The updated Apple TV set-top box will be available from next week. This is reported by The Verge with reference to the speech of Apple CEO Tim Cook during the WSJD conference.

Eric Seufert, vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, said that CPM (Cost Per Mile / Cost Per Thousand – cost per thousand impressions) has decreased in Asia. And he shared his thoughts on what this might mean.

The continuation of one of the main minimalistic hits of last spring – the musical game Piano Tiles – in September became the leader of the American Google Play in downloads among free applications.

The author of Motor World: Car Factory, the French studio Oh BiBi socialtainment, is preparing to release a new game – Monster and Commander. At the moment, the project is in softlonch in Australia.

The Chinese clone of Game of War from ELEX Wireless – Clash of Kings – continues to gain momentum. The project entered the box office Top 10 apps in 85 countries only on Google Play.

As part of our “Who’s Who” column, we talked with the executive director of Crystal Clear Soft studio Bogdan Nesvit about the history of the studio itself and how its work is structured.

Today, on October 19, App Annie published the Russian version of the “Market Report for the 3rd quarter of 2015”. The main thing it testifies to is the current stability of the mobile application market.

By the end of the year, Russia will take 12th place in the world in terms of revenue from games, – follows from the publication of the company Newzoo, published recently.

Chinese mobile companies are beginning to play a dominant role in the Russian market of mobile applications and games.

Details of the development of a new mobile game about Smesharikov, analysis of one of the latest Rovio games, details of the marketing campaign Seriously and not only – in our traditional digest of central materials for the last working week.

The British company Marmalade, the author of the cross-platform SDK of the same name, has released two new sets of tools for creating 2D and 3D games. They are called Marmalade 2D Kit and 3D Kit.

It often happens that a team with a potentially strong project for mobile platforms has good metrics and prospects, but there is no money for traffic. There are several ways to get them – Aprenita told us more about one of them.

The other day, Wargaming announced the launch of Wargaming Academy, a free educational project designed to introduce students to the peculiarities of the gaming industry.

This Wednesday, as part of the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference, an award ceremony was held for the best projects of the Indie Game Cup competition.

Mobile device users spend 2-10 times more time on games than on other applications. This is told by the gamesindustry resource.biz with reference to a study by the analytical firm adjust.

The authors of the Dropbox file storage service presented a service that can help teams work together and discuss projects.

Recently, the studio Seriously shared the preliminary results of an advertising campaign with the participation of letsplayers. The event raised downloads to 250 thousand per day. CEO and co-founder of the studio Andrew Stalbow (Andrew Stalbow) spoke about the details of the campaign to the Medium resource. We offer you a translation.

The Unity Analytics service has received an update. There is a click map (heatmaps) and a beta version of Unity In App Purchase. A message about this appeared on the company’s blog.

Ubisoft announced the acquisition of the Canadian team Longtail Studios.