Interviews with the authors of Skyward, a list of sites to which you can send the game for review, a visual guide to setting tasks for game designers – this is not only in our digest for the past week. 

After a short break, we continue our column about the best releases. Today there are four mobile projects in the selection: Evolve: Hunters Quest, Titans, Gourmet Ranch and Epic Racers.

The majority of English game developers work more than they should according to the law,” says the Develop-online resource based on a study conducted among its readers.

On January 8, a cute bubble Hero Pop was released in the App Store. Developers from the Ukrainian studio Nravo shared with us the history of its creation.

The other day, App Annie summed up the results of the year in the App Annie Index: 2014 Retrospective study. From it, you can find out not only what place Russia occupies in terms of revenue and downloads in the world, but also how the market for mobile applications and games as a whole has changed over the past year. We present his squeeze.

A version of the Unity 4.6.2 engine with 64-bit architecture support for iOS has appeared, according to the company’s official blog.

Following Gumi, another game developer, Silicon Studio, is going to enter the Japanese stock market.

The immobile news, which, nevertheless, we cannot miss: Valve reported that since 2011, third-party developers have earned more than $57 million on creating additional content for Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Ubisoft company simultaneously with the remaster of Heroes of Might and Magic III, the cult turn-based strategy of the late 90s for PC, published its mobile versions.

The revenues of the French mobile giant last year amounted to a solid sum of € 227.3 million ($257 million). This is 3% less than the company earned in 2013. 

In twenty days on Google Play, the Crossy Road game has been downloaded more than 10 million times, – it became known from the official press release of the game publishers.

The mobile version of the Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy reissue costs twice as much as the PC version due to the different pricing policies of electronic stores in Russia.

A game about deadly diseases Plague Inc helps fight the Ebola virus.

Tomorrow – on the night of January 29-30 – the game will start GameDevParty.ru . It will last a week. The voting on the choice of a theme for game development is now ending, so you can still have time to take part. The authors of the project position it as a Russian-language Ludum Dare.

American users who play on smartphones and tablets spend 57% more time in mobile games than two years ago, NPD Group analysts found.