The former CEO of Fishlabs studio, known for the Galaxy on Fire series of mobile space sims, is raising money for the Everspace PC game.

During the year, sales of games under the Sid Meier’s Civilization franchise amounted to about 10 million, it became known from the Take-Two conference call following the results of the first fiscal quarter of 2016, which ended for the company on June 30, 2015.

In a month and a half since the release, users have bought 100 thousand copies of Her Story from Sam Barlow, the screenwriter of Silent Hill. The author of the detective game told about this on his Twitter.

Tuomo Korpinen became the new executive vice president of the media department of Rovio Entertainment. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to information from the company.

From time to time – looking at night – we will post links to interesting videos not from wnconf. We’ll start with a curious presentation read by a Supercell server programmer at GDC 2015.

Isometric horror Stasis from the indie team The Brotherhood is about to appear on Steam. If the players accept the project well, then there is a possibility of its release on the iPad.

The French mobile game developer Gameloft announced a full-fledged continuation of Order last Friday with the opening of the official website & Chaos Online – Order & Chaos 2: Redemption.

The St. Petersburg team IzHard after the victory of their OVIVO project at the Microsoft championship received an offer to publish the game from the authors of Shadow Fight.

Chartboost marketing company in its own blog shared the differences between players using iOS devices from players who prefer Android. We offer a thesis retelling of the article.

We continue to publish materials in the “Who’s Who” section, in which we introduce readers to game developers. Another material is an interview with the independent Portuguese studio Fun Punch Games, which is developing a pixel PvP arcade game Strikers Edge.

The creator of the Vainglory mobile MOBA, Super Evil Megacorop, received an investment of $26 million. One of the investors was the Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, co-owner Mail.ru Group and DST Global. The head of the company, Kristian Segerstrale, told about this in the studio’s blog.

We don’t know about you, but summer has finally arrived in St. Petersburg: the sun, high temperature, everything is fine. And on this positive note, we offer you a selection of the most interesting things from last week. We urge you to pay special attention to the most interesting material on how to promote the game on the Russian market and, of course, an essay about the new Autodesk engine.

Lithuanian studio Realore announced the launch of a time manager about the Olympic gods Divine Academy.

Stepan Solovyov, Marketing Director of Appodeal, told his observations about the nature of the relationship between the rating and the position of games in the top.

The Fruit Ninja title from Halfbrick celebrates its fifth anniversary and the first billion downloads. The authors of the game told about this on the official website of the studio.

Square Enix has announced the release date of the company’s second game with the subtitle Go – Lara Croft Go.

Zynga has published financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2015. The company ended it on June 30 with a net loss of $27 million.

The number of mobile players in China in the first half of 2015 exceeded 366 million. Tech in Asia writes about this with reference to a study by the Chinese media corporation Sina Corp.

The LINE company, which owns the messenger of the same name, together with the Korean mobile game developer LongTu Korea will launch the Lantu Games game studio. The information appeared in LINE’s press release.