Indies can make big games too. The Fabulapps team, consisting of two people who have never met in person, has been making its own Clash of Clans for two years now with step-by-step combat and without pay-to-win monetization.

In light of the relatively imminent release of Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC and consoles, Square Enix has stepped up. The second mobile game of the summer about the adventures of the English aristocrat and tomb raider Lara Croft is on the way – Lara Croft Go.

Razer acquired the company Ouya, which owns the authorship of the game console of the same name. The transaction amount has not been named. Information about this appeared on the website of the investment bank Mesa Global, according to the Pocketgamer resource.

App2Top.ru before the opening of White Nights 2015, he is going to introduce projects that have entered the second round of the Indie Game Cup 2015. Today we will briefly talk about the first three projects (out of eighteen).

Publisher RockYou has acquired the rights to six existing games from developer Kiwi. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The RockYou management informed the Re/code resource about this.

The Japanese gaming market reached $9.6 billion by the end of 2014. It grew by 4% compared to 2013 thanks to mobile. This is written by analyst Serkan Toto with reference to a study published in the gaming publication Famitsu.

On the first day of White Nights 2015, a round table “About the mobile gaming business frankly” will be held with the participation of Game Insight (Max Donskikh), Creative Mobile (Vladimir Funtikov), G5 Games (Tatiana Timoshenko), Playrix (Igor Bukhman) and Nekki (Sergey Babaev). The moderator will be Yulia Lebedeva from Nevosoft. We propose to come up with questions for its participants.

The creators of Empire: Four Kingdoms have hired the former executive director of the King Studio in Malmo, Daniel Persson, as the head of the casual direction. This is reported by the resource Develop Online with reference to information from the heads of Goodgame Studios.

The Forge of Empires project from the German studio InnoGames has brought its creators more than €100 million in three years since its launch.

A startup from Helsinki called Ministry of Games received €1.8 million for a mobile game.

Cmune received $1.4 million from the publisher and developer of Starbreeze. With this money, the studio will release a mobile version of the Payday shooter.

The analytical company Newzoo said that starting in June, it plans to regularly publish monthly mobile gaming iOS tops in the United States, China and Europe.

We are watching and discussing the top five App2Top materials for the past week.

In addition to Fallout Shelter, Americans from Bethesda at E3 announced another mobile project — The Elder Scrolls Legends card collectible game.

At its presentation at E3, Bethesda announced the launch of the mobile free-to-play game Fallout Shelter.

In the advertisement for the mobile game Game of War from the Machine Zone studio, singer Mariah Carey will appear instead of model Kate Upton. Information about this appeared in the online resource TMZ.

The second project of the authors of Bastion unexpectedly – without announcements and promises – appeared on the virtual shelves of the App Store.

In October, with the support of Skolkovo, the 7th open competition and investment forum for projects in the field of IT – Web&Tech Ready will be held. Among the declared directions are gaming technologies.

Bill Mooney, Vice President of Electronic Arts, shared with the resource Pocketgamer.biz with your thoughts on why The Simpsons: Tapped Out is better than the “pro stars” games.