A trial launch of the new Rovio game took place. The title is called Battle Bay and has nothing to do with the Angry Birds franchise.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Dodreams CEO Erik Pontiskoski. He talks about why and how they switched to a model of releasing minimalistic games.

The number of mobile users continues to grow, which naturally leads to an increase in the number of mobile players. By 2020, 213 million mobile gamers will appear in the United States. This opinion was voiced by the analytical company eMarketer based on the results of its own research.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is the report of Housemarque CEO Ilari Kuittinen. In his report, he shared the history of the industry for twenty years, and also spoke about the rules that his company adheres to.

Clones of the latest Supercell blockbuster have started to be released in China. At the moment, we know about at least three similar projects from developers from China.

The German company Wooga launches the studio Black Anvil Games. The division’s specialization will be midcore mobile games.

A parody eight-bit top-down shooter Retro City Rampage DX was released on MS-DOS and iOS.

The mobile market is oversaturated with gaming applications. And every day there are only more of them. The question is — how much more?

Chef Gordon Ramsay’s game will feature “branded” swearing and insults, a new Pokemon game is coming out, Nexon is buying the DomiNations developer, Big Huge Games studio.

The new Age of Empires game will see the light. At least, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates promised to “consider this possibility.”

Twitter has released a plugin for integrating Twitter Fabric services into Unity games. A message about this appeared on the platform’s blog.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is the report of Creative Mobile CEO Vladimir Funtikov. Among the topics discussed: why the development of free-to-play games sucks, how to make a soft launch, and so on.

Marmalade Technologies, the creator of the engine of the same name, has added tvOS support to the Marmalade Platform.

Panoptes is a single card collectible game about cyberpunk and demons from St. Petersburg Suricate Games. Dmitry Gavrilov, the producer of the game, told us about the studio and why to make KKI a premium project.

A little less than a week ago, the Australian team The Voxel Agents released a free-to-play game about steam locomotives. We tell you about it.

KKI Faeria will be released on smartphones, the creator of Stockholm Rovio is quitting, and a trailer for a retro platformer in the cyberpunk style of Huntdown has appeared on the web.

The key game metric in setting up monetization is engagement. DAU, MAU and conversion rates are secondary. Atul Bagga, the former chief financial officer of Zynga in Asia, came to this opinion.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. The next step is the report of the brand manager My.com Anton Gritsevsky on building the concept of the Juggernaut Wars brand.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is the report of the 101XP Business Development Director Ilya Salamatov. In it, Ilya also answered the question of whether there is life in the browser games market today.