Stanislav Kostyuk, a game designer at Ubisoft, in his blog talked about how secret zones are made in Rayman Legends and how they are interesting.

Alexander Shtachenko, the leading product manager of iLogos, told us about why people play slots, how users are kept in them, and also how the behavior of players in casual projects differs from the behavior in slots.

For three months, Russian players, on average, spend 960 rubles on Internet games. This is 25% more than a year earlier.

As part of the Casual Connect autumn session, which will be held in Tel Aviv, a showcase of indie projects will traditionally take place within the framework of the Indie Prize international scholarship program. We talked about what kind of program it is with its director, Yulia Moshkareva.

Because of Clash Royale, Clash of Clans’ revenues fell, Pokémon Go increased Nintendo 3DS sales by 50%, and Starcraft II earned $314 million in four years – this is not only in the latest Superdata report.

The cult Russian series about space adventures will receive a new game, which will be released both on mobile platforms and on Steam.

Benson Russell, (Benson Russell) the author of many high-profile projects, including the upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare from Infinity Ward, told the resource 80.lv about what tasks the game designer faces, and gave advice on how to make the game interesting. Translated the text. We share.

The founder and art director of the Moscow studio OWL-studio Vera Velichko told App2Top.ru about the history of the development of the visual novel One Day in London, and also shared the first sales results.

The authors of Angry Birds reported on the company’s financial results for the first half of 2016. For six months, the revenues of the “bird” giant amounted to €76.4 million (~ $86 million).

The American office of WG Cells, a division of Wargaming for the development and publication of mobile games, closed: 64 studio employees lost their jobs.

One of the main slasher game series – Devil May Cry – today, August 23, marked 15 years since its debut on gaming shelves.

The Color Switch mobile game, originally made by two developers in a week without using code, has collected 100 million downloads in 8 months since its release.

Risky Lab, authors of the strategyWarbits, the “ideological heir” of Advance Wars, told how the game was created. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

One of the main cross-platform winter releases of this year – a retro project about nostalgia for the 80s and the difficult boxing fate of Punch Club – will appear on the Nintendo 3DS portable console.

About the development of the game about Big Brother, the current ambitions of 1C, the earnings of public companies for the second calendar quarter of 2016 and much more – all this is in our selection of the most interesting materials of last week.

The number of one-time players in No Man’s Sky on the Steam platform fell from 212 thousand to 40 thousand players in a week. Despite this, the game is still one of the most popular among players. The project is in the Top 20 in terms of the number of online players.

As part of the GamesBeat 2016 conference, veterans of the game dev gave advice on how to encourage and develop creativity among employees.

The latest game of the Finnish company Supercell – Clash Royale – has been losing revenue since May. In August, the project earned $62 million. This is two times less than the game received in March.

Games for smartphones and tablets earn from $9.3 billion to $9.5 billion a year in Japan.