Nintendo’s first mobile project will be a mobile app, not a game.

The British company Playtech has acquired for $ 16.4 million the Scottish studio YoYo Games, which develops and supports the multi-platform game engine GameMaker.

The Chinese New Year is on the nose, and on this occasion – a few words from analysts from Niko Partners about what awaits the mobile gaming market of China in 2015.

The UK’s largest tabloid, The Sun, has announced plans to create a mobile gaming platform where users can bet for real money.

Despite the large losses, the year ended on a positive note for the American company.

The updated Empires & Allies game from Zynga has launched in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Zynga has announced the launch of a game in the match-3 genre based on its own FarmVille franchise, the Venturebeat resource reports.

The authors of Candy Crush and Bubble Witch reported to investors last year. Despite the release of Candy Crush Soda Saga and aggressive advertising during the Christmas season, the British continue to lose paying users.

The British publisher and developer King has acquired the Z2Live game studio in the USA. This is the first studio bought by the company in America.

A selection of paid games without micropayments has appeared in the American App Store.

At the Winter Nights 2015 conference that just ended, we took a short interview with the author of the Siberia dilogy, Benoît Sokal.

Success in the entertainment industry is always difficult to predict. The reason is that an unpredictable and extremely complex network of social influences plays a dominant role in it. Investors struggle with this in a very obvious way: by investing in a wide portfolio of projects.

As part of the financial report for 2014, Activision Blizzard told how much its leading projects earned in the twelve months of the previous year, and how many players they have.

We wondered if the appearance of an initially mobile project on PC would be an important event for the mobile games industry?

The executive director of Super Evil Megacorp Christian Segerstrale at the 2015 DICE Summit developer conference shared the lessons he learned from his extensive experience in the gaming industry.

One of the largest publishers in the Japanese market is going through hard times. The company’s net losses for the last fiscal quarter amounted to ¥ 7.66 billion ($64.8 million). It was less only in 2008.

The financial success of the paid Monument Valley can be repeated in China, according to iDreamSky, one of the largest publishers in the Chinese market.

How minimalism reduces the cost, what the Hungarian gaming industry is today, why paid games are more often promoted in the App Store – we talked about this and much more with Invictus Games CEO Tamas Kozak.