We continue to publish materials in our “Who’s Who” series (recall, instead of posting game announcements from young and not only studios, we invite them to tell about themselves). This time we talked to Kharkiv Heart beat Games.

Former Epic Games game designer Cliff Bleszinski told Destructoid in an interview why he left the gaming industry in 2012.

King, the author of the Candy Crush series, has a new HR director. His name is Mark Taylor, and before the gaming company, he worked for the Burberry fashion house.

A brief history of the GO series and how the development of Hitman GO and Lara Croft GO went the other day, Venture Beat was told by one of the authors of the games.

By the end of this year, the mobile games market in China will reach $5.5 billion and outgrow the US gaming market. These forecasts were shared by the analytical firm Niko Partners, which specializes in the Asian region.

The other day on DTF.ru a tender was announced for the development of a military-economic strategy. The applicant was Dmitry Arkhipov, who previously held the post of vice president for development of Akella, one of the leading Russian publishers of zero games.

One of the structural divisions of the Higher School of Economics has been recruiting students for the second time for a professional retraining program in the direction of “game development”. We asked the producer of the program Vyacheslav Utochkin about this initiative.

The fourth generation of Apple TV, which Apple is going to present as part of the upcoming event scheduled for September 9, was created with an eye to gaming.

Apple has suspended money transfers to those Russian companies whose payment details indicate Sberbank.

The authors of Blood Brothers presented the Mirrativ platform, with which mobile device users will be able to stream everything that happens on their screen.

New details have emerged in the litigation between Machine Zone and Kabam. The scandal at the cocktail party, associated with the name of supermodel Kate Upton, develops into an investment story.

Amazon is willing to pay $0.002 to developers for a minute spent by each user in the game.

Mind Candy company violated the rules on the distribution of in-game purchases in children’s games. The English studio was accused of this by the local Advertising Standards Commission ASA (Advertising Standards Authority).

Publisher and developer COLOPL, author of the popular Japanese Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz, will open a division in the USA.

With the light hand of the English-language podcast The Meeple Syrup Show, dedicated to the design of board games, the popular and at the same time useful hashtag #ShareAGameDesignTip appeared on Twitter.

The creators of the Angry Birds series have announced the beginning of a restructuring of their business, in which the company plans to lay off up to 260 people.

On September 10, gaming giant Konami will begin removing its premium projects from the Japanese market from the App Store.

The situation around the confrontation between Machine Zone and Kabam takes an interesting turn. It became known that a former employee of Machine Zone was taken into custody on charges of stealing confidential information about the company.

YouTube Gaming is launching today, August 26. It will offer gamers themed videos and the possibility of broadcasts.