At the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference held in Finland, the authors of Angry Birds announced that they are working on a midcore project. The first details of the project became known the other day.

Sales of the Punch Club game by indie studio Lazy Bear Games have reached $2 million in two months since its launch.

About personal relationships at work, the situation with IAP in the mobile games market, the release of the Russian console and much more – in our selection of the main materials of the week.

What is the secret of the success of Clash Royale, the new Supercell game, — I tried to find out in my article Adam Telfer from Wooga. Dmitry Krasavin translated the material and shared it with us.

The number of game studios in Scotland has grown by 600% in five years, details of a toy for Iron Maiden fans have appeared, and Facebook has been named the best advertiser in mobile.

Most of the marketing budget of top-grossing mobile games is spent on advertising on social networks and on video. The AdColony advertising network told about this in its research report for the second half of 2015. Briefly about his main theses, – in our material.

A former Crytek employee, Hasit Zala, spoke about the financial problems that the studio faced in 2014.

The authors of the box office hit The Walking Dead: Road to Survival from the California company Scopely made a “soft launch” of Breaking Bad: Empire Business.

White Nights Helsinki 2016 ended a week ago. The conference summed up the results of the White Nights Game Industry Awards 2015 and the Indie Game Cup Helsinki 2016. Let’s talk about them.

Simon Newstead, CEO and game designer of the Hong Kong company Frenzoo, told how the team is testing game art and icons. We have translated the text and are sharing it.

We are starting to upload videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. The first report is read by Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft.

Media mogul Vincent Bollore’s Vivendi Corporation is going to acquire mobile developer and publisher Gameloft at a price of €6 per share.

The series about the development and clash of civilizations, which debuted in 1991, has been purchased about 33 million times in a quarter of a century.

Director Guillermo del Toro (Guillermo del Toro) told how he sees the modern game industry, and that he may return to game development. But only together with Hideo Kojima (Hideo Kojima).

Starting next week, Android users will no longer need a Google+ social network account to play on their mobile device.

Two more games a la Kim Kardashian are coming out: Hollywood (pot, don’t cook!), Ubisoft, as promised, is releasing a classic Rayman for mobile, and the creators of AdVenture Capitalist are developing a clicker based on the MMORPG RuneScape.

The game Lost Socks: Naughty Brothers, which has been in development for more than three years from the St. Petersburg Nerf Game studio, has got a release date and a fresh trailer.

FunPlus has created a $50 million investment fund. The purpose of this foundation is to “promote outstanding independent developers and artists of the gaming industry.”

Microsoft has prepared a set of video lectures in Russian for those who plan to create VR applications, but do not know where to start. You can get acquainted with the video in our publication.