The authors of Cut the Rope announced work on a new project – King of Thieves. The novelty is announced as a “multiplayer project for iOS with platformer elements and tower defense”.

The vice president of Appsee believes that the developers of mobile applications will be better able to draw any conclusions about the behavior of users – heat maps. 

Com2us invited the stars of the Vine video network and a street artist to advertise the Summoners War game.

Applications for participation in the Stugan initiative are open, the purpose of which is to help talented developers from all over the world to declare themselves. The event will be held from July 1 to August 31. You need to submit an application before March 31.

Three amazing games have been released today: Skyward, Rocket Cars and Blood Brothers 2. We will tell you about them in our today’s issue.

Ben Serviss, a programmer, game designer and game producer from New York, described the stages of creating a text game in his blog. We have translated the text with his permission and are sharing it with you.

Today we wrote where it will be possible to gather in St. Petersburg to work on your projects for Global Game Jam together with friends and industry colleagues. There will be such a place in Moscow too.

Communication with industry acquaintances often leads to certain thoughts about what game development should and should not be. Based on such conversations, we have written a short article about possible managerial mistakes when creating games.

From January 23 to January 25, St. Petersburg will join the Global Game Jam game development marathon. The participants will be hosted by the local Wargaming office. The event is organized by NextCastle Party with the support of Unity.

Today we have two great projects in our game collection – The Witcher Battle Arena and Retro Wings.

The next event in the DevNight series will be held in Dnepropetrovsk this Saturday, January 24.

German publisher and developer Wooga has announced a game called Agent Alice in the hidden object genre. The title will be released on iOS and Android on February 26, – the Venturebeat resource reports.

Game video streaming today is one of the most unusual, but at the same time important trends in the gaming industry. However, there are not so many players in this segment yet.

The LetterPad game from the NimbleBit studio can be played, including on the Apple Watch. 

Finns from the studio are seriously promoting their match-3 game Best Fiends with the help of the PewDiePie letsplayer.

Analysts from the investment bank Digi-capital told how much game developers have earned this year on the sale and withdrawal of their companies for IPO, and also explained why indies, unlike average teams, will survive.

Tommy Palm, the creator of the Candy Crush Saga version for mobile devices, is leaving King for his own startup.

The Moscow-based company Nekki, known for games such as Vector and Shadow Fight, has announced an initiative to finance and publish independent projects. The first game that the company will release as a publisher will be Beat the Beat. Sergey Babaev, Director of Business Development at Nekki, said App2Top.ru why the company decided to take up the publication of third-party projects.