Six years after the release of the original Angry Birds, the Finnish company Rovio presented the first sequel to the game.

In 2015, the size of the gaming market in Russia will pass the mark of $ 1.3 billion. This is reported by the Newzoo research agency.

In 2014, the online multiplayer games market in Russia reached the level of 28 billion rubles. This is 24% more than in 2013, the company claims Mail.Ru Group in the official press release.

Razer has pushed the purchase of Android console manufacturer Ouya. Information about this appeared in the official press release of Razer.

A gaming company from Italy, Digital Bros, will have a branch in the city of Shenzhen.

The developer of Brave Frontier, the Japanese studio gumi, is still trying to sit on two chairs: to create a game that is equally successful in both the Asian and Western markets.

GREE International, a subsidiary of the Japanese GREE, will have branches in Germany and Australia. The company will thus “expand its presence in the West.”

The team of the AppInTop group of companies has published a book “Pump money!” dedicated to the marketing of mobile games and applications. We bring to your attention one of the chapters of the book – “Working with the media” (on the day of the PR specialist, it seemed very relevant to us).

On the eve of the release of Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft has released a beta version of its own graphical shell for smartphones based on the Google operating system.

The success of the Fallout Shelter game will not force Bethesda to “stamp” mobile projects one by one. Pete Hines, Vice president of Marketing and PR, said this in an interview with IGN.

We continue to upload videos from White Nights 2015. Next up is a master class by Evgeny Kozlov from Twitter. As part of the master class, Evgeny reviewed practical examples used by leading Russian digital agencies in working with Twitter.

We continue to upload videos from White Nights 2015. Next up is a master class by Dmitry Martynov from Google. At the conference, he talked about ways to increase profits in Google Play using Google Adwords.

We continue to upload videos from White Nights 2015. Next up is a master class from Alexey Savchenko, the technical evangelist of Epic Games. At the conference, he spoke about the methods of building a production process on Unreal Engine 4.

Mobile games in Russia in 2014 showed the highest growth rates among other segments of the gaming industry. Vedomosti writes about this with reference to a study by J’son & Partners Consulting.

Usually, if we are talking about Korean games, then either images of large-scale MMO or no less large-scale battlers immediately flash through my head. But our hero today is far from both the first and the second.

We continue to upload videos from White Nights 2015. Ruslan Grigoriev’s workshop from Unity Technologies is next in line. At the conference, he spoke about the interaction of Unity Android and Java.

Yosuke Matsuda, senior managing director of Square Enix, believes that there is no need to expect much from the new game. We can talk about the success of the series closer to the third project. He said this in an interview with the Kotaku resource.

Last week it became known that Instagram plans to open its advertising platform to all advertisers. We asked market participants about what this initiative could lead to.

The American division of the Chinese gaming company NetEase is launching the NetEase Success Fund, which will give independent developers up to $ 500,000 to launch mobile games.