In five years, the mobile games market will earn a third of all the money the gaming industry receives from digital sales.

As part of our “Who’s Who” column, we talked with game designer Nikita Filatov about the Cloud Castle team and their first game project – the nonlinear adventure game Die With Glory.

The second game in the universe of minions will be published by Electronic Arts. It will be released next week.

Eric Seufert, vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, in his last post addressed the question of whether it makes sense to spend money on advertising on the mobile Internet as opposed to advertising in mobile applications.

For verbal mobile games, quizzes and puzzles in September, ARPPU, on average, increased by $1.

The experience of passing Greenlight in the official blog of the Message Quest game was shared by its author and developer Maria Kravtsova. With the kind permission of Maria, we have published the material on our pages.

There are enough tutorials and forums on the Web about the technical aspects of pixel animation. Therefore, Jonathan Kim and Paul Robertson, the authors of the animation for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, give some general tips on how to make sprites that will stand out from the general background and attract the attention of players.

The Apple company said that those games that were removed by the developer companies from the App Store will disappear from the user’s purchase history.

If the game is removed from the App Store, the user who bought it earlier will most likely not be able to download it again.

The Midora game has collected $73 thousand necessary for the release with the help of the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. The project, however, has not yet been released: the authors of the game have run out of money. As of October 2015, only the diesel engine is fully ready.

Not so long ago, the Israeli company SOOMLA has prepared a detailed guide to the marketing of mobile indie games. We read the text and realized that we have not only a guide, but also a kind of checklist for budget promotion. We offer you a revised version of the material in Russian.

The release date of the Murder game from indie developer Peter Moorhead has become known. Pixel quest in cyberpunk style will appear on iOS and Android on October 21.

The shareware three-in-a-row Marvel Puzzle Quest, which has long been present on PC and mobile platforms, will become a paid game on consoles.

Having put the production of multi-part adventure games on the conveyor, Telltale Games has removed most of its projects from the App Store.

Producer of the company Miniclip Andre Pais, who will be performing at White Nights Moscow 2015, answered our questions about the publishing house.

Spending on mobile advertising in the UK will overtake spending on TV advertising by the end of 2016. This forecast is given by the analytical firm eMarketer.

Microsoft Corporation acquired Havok, the developers of the engine of the same name. A message about this appeared on the official Microsoft blog.

Mind Candy Studio will relaunch the Moshi Monsters brand. This was announced in an interview with The Guardians by the general manager of the British studio Divinia Knowles (Divinia Knowles).

Heroes of other games have appeared in the Hipster Whale mobile arcade called Crossy Road.