The organizers of Winter Nights 2015 have made the schedule of the February conference publicly available. About the most interesting lectures – in our material.

The death of retail, the ease of releasing games on the shelves of the App Store and Google Play, the monopolization of digital PC retail by Steam, the cheapening of development tools, the popularization of free-to-play – all this raised the indie movement a few years ago and, in fact, killed the publishing model. But it is quite possible that very soon we will witness its return to the market. 

Swedes from MAG Interactive invested money in the mobile game studio Delinquent from England. The exact amount was not disclosed.

Everyplay shared an infographic in which she revealed who pays in mobile games and how. We offer the Russian version of the study.

There are two projects in the collection for Monday: Dragon Knights and Ambition of the Slimes.

Preparing for the release of Dungeon Hunter 5 from Gameloft.

Firaxis studio together with 2K announced the space turn-based strategy Sid Meier’s Starships, created under the influence of Civilization: Beyond Earth. 

Preparing for the release of Ultimate General: Gettysburg on iPad from Game Labs studio. 

Interactive advertising from mNectar allows the user to play a mobile game directly in the ad itself.  

Within the framework of the mobile gaming platform of the VKontakte social network, a new game has been released – “The Expendables” (aka Pocket Troops) from the Minsk studio Heyworks.

We accidentally came across a curious, though not very recent infographic (the last event was Helgason’s departure from the post of CEO) dedicated to the history of Unity.

Last week we released a huge analysis of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood; detailed material on how much you can earn on Windows Phone; a list of all gaming conferences this month and much, much more.

Unity has announced the start of open beta testing of its own analytical system Unity Analytics.

Today we have three projects in the selection that I will definitely be able to entertain you on the upcoming weekend: The Horus Heresy: Drop Assault, Gemcrafter and Airship Bakery.

App Annie a couple of days ago introduced the Usage Intelligence tool, which allows you to track competitors in applications: the number of active users; the average number of sessions per user; the average session time; the total number of sessions and the total time spent in the application.

Chinese users believe that the gaming industry has no cultural value, and the games themselves have been recognized as a waste of time,” Karvin Sun, a developer from China, shared on his blog.

On GamesIndustry.biz there was a small material The right way to monetize kids?, in which the president of the animation studio Nerd Corps Ken Faier (Ken Faier) told, among other things, what is the fundamental difference between the entertainment market for children 30 years ago and now. Briefly about this difference – in our note.

Tag Games studio from Scotland presented the original ChilliSource engine at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015.