Russian IT giant Mail.Ru Group announced the launch of the information and research project “The gaming industry in Russia and the world“.

VGTRK has launched the Interactive Cartoon brand, under which it will produce children’s games based on its cartoon franchises. We talked with Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction, about the brand and the industry.

Rovio announced the exact release date of The Angry Birds Movie.

Microsoft will release a version of Minecraft for teaching schoolchildren. A game called Minecraft: Education Edition will be released this summer.

The authors of Angry Birds Epic open a studio in Finland, the Shanghai studio Spicy Horse launches a card buttler, and Unity convinces everyone to go to Global Game Jam 2016.

Kaliningrad studio HeroCraft has released the title “Lords of Discord” on iOS. The game appeared in the world stores after 15 months of softlonch.

Eric Seufert, Vice President of Acquisition and User Engagement at Rovio, told during the Pocket Gamer Connects London 2016 conference which trends will be the main ones in 2016.

The organizers of White Nights announced the results of the first round of voting for the Game Industry Awards and launched the second.

About how much it costs to work with the community and the press in South Korea, as well as about the popularity of discount coupons on IAP in his new article for App2Top.ru Yulia Nabieva told me.

A service is being launched to attract Pollen360 users. The creator of the service is the Pollen VC venture financing fund.

The Russian retro project Punch Club of the St. Petersburg studio Lazy Bear Games earned $ 1 million in less than two weeks, selling more than 100 thousand electronic copies.

During this week, the price tags in the Russian App Store will grow.

The authors of Warhammer 40,000: Carnage from the Roadhouse Interactive studio announced that they are developing Iron Maiden: Legacy Of The Beast, a mobile shareware role-playing game based on the mythology of the Iron Maiden group.

The authors of Cut the Rope have been keeping Survivor Squad, an action movie about the destruction of hordes of zombies, in the soft lunch for the second year.

According to unconfirmed reports, Bill Gates’ company is buying one of the world’s largest advertising platforms – InMobi.

Leading UX designer of ComboApp company Vadim Shcherbakov told App2Top.ru about typical mistakes made when creating a user interface.

Product promotion and work with the community sometimes take on bizarre forms in the mobile games market. Pocket Gems studio has published a book based on its blockbuster War Dragons.

Gameloft told about its fighting game, what game designers need to read, what games the press likes – this and much more in our traditional digest.

As part of White Nights Helsinki 2016, the third Indie Game Cup championship for independent teams will be held. There is still time to submit your application for participation.