GREE International is forced to reduce its staff by 30%. This is written by the Venturebeat resource with reference to information from the director of the production company Andrew Sheppard (Andrew Sheppard).

The creator of Oculus VR virtual reality helmets has bought the Israeli company Pebbles Interfaces, which develops “computer vision” technologies.

The Skolkovo Foundation told App2Top.ru , which will give a grant of 5 million rubles to the winner in the nomination “Technologies and tools for creating games” within the framework of the upcoming investment competition/forum Web&Tech Ready 2015.

RockYou has acquired two card applications from the developer MavenHut. The amount of the transaction is not called.

Is it difficult to get a license to develop a mobile game, and how ethical is the presence of IAP in children’s games – we talked about this and not only with Apps Ministry.

Finns from Supercell will hold an event for fans of the Clash of Clans game. The event called ClashCon will take place on October 24 in Helsinki.

The British company Marmalade, the developer of the cross-platform SDK, will launch a mobile games studio in Lisbon. This is reported by Pocketgamer.biz .

In Russia, the App Store has “broken”. Of the eight key world releases of this week, only one was included in the domestic selection.

Hipster Whale Studio, the creator of Crossy Road, has opened an online store selling gaming products.

The other day, the world release of the Taichi Panda role-playing slasher by the Chinese company Snail Games took place. In this regard, we contacted the team and asked them a few questions.

The revenue of the Fallout Shelter time manager from Bethesda studio for two weeks amounted to $ 5.1 million. The amount was named by the analytical firm Superdata, having studied the position of the game in the world charts in June.

The daughter of the retailer GameStop announced Launchpad, a program to help indie teams in game design, creating UI and UX, setting up monetization, promotion and analytics.

GameAnalytics, a company specializing in game analytics, announced the launch of the Runway publishing label. The specialization of the new direction of the Copenhagen team is to help independent teams in the “soft launch” of projects.

On the morning of July 16, in the Kharkiv office of the international company Plarium, employees of the tax police of Ukraine began a search. The check is carried out under the article on tax evasion.

It seems that the “apple” corporation hastened with the introduction of new budget price tags for Russia. The other day it became known about the growing demand in our country for expensive devices.

Beijing-based game studio Wozlla has received $2 million from Greenwoods Asset Management to develop its HTML5 technology.

About the main problems in the development of KingsRoad and the distribution of income from it between platforms, as well as about the monetization of Fallout Shelter, in our short interview with Rumble Interactive.

Former Ubisoft executive producer Jade Raymond will open the EA Motive studio in Montreal and become its head. Raymond reports about this on the official website of Electronic Arts.

The Gameloft branch in New York closed, the staff was fired. This was announced by the lead programmer of the local branch of the company Kevin Chen (Kevin Chen) on Facebook.