In 2015, gaming sessions became shorter than the year before. Such conclusions were reached by the mobile analytics and marketing firm Flurry.

The authors of League of Legends announced their own event in Moscow, aimed at professionals in the development and publication of games, esports and specialized media.

Mind Candy company violated the rules on the distribution of in-game purchases in children’s games. The English studio was accused of this by the local Advertising Standards Commission ASA (Advertising Standards Authority).

The Moscow-based company Nekki has released the Beat da Beat game from the independent 2Players team in the App Store.

Publisher and developer COLOPL, author of the popular Japanese Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz, will open a division in the USA.

Game developers who prefer Linux to other operating systems have been given the opportunity to create projects on Unity within their favorite OS.

With the light hand of the English-language podcast The Meeple Syrup Show, dedicated to the design of board games, the popular and at the same time useful hashtag #ShareAGameDesignTip appeared on Twitter.

Cartographer of “Songs of Ice and Fire” John Roberts (Jon Roberts) in his blog told how to draw a map of the city correctly. It seemed to us that this topic might be interesting, including for mobile game developers, and we translated the material into Russian.

Startup Resolution Games received $6 million in investments. According to the resource version Pocketgamer.biz this is the largest amount ever received by a studio engaged in the development of games for VR devices.

The game Star Wars: Commander celebrates the first year since its launch. On this occasion, the authors of the game, Disney Interactive and Lucasfilm, shared an infographic.

The creators of the Angry Birds series have announced the beginning of a restructuring of their business, in which the company plans to lay off up to 260 people.

The developer of the original Puzzle Quest, Infinite Interactive studio, together with the Wizard of the Coast company will create a game Magic: The Gathering – Puzzle Quest based on the Magic: The Gathering universe.

On September 10, gaming giant Konami will begin removing its premium projects from the Japanese market from the App Store.

The situation around the confrontation between Machine Zone and Kabam takes an interesting turn. It became known that a former employee of Machine Zone was taken into custody on charges of stealing confidential information about the company.

YouTube Gaming is launching today, August 26. It will offer gamers themed videos and the possibility of broadcasts.

The authors of Battlestation: Harbinger, a Finnish Bugbyte studio, spoke about their experience in combating piracy on Android using game notifications.

Games with screaming little men depicted on their icons are more popular than others. The Israeli marketing platform ironSource came to such conclusions.

The analytical company App Annie recently presented its report on the state of the mobile games market for July. According to him, four games performed particularly well last month: Clash of Kings, Agar.io , Despicable Me and SpongeBob Moves In.

As part of the Creative Europe program, European developers received grants totaling $3.9 million (€3.4 million). This is reported by the Gamasutra resource with reference to the press release of Creative Europe representatives.