Games in the Angry Birds Stella franchise have surpassed the 30 million downloads bar. Of these, 5 million are accounted for by Angry Birds: Stella Pop!. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to the statement of Rovio representatives.

Salaries of British programmers are growing faster than other salaries in the local gaming industry – these are the conclusions reached by the British trade association TIGA based on the results of its research.

Kushal Dave, senior director of the technical department at Forsquare, believes that it’s time for Apple to change its policy regarding application verification. In its current form, it harms users.

Virtual reality glasses from MergeVR startup are preparing to compete with Oculus and Samsung headsets. The device will cost about $129 and will be on sale this fall.

This summer in June, the seventh WN conference will be held in St. Petersburg: White Nights 2015.

The Yahtzee With Buddies game from Scopely studio launched on iOS and Android 5 days ago. Since that moment, it has been downloaded 1 million times.

Microsoft will collaborate with Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Chukong Technologies. The integration of the Visual Studio development environment with the engines of these companies will be improved. The information appeared on the official Microsoft blog.

A new collection of apps called Games You Can Feel has appeared on Google Play. It presents games in which the player’s actions will be accompanied by vibrations of varying intensity.

Why DeNa is firing Canadian employees, how much money should be put into the game budget for analytics, why is Pinkapp going to finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu? The answers to these and other questions are in our traditional digest of the beginning of the week.

The light did not converge on Unity, Unreal Engine or CryEngine, our colleagues from the Techcrunch resource are convinced. They have prepared a list of a dozen alternatives to popular engines. We share.

Eric Seufert, the new vice president of the acquisition and user engagement department at Rovio, told us what the minimum budget should be for analytics, and why mobile stores are “only for winners”.

Last week, Game Insight announced the open development of the PC project Starborn Wanderers Universe, a client MMO developed on the basis of the mobile Starborn Wanderers. We asked GI about the project.

The International Games Week starts next week in Berlin. 12 major events will be held within its framework. Apps World Germany 2015 is one of them.

A gaming startup from India, 99Games, received money for development from the local venture fund Kalaari Capital.

The mobile games market in India is expecting an “explosive” development. So says Manish Agarwal, CEO of Reliance Games studio.

Last week it became known that Pinkapp will finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu. We talked to the CEO of the studio about why Pinkapp went to this.

The QuizUp mobile quiz from the Icelandic developer Plain Vanilla has been translated into Chinese. She conquers the local market under the name WeQuiz.

On April 18, 2015 at 6.00 am, the GameDevParty gamejam starts #2. It will last a week. The sponsors will be DevGAMM, WN conf and Scirra. GameDevParty accepts for participation in the contest and works made for Ludumdare 32.

The Antimonopoly Committee of the European Union has charged Google with violating antitrust laws. This was stated by the head of the committee, Margaret Vestager, during a press conference dedicated to the event.