Japanese publisher and mobile game developer Gumi is opening four new studios in Europe and the USA. The company’s branches will be located in Austin, Vancouver, Stockholm and Kiev. Their goal will be the development of the Western market.The company also plans to open an office in San Francisco; the latter’s goal will be business development and public relations.

Game manufacturers are sounding the alarm, because the established monetization schemes bring less and less profit, and intrusive advertising scares the buyer away rather than attracts. Tinyloot has found an unexpected solution to the problem. The service will pay users money for the time they spend in the game.

The clones won’t pass. Leading app stores have “blocked the oxygen” to numerous copies of the new game by the creator of Flappy Bird.

The Finnish team Almost Human is developing a mobile version of Legend of Grimrock, a nostalgic “bagel” that was very warmly welcomed by the press and PC players two years ago.

The founder and former CEO of Game Insight, Alice Chumachenko, according to Forbes, was included in the list of the richest women in the Russian Federation with a fortune of $ 90 million.

The release date of the spin-off of the popular Angry Birds game has appeared on the official Rovio website. The game dedicated to the bird Stella will be released on September 4.

It’s another Thursday outside the window, which means it’s time to see what interesting games appeared in the App Store this week.

Ian Bowden, the former art director of Rockstar, left the company to join the development of mobile and social games in the German studio GameDuell.

No, we will not offer you an absurd riddle in the spirit of “what do a crow and a desk look like”. We will explain exactly how little Finland managed to become a significant figure in the global mobile market in a few years – and surprise the world with three hits in a row at once: Angry Birds, Hay Day and Clash of Clans.

The ideal way to entertain a child for many parents today is a mobile gadget. That’s just, according to the latest study by Adjust, applications for children’s audience are not all right today. There are few of them.

China continues to excite the mobile games market with high-profile deals. Moreover, this time the amount of the agreement almost reached $1 mdr. A little less than this amount was laid out by Zhongji Holding for the authors of Family Farm and Barn Voyage.

Commercial director of the small British studio Strike Gamelabs Ella Romanos (Ella Romanos) spoke about how a modern design document should look like.

The state of affairs in the game industry allows almost anyone to open their own studio. This is exactly what many artists, designers and programmers do – but some will still prefer to work for Valve if they are given the opportunity to choose.