Publisher and developer King has published the results of the 2nd quarter of 2015. For the company, it ended on June 30 with a 14% drop in revenue.

In one piece, Fred Tang, a designer from Beijing, collected all kinds of social interaction in MMO. We offer a short version of the article originally published on Gamasutra on our pages.

The largest web service for storing and supporting IT projects has received a new version of the GitHub Desktop desktop application for Windows and Macintosh.

A major update has appeared for the Fallout Shelter game on iOS. And, most importantly, the Android version is finally coming out.

The British visual effects studio IKinema offers to democratize animation scripting as much as possible. Their service uses natural language to animate three-dimensional scenes.

In 14 days, the second part of Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 30 million times,” Rovio announced today, August 13.

The analytical company DeltaDNA compared the key performance indicators (KPIs) of shareware projects of different genres to find out what the market averages look like.

In 2014, the Russian mobile gaming market grew by 68%. Its volume at the end of last year amounted to 8.8 billion rubles, – reports Mail.Ru Group.

Com2uS reported for the 2nd quarter of 2015, which for it ended on June 30, 2015. Sales of the Korean publisher and developer increased by 16% compared to the same period in 2014 and reached $97 million.

Soon, watching game videos may become more popular than the game process itself. But those who love letsplay can also be monetized. Matt Patrick, the creator of the popular YouTube channel The Game Theorists, told about this during a speech at Casual Connect in San Francisco.

Nintendo games, which will be monetized using the free-to-start model, will become popular both in Asian and Western markets,” says Shintaro Asako, CEO of DeNA’s western branch.

Repression is working: despite the scandals, Konami’s operating profit increased by 86% in the last quarter.

There is new information about the mobile game Rayman Adventures. The project from the French Ubisoft team will be distributed on a shareware model.

The Grand Prix and the prize for the best art at the Indie Game Cup 2015, held as part of White Nights 2015, was awarded to the game Lost Socks Naughty Brothers by Nerf Game. We talked to the team about the history of the studio and the game itself.

Facebook has opened access to new advertising formats, including native video clips, to customers of its own Audience Network advertising network. The creators of the social network told about this in a blog for developers.

Google may be preparing to launch an affiliate program for its Google Play store. This is reported by the resource 9to5Google with reference to information from an informed source.

The card collectible game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft brings Blizzard about $20 million monthly.

The other day, Eric Seufert, Vice President for Acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, published a presentation of his report with GDC Europe 2015. There are a lot of interesting things there (including an explanation of how to compete with the giants of the market), so we decided to give a short text that retells it in general terms.

DeltaDNA analyst Isaac Roseboom shared on the company’s blog how the monetization indicators of games on “old” smartphones differ from games on more modern devices. We publish a retelling of the text.