Unity Technologies has announced the termination of support for the UnityScript programming language in its Unity engine. It will be completely replaced by the C# language.

Sergey Babaev, Managing Partner, announced his new position DTF.ru and former vice president of strategy at Nekki. He took the place of vice-president of the Cyprus team Cubic Games.

The Finnish company Rovio has planned an IPO in early September this year, which will allow it to raise $ 400 million. The capitalization of Rovio, according to preliminary estimates, will be $ 2 billion, Bloomberg business magazine reports, citing sources inside the studio.

Why indie developers should stop lowering the price tags for their games and take advantage of the experience of the creator of The Witness, – Sergey Galenkin, the author of Steam Spy and the main publisher of Epic Games in Eastern Europe, told on the pages of his English–language blog. App2Top.ru publishes a translation of the material with the kind permission of the author.

The creators of League of Legends lost the court to ex-footballer Edgar Davids (Edgar Davids) and now have to pay him compensation for using the image of an athlete without permission.

The seventeenth update to the Unreal Engine game engine was released the other day. The main innovations and fixes of the new version relate to the capabilities of the engine with which developers create cut scenes.

Blizzard President Michael Morhaime announced his intention to attract new personnel by recruiting women and representatives of social minorities as part of the program “increasing diversity and engagement”.

What is loyalty, how to calculate it, why it may be needed? These and other questions are answered by devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance Indicators of games”.

The Japanese publisher of online games Nexon earned $431.7 million in the second quarter of 2017, increasing revenue by 23% compared to last year thanks to mobile titles and the success of the Dungeon Fighter Online MMO bitmap in China.

In the US, parents filed a second lawsuit against mobile developers in a week. Residents of California have accused Disney and Unity of illegally collecting personal data of children in mobile games.

The casual runner Rodeo Stampede by Featherweight Games studio has gained more than 80 million downloads in 13 months since its release.

On August 1, the release of the domestic Redeemer browser from Sobaka Studio took place. How long the game was developed and how the team chose the publisher, – App2Top.ru I asked the head of the studio Dmitry Kachkov.

From April to June 2017 Mail.Ru The Group earned 3.8 billion rubles on MMO games. This is 53.6% more than last year for the same period.

The list of billionaire games has been replenished. The elite club includes Summoners War, a game from the Korean developer Com2uS.

The gaming division of the Chinese Internet company NetEase earned $1.4 billion in the second quarter of this year. The entire revenue of the organization during this time amounted to $ 2 billion.