The Unsung Heroes initiative from the international publishing group Spil Games won the game A Day In The Woods. The author of the project was RetroEpic Software studio from South Africa.

The authors of Township told about the creation of the project, about how work with remote employees is built, and also shared the history of the launch in China.

Levi Buchanan, head of development at Chillingo, talked about which games have a chance of success and which do not.

The French publisher and developer of mobile games Gameloft has opened a new internal studio – this time in Minsk, the capital of the Republic of Belarus.

Western mobile publishers in search of new promising markets need to pay attention not to China, but to India. The Gamesindustry resource came to this conclusion after studying the issue.

More than 90% of in-game purchases in countries such as Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are “pirated”.

As part of the Android Developer Summit 2015, which opened yesterday in California, Google launched a preview version of the Android Studio 2.0 development environment.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is the report Kirill Oreshkina, Head of the Wargaming Video Department. The topic of his report was: “How Wargaming uses content.”

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is the report Alexandra Lukina, product manager of AppMetrica, an analytical product of Yandex. The topic of his report was: “AppMetrica tips and tricks – effective analytics and marketing.”

Jessica Jones, the main character of the TV series of the same name, appeared in two Marvel mobile games. This happened right after the premiere of the series on Netflix.

A mobile game based on the Futurama TV series is in development. The development is led by the authors of Diamond Dash and Jelly Splash – Germans from Wooga.

Apple will celebrate the Christmas holidays by closing its main services for a week, from December 22 to December 29 inclusive. This became known from a blog post for developers.

Google will return the Google Play store to China. This is reported by the Reuters news agency, citing sources familiar with the situation.

Differentiation of game genres by popularity among men and women, reduction of the minimum purchase price on Google Play, methods of calculating LTV – this and much more in our traditional selection of the main materials for the last working week.

The announcement of the ninja bear title, a documentary about the creation of an RPG, a game about Rocky Balboa and the release of Warhammer 40K: Freeblade.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is the report Timur Markunin from IBM. The topic of his report was: “Overview of IBM cloud services”.

The release of the mobile game Princess Bride based on the movie of the same name took place.

The designer for creating TutoTOONS mobile games from the Lithuanian-Ukrainian team of the same name has gained 50 million downloads. This is reported in the blog of the application developers.