Intel has announced the launch of a beta version of the Multi-OS Engine tool. With its help, developers will be able to create native mobile applications for iOS and Android in Java on Windows and/or OS X.

Users have downloaded Talking Tom series games 3 billion times. The information was shared by the author of the projects – the British studio Outfit7.

Last September, HeroCraft announced the mobile game “Smeshariki. The Legend of the Golden Dragon” based on the eponymous full-length cartoon. In connection with the announcement, we talked about the new project with both the developers and the owners of the rights to Smeshariki.

Niccolo De Masi, CEO of Glu Mobile, told during GamesBeat 2015 what principles the company follows when choosing the next celebrity for a mobile game.

The independent Stoic Games team, which owns the authorship of The Banner Saga game, is ready to share its own game engine with indie developers. This was told by the technical director of the studio John Watson (John Watson) in an interview with the resource Develop Online.

Richard Morgan, the screenwriter of Crysis 2 and Syndicate, will release an interactive book for mobile devices called Land Fit For Heroes. The game has a multiplayer mode.

The cost of purchases in the App Store in Australia, Sweden and Indonesia will increase. This is reported by the 9to5Mac resource with reference to notifications that Apple sent to developers.

Denis Konovalov, founder of Joyful Software studio, which develops mobile games in the three-in-a-row genre, shared with us his thoughts about Nibblers, one of the latest Rovio games.

Apple is negotiating with Russian online cinemas and video services. The subject of discussion is the creation of applications for Apple TV. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to its own sources.

Rapper Kanye West (Kanye West) condemned the producers of shareware projects in his own Twitter account. The husband of the shareware game star Kim Kardashian: Hollywood believes that there should be no IAP in children’s mobile games.

Zynga has announced the appearance of advertising in its own projects in the form of mini-games. A message about this appeared on the official website of the company.

A shareware quiz from Ellen DeGeneres, a comedic actress and TV show host, appeared in the stores. A game called Psych! Outwit Your Friends is DeGeneres’ second title. The first was the paid Heads Up.

On the last day before the official start of White Nights Moscow 2015, we publish a code giving a 90% discount on a ticket for indie developers.

A checklist about the promotion, a story about the passage of Greenlight, a case about the fight against Chinese gaming pirates and not only – in our traditional weekly selection of the best materials of the past working week.

The non-standard advertising campaign of Best Fiends with the participation of 13 letsplayers allowed the game to achieve very good results both in money and in downloads.

The game of the Boston studio Oniix was copied by Chinese clone makers. The team shared their experience of dealing with them. We offer you a translation.

About the average age of the Russian mobile gamer, the share of role-playing game fans among women and local traffic prices on myTarget and Facebook, – App2Top.ru told the marketing company DataLead.

Yesterday, October 8, Unity announced in its official blog that it had begun the process of suspending the development and support of the Unity Web Player plugin.

The story of apps purchased/downloaded by users, but no longer supported by developers, disappearing from the purchase history continues.