Zuckerberg’s social network summed up the gaming results of the outgoing year by presenting its own selection of projects that it considered the best.

Rovio seems to be getting into the habit of changing CEOs. Today, on December 9, the company announced the departure of Pekka Rantala from the post of CEO.

Recently it became known that the co-developer of the One Life shooter, Freeger studio, is developing its second project – the multiplatform strategy Mad Dogs. The executive producer of the studio Stepan Burlakov told us about what it will be like.

Successful applications in their best days on the tvOS platform earn a maximum of $100.

The second part of the crazy snow runner is slowly gaining the first millions of downloads.

William Grosso, CEO of Scientific Revenue, a company that optimizes prices for shareware games, told GamesBeat what will happen in the industry next year.

Beeline subscribers will now be able to pay for purchases in the Apple App Store, iTunes and Apple Music subscriptions from their phone account.

State Duma deputies propose to introduce a tax obliging foreign companies to pay VAT on the sale of all digital content sold in Russia.

As part of the announcement of Cut the Rope: Magic, the Russian studio ZeptoLab announced close cooperation with the mobile operator VimpelCom.

RockYou, the publisher of mobile and social games, announced a staff reduction in the American branch. 23 people or 10% of the company’s team in the USA will lose their place.

Nival CEO Sergey Orlovsky said that this year the Russian gaming market has returned to the situation of 5 years ago in terms of money.

There are three central mobile markets in the world today: Japan, the USA and China. About how you can get to the last one, – App2Top.ru Yulia Nabieva told me.

The Russian gaming market has been falling in dollars for three years now, and this year it will also fall in rubles,” said the leading analyst Wargaming.net and SteamSpy author Sergey Galenkin in his Twitter feed.

Published in China by Tencent, the domestic game Shadow Fight 2 by Nekki studio scored about 500 thousand downloads in the first 10 days.

The Indian mobile market recently had a holiday – for the first time in its history, the top free Google Play games were headed by a local development: pvp runner Chhota Bheem Race.

Russians began to spend much less on tablets. Over the last quarter, our compatriots spent almost 40% less on “pills” than a year earlier.

A trial launch of a new project from Glu Mobile took place. This time, the company presented to users a game with singer Katy Perry (Katy Perry) in the title role.

The Developer Online resource discussed with the heads of major studios what a developer needs to do to find the right publisher. We share a retelling.

The genre that enjoys the greatest commercial success among mobile games in Russia is strategy.