Crytek has signed a licensing agreement with Amazon. Under the terms of the deal, the American retailer receives the rights to use the CryEngine engine. This is reported by the Kotaku resource with reference to sources close to the management of Amazon.

Gamevil company together with developer Kong Studios will release the game Dungeon Link. In promoting the game, the publisher uses pre-registration for content – a technique that is common in the Asian gaming market.

Chinese publisher Chukong together with Microsoft are holding a competition for mobile developers for the best game for Windows on the Cocos2d-x engine. The prize for the first place will be $ 25 thousand.

The American startup Netherfire adapts Asian games for a Western user.

Acquaintance with one game today led me to the question: is it possible to successfully “mislead” the target audience by offering her a non-standard (for the audience) product in a wrapper familiar to her? In other words, will the hardcore setting, for example, allow the corresponding users to put up with casual gameplay and vice versa? As for the selection, today we have Dead Shell and Juice Jam.

The Pollen venture fund offers mobile gaming startups money for the already existing revenue of the game, which developers have yet to receive from the store.

Yandex has prepared a study on the development of the Internet in the regions of Russia. The main idea is that the number of those who go online from a smartphone or tablet has grown significantly.

Ten of our best articles over the past week, from which you will learn why the profitability of shareware games is falling, how to find out that your project will earn a million, which new game Supercell has launched, and much more.

I’m afraid I’m repeating myself, but the question remains relevant for me: which flies faster – the working week or the weekend. And while you’re thinking, I suggest you look at a couple of decent strategy games. Meet: Crowntakers and Dominations.

The New York startup Gondola launches an engine for estimating and changing the value of IAP (Dynamic Pricing Engine). It will automatically “adjust” the price of in-game purchases for each specific user.

The designer of Civilization II and Rise of Nations, Tim Train, in honor of the release of his new mobile game, shared his thoughts on the development of mobile strategies with the Usgamer resource.

As a result of the cooperation between mNectar and Branch Metrics, a new interactive advertising will appear. It will allow the user to play the game in the banner, and if they like it, download it and continue playing from where they left off.

MOBA Vainglory takes another step towards esports. The so-called “observer mode” has appeared in the game.

This Saturday, April 4 at 19:30, the ZeptoLab Code Rush 2015 Sports Programming Championship starts.

Nexon gaming company has acquired the Korean mobile studio Boolean Games. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Today we decided to release material about games a little earlier – until the evening. So meet: Hellrider, Tap’n Slash and Crystal Arena.

The Dallas startup Aireal has come up with augmented reality technology that will fix virtual images at a certain “width, longitude and height”. You will need a mobile device to read these images.

We have posted video reports from this winter’s conference for developers and publishers of mobile games Winter Nights 2015.

In 2016, $101.37 billion will be spent on mobile advertising, according to the analytical company eMarketer in its research. This is 400% more than in 2013.