The main thing for the week (10.11.2014 – 14.11.2014)

Is it possible to do without game analysts, what did the Chinese play last October, where did the catwalk star Kate Upton come from in the Game of War advertisement? All this and much more is in a selection of our best materials for the week.

Game analysts are not needed?Egor Vasiliev, producer of the Moscow company Nexters (“Battle for the Throne”, “Full Pi”, “Dragon Day”, “City of the Dead”, etc.) on his Facebook page raised an urgent question about the role of analytics in game projects.

Pixonic Seminars: Team and roles in the projectThis week, Pixonic continued to publish the results (in fact, summaries) of training seminars that it conducts for its own employees in its blog.

Now you can get acquainted with them on our pages.

The 20 most popular games of ChinaNewzoo has presented a list of the 20 most popular Android games for the past October.

This time we decided to dispense with the boring enumeration of titles and publish gameplay videos of projects, fortunately, they will say exactly more than a dry selection.

Big Fish Games buy for $885 millionThe year of major deals continues.

American Churchill Downs Incorporated, engaged in a wide range of gambling and horse racing, is in the process of buying Big Fish Games. The transaction amount may reach $885 million.

Analysis of Warhammer 40,000: Space WolfLast week, Ilya Eremeev, creative director of A-Steroids, wrote an extensive post on his Facebook page dedicated to Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf.

With the kind permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

Kate Upton starred in a Game of War commercialThe promotion of mobile games is once again reaching a new level.

Model Kate Upton, star of Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition, starred in a Game of War commercial.