Snake Rewind, a modern interpretation of the world’s first game that appeared on mobile devices – Snake, was released on the shelves of the largest mobile markets yesterday.

Chinese telecommunications giant Tencent has bought a 20% stake in the American studio Pocket Gems for $ 60 million.

The Ukrainian company Nika Entertainment shared with App2Top.ru the history of the development of his game in the genre of “three-in-a-row” – “Miracle Mix“.

The authors of mobile Solitaire reported overcoming the mark of 250 million installations of all their mobile games.

The Japanese company GREE has announced the closure of its game studio in Vancouver.

For the fourth fiscal quarter of 2014, the Monster Strike battler of the Japanese company mixi brought its developers a crazy $333.8 million.

The Korean company Com2us continues to “burn”. Its net revenue for the first three months of this year amounted to $24.5 million.

Recently, the Cash4app mobile developer Development Fund was launched in Russia, providing money for the promotion of ready-made projects. App2Top.ru I talked to the head of the foundation about his work.

The Japanese publisher of budget games for PC and consoles D3 Publisher has announced a change in publishing policy and its own name in the United States.

The Japanese company is going to remove a number of its games from the App Store, Google Play, Samsung Apps and Amazon Appstore due to questions about their quality.

A couple of weeks ago, the first meeting of the Unity engine user community in Russia took place in St. Petersburg – Unity User Group.

May is over, spring is on the nose, and we have a traditional selection of the best materials for the past week.

At the end of April, the gaming company Gameloft announced the release of the Asphalt Nitro mobile title. Almost the only detail about the game was its weight – 15 MV.

Jonathan Raveh is the director of the Department of Cooperation and Public Relations at Appnext, which owns the marketing platform of the same name. In his blog on the Gamasutra resource, he told why keywords are no longer a promotion tool – and how to solve this problem.

All incorrectly working assets will disappear from the Asset Store. A message about this appeared in the official Russian-speaking Unity user group.

A closed event aimed at console game developers will be held in Moscow on May 14.

Kristian Segerstrale, whose Super Evil Megacorp studio launched MOBA Vainglory at the end of last year, spoke about the lessons he learned from working on the game.

Having earned $20 million on one clone of Clash of Clans, Space Ape Games is releasing its second clone of clashes — with a story from Rhianna Pratchett and music from the author of the soundtrack to Mass Effect.

On iOS, the third-person bagel Legend of Grimrock from the independent Finnish studio Almost Human has appeared on sale.