The game Kendall & Kylie immediately after the release got into the American top App Store for grossing. The simulator of star life with the sisters of Kim Kardashian (Kim Kardashian) brought Glu Mobile $ 680 thousand in five days.

Today’s issue: Sid Meyer talked about how much Civilization II cost; Gamasutra shared a guide to creating a game attractive to speedrunners, and the Chinese invested $2.4 million in former The Sims developers.

In games of which genres VIP-statuses are most often found, what types they are and whether there is a reason to implement them, — App2Top.ru representatives of the Playliner service told.

Activision Blizzard finally became the owner of King Studio. This is reported on the official page of the company.

Kabam company will give priority in the development of mobile MMO. Expenses for other projects will be optimized, some employees will be fired.

The open source multiplatform engine GODOT has got a stable version number 2.0.

Zynga is putting its headquarters in San Francisco up for sale. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus announced his intention to sell the building during the presentation of financial results for 2015.

At the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference held in Finland, the authors of Angry Birds announced that they are working on a midcore project. The first details of the project became known the other day.

Sales of the Punch Club game by indie studio Lazy Bear Games have reached $2 million in two months since its launch.

About personal relationships at work, the situation with IAP in the mobile games market, the release of the Russian console and much more – in our selection of the main materials of the week.

What is the secret of the success of Clash Royale, the new Supercell game, — I tried to find out in my article Adam Telfer from Wooga. Dmitry Krasavin translated the material and shared it with us.

The number of game studios in Scotland has grown by 600% in five years, details of a toy for Iron Maiden fans have appeared, and Facebook has been named the best advertiser in mobile.

Most of the marketing budget of top-grossing mobile games is spent on advertising on social networks and on video. The AdColony advertising network told about this in its research report for the second half of 2015. Briefly about his main theses, – in our material.

A former Crytek employee, Hasit Zala, spoke about the financial problems that the studio faced in 2014.

The authors of the box office hit The Walking Dead: Road to Survival from the California company Scopely made a “soft launch” of Breaking Bad: Empire Business.

White Nights Helsinki 2016 ended a week ago. The conference summed up the results of the White Nights Game Industry Awards 2015 and the Indie Game Cup Helsinki 2016. Let’s talk about them.

Simon Newstead, CEO and game designer of the Hong Kong company Frenzoo, told how the team is testing game art and icons. We have translated the text and are sharing it.

We are starting to upload videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. The first report is read by Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft.

Media mogul Vincent Bollore’s Vivendi Corporation is going to acquire mobile developer and publisher Gameloft at a price of €6 per share.