The head of the financial service of Holt of California appropriated $4.9 million to his company. He spent $1 million of them on the game Game of War (MZ).

The German company Crytek, famous for the CryEngine engine and the Crysis series of games, delays the salaries of its employees.

Supercell continues to develop the brand of its Clash series. Last week, the first two ten-minute episodes of the animated series Clash-A-Rama were released on YouTube. The writers and producers of Futurama and Simpson are responsible for the creation.

Obsidian dismisses some of the employees who worked on Armored Warfare. This is related to the solution Mail.Ru Group to move part of the development to Moscow.

We tell you about the studios whose games are or have been Greenlighted on Steam. The first material is about the Double Dice Games team and its Willy–Nilly Knight project. The project is a role–playing game with a turn-based combat system and a plot of 40 thousand words.

Google shared recordings of lectures on game development and launch from its own Playtime conferences. Speakers include Space Ape Games, Seriously and Kabam.

French media giant Vivendi continues to increase its stake in Ubisoft. The company already owns 25% of the developer of the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series.

After 3.6 million downloads on mobile, HeroCraft is porting a tactical strategy with elements of the Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf card battler to PC and changing its monetization.

Sony will release Project Field, an interactive whiteboard for board card games. The device is designed to “change the approach to card games.”

Apple has named the best games and apps of 2016 in the Russian App Store. The first place in the “Games” category was taken by Clash Royale.

For the three-dimensional cartoon “Moana”, Disney has released a mobile farm “Moana: Paradise Island“. The project was developed by Game Insight.

Minimalistic game Agar.io Miniclip has received 113 million downloads from the publisher.

Sales of Apple Watch smartwatches on the eve of the holidays have grown and reached record values. This is the best week in the history of the product,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told Reuters in an interview.

The prevalence of the seventh Android OS in the three months since its release reached 0.4%. The information was shared by Google.

In November of this year, an average of 792 new games were published in the App Store every day. Such data was shared by the Pocket Gamer resource.

Users are 30-40% more likely to click on native ads than on any other. This was announced by the startup YouAppi based on the results of data from user acquisition campaigns on its own OneRun platform.

In Facebook analytics for applications, statistics on the time of day and the division into time zones have appeared.

Mark Brown, indie developer and editor of Pocket Gamer resource, told how coding inspires the creation of non-banal puzzle games as part of the video cycle Game Maker’s Toolkit. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.

Tanya Evdokimenko, who headed the Playrix office in Kiev, announced her departure from the company. Evdokimenko launches his own consulting firm.