We publish a funny and at the same time very interesting article about the current indie developers authored by Gur Dotan, co-founder and vice president of marketing at SOOMLA.

A platform for creating VR applications has been launched. Its developers are the Argentine Voxelus team founded by industry veterans. According to the authors, the platform will allow anyone to create games for virtual reality.

Tencent overtook Supercell in monthly revenue from the App Store, Angry Birds 2 turned out to be the world download champion, and Happy Wheels managed to become one of the most downloaded iOS games in the world in August in a week – read about this in our brief version of the App Annie report for August 2015.

In addition to the seven internal studios already closed by Gameloft earlier this year, an eighth one was added – in the city of Seattle.

A teaser has been released (which is actually so long that it’s almost a trailer) to The Angry Birds Movie. And he… nothing.

GAMEVIL Europe CEO David Mohr, who will be speaking at White Nights Moscow 2015, answered some of our questions regarding the work of the Korean giant.

Animoka Brands is going to promote the Armies of Dragons project in Asia together with the Chinese corporation Tencent. For this purpose, the company will use the WeChat messenger.

Despite the absence of an official denial, Konami employees continue to assure the gaming community that their company is not going to leave the console games market.

Yesterday, September 21, during the UNITE session in Boston, it became known about the launch of the Unity Technologies information resource.

From April 1 to July 31, 2.5 billion downloads of games created on Unity were made, – the authors of the engine said in the first issue of their own report “By the numbers“.

A third of gaming industry workers do not receive overtime pay. This is reported in a study conducted by IGDA.

Following our colleagues with PocketGamer.biz we have discovered a new trend: Clash of Clans is no longer an unambiguous box office leader. For example, in Russia, the box office of another strategy – Game of War – turned out to be larger in August.

The analytical company Newzoo claims that by 2018 the volume of the esports market will reach $ 765 million.

An American company with Russian roots – Sperasoft – took on the post of senior technical director of the former director of release management of Rockstar Games.

On Friday, the French gaming resource Gameblog shared that Konami will stop developing console games and focus almost entirely on mobile. It was reported that the only console franchise of the Japanese company will be the Pro Evolution Soccer series. Konami representatives denied the rumors.

The largest American electronic store has announced the second generation of the Fire TV set-top box, as well as its gaming version, complete with a gamepad.

Zynga has bought the Rising Tide Games game studio, co-founded by Maytal Olsha. In the past, she served as the head of the social slots department at Zynga.

The games of the Swedish studio Toca Boca, which specializes in mobile applications for children, have been downloaded a total of 100 million times. In honor of this event, the company shared an infographic.

Chuck Doud, the head of the music department of the American branch of Sony Computer Entertainment, advises developers to think about the soundtrack at the earliest stages of development.