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.

The president and CEO of the Japanese Nintendo corporation Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. Information about this appeared on the official website of the company.

Chinese studio Snail Games is suing Skymoons. At the same time, Blizzard has claims against Snail Games itself. The reason in both cases is copyright infringement.

Why a mobile game needs a story from Rihanna Pratchett, is there a place for midcore in the market and why venture capital is needed – he told about this and not only at Unite Europe 2015 in an interview App2Top.ru Technical Director of Space Ape Games Simon Watmough.

Shareware games must be recognized as illegal,” the author of the Minecraft game Markus Persson said on his Twitter account.

The Marvel Future Fight game from the Korean company Netmarble has been downloaded 20 million times. It’s all about the popular IP, analysts at App Annie are sure.

In June, PinkApp publisher signed an agreement with the Noclip indie team to finance and publish the Please Stand By project, which participated in GamesJam Kanobu. About why Noclip engaged in independent development, its founders told App2Top.ru .

The Finnish mobile games market is going through another cycle today: teams founded by people from console development studios appear on the local stage one after another.

Japanese media giant Gree is investing in Indonesian mobile game studio Touchten. The amount was not disclosed.

The first joint project of Nintendo and DeNA for mobile will be monetized according to the free-to-start scheme. This is reported by the Pocketgamer resource with reference to the speech of Nintendo President Satoru Iwata for the company’s investors.

About half of European developers plan to release games for mobile. This is reported in a study conducted by representatives of the European branch of the GDC.