As part of the D23 Expo, currently taking place in Anaheim (California, USA), Disney Interactive has announced a mobile game in which users will be able to rebuild their own Disneyland – Disney Magic Kingdoms.

While small teams are trying to find traffic, big companies are trying to figure out how to monetize it if they can’t sell IAP in the right amount. Zynga is just one of such giants.

The authors of the Heliborne helicopter simulator – the Lithuanian JetCat team – raised €100 thousand to finalize the project.

In the year since its release, the Clash of Kings mobile game from ELEX Wireless has been downloaded 65 million times. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to a press release from the company.

All this week I have been sharing with my colleagues an observation: the summer turned out to be hot for events. Every day something happens, after which you have to look for the jaw under the neighbor’s table: then Milner will pour money into Vainglory, then Hearthstone earnings will be more than DOTA 2. In general, about the most important thing for the week – see under the cut.

Game Analytics, an analytical platform and game publisher, has published a list of 21 training resources for game developers on its blog. Now this list can be found on our pages.

The volume of the Japanese gaming market will reach $12.3 billion by the end of this year, according to analysts from Newzoo. This means an increase of 2.1% compared to 2014, when the local market earned $ 12.05 billion.

Pixel Toys Studio and Games Workshop will release a game based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. A game called Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade will appear on mobile devices this fall.

According to the results of the second quarter of 2015, the tablet market earned 49% less than in the same period last year.

Publisher and developer King has published the results of the 2nd quarter of 2015. For the company, it ended on June 30 with a 14% drop in revenue.

In one piece, Fred Tang, a designer from Beijing, collected all kinds of social interaction in MMO. We offer a short version of the article originally published on Gamasutra on our pages.

The largest web service for storing and supporting IT projects has received a new version of the GitHub Desktop desktop application for Windows and Macintosh.

A major update has appeared for the Fallout Shelter game on iOS. And, most importantly, the Android version is finally coming out.

The British visual effects studio IKinema offers to democratize animation scripting as much as possible. Their service uses natural language to animate three-dimensional scenes.

In 14 days, the second part of Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 30 million times,” Rovio announced today, August 13.

The analytical company DeltaDNA compared the key performance indicators (KPIs) of shareware projects of different genres to find out what the market averages look like.

In 2014, the Russian mobile gaming market grew by 68%. Its volume at the end of last year amounted to 8.8 billion rubles, – reports Mail.Ru Group.

Com2uS reported for the 2nd quarter of 2015, which for it ended on June 30, 2015. Sales of the Korean publisher and developer increased by 16% compared to the same period in 2014 and reached $97 million.

Soon, watching game videos may become more popular than the game process itself. But those who love letsplay can also be monetized. Matt Patrick, the creator of the popular YouTube channel The Game Theorists, told about this during a speech at Casual Connect in San Francisco.