The developers of Toca Boca children’s games were acquired by Spin Master, a manufacturer of physical toys from Canada.

Vladimir Funtikov, CEO of Creative Mobile, told us at the GameDev Days 2016 conference about how Creative Mobile works, how much customization of cars brings to Nitro Nation Online and why Clash Royale is not the best game in the world.

The volume of the gaming segment in mobile will reach $36.9 billion by the end of this year. The forecasts were shared by the analytical company Newzoo.

Seven veterans of the gaming industry have launched a new mobile game development studio Armada Interactive in Helsinki and have already managed to attract $3 million in investments.

The company Gumi, which fired the Brave Frontier buttler a couple of years ago, announced the closure of the Canadian studio, created less than two years ago, as well as the termination of operations in a number of regions.

Russian Internet giant Mail.ru Group spoke about the financial results of the first quarter of this year, and at the same time revealed a couple of interesting details of its social and gaming projects.

At the beginning of the week, one of the authors of DirectX said that the creators of games do not have such a hard job. And in general, game dev is an art. And if you don’t like it, then get out of the profession. We tell you what reaction it caused.

The Unity game engine was actively used by the team of director Jon Favreau during the filming of the latest Disney blockbuster about Mowgli.

GSN Games, a company specializing in the development and publication of gambling mobile games, has acquired the Spanish studio Gamedonia.

In the first quarter of 2016, China surpassed Japan in terms of money collected from iOS users (including money from games).

At GameDev Days 2016, which was held by Creative Mobile, we discussed with Eric Seufert, vice president for acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, how much it actually costs to acquire users, how to properly apply cross-promotion and what are the pros and cons of video advertising.

The Russian company GS Group, which launched the GS Gamekit Android console last February, announced an online cyber tournament on the mobile game Nitro Nation Stories with the main prize of 1 million rubles.

Almost a quarter of NAT Games, run by Yong-Hyun Park, the lead developer of Lineage 2 and TERA, was bought by Nexon.

The developers of the new strategy game NeoWars have proposed a compromise type of monetization.

JuiceBox Games, which was founded 3.5 years ago by former Zynga employees, is closing. And this is despite two ready-made and quite successful games, a feature from Google and Apple and $8 million earned. To explain why this happened, the creator of the studio, Michael Martinez, wrote a large article for the portal Medium.com . We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

After the launch of the “Save the Planet” program in the App Store, the Best Fiends game rose by about 1000 points in the American top of free iOS applications.

In January of this year, the publisher tunyBuild released the Punch Club game, the main channel of promotion of which was the Twitch streaming service. The title brought the creators the first million in ten days. Yesterday, April 14, tunyBuild launched a stream on the same service to promote the SpeedRunners game, which is now in early access on Steam. We decided to find out the details of the campaign and along the way find…

Epic Games has officially announced the opening of the Berlin office. It will be headed by Paw Larsen and Sergey Galenkin. The first will be responsible for Western Europe, the second for Eastern Europe.  We talked with Sergey Galenkin about what exactly the office will do.

Russian Facebook user posted this question: “Where can I find useful information on Gamedev in Russian?”. And got a lot of useful links. We could not pass by such a selection and share the most interesting resources.