The authors of the Angry Birds series are launching a new studio. She will work in the capital of Great Britain – London.

Android developers have been able to track payments through the Google Play Developer Console.

The former lead artist of Angry Birds created a game in three weeks that earned $24,000 in a week.

The fastest growing segment of the mobile games market is Southeast Asia. The largest countries in the region are growing by an average of 45.7%, according to the analytical company Newzoo.

Today, January 13, Nintendo held a large–scale presentation of its new console – the Nintendo Switch. She spoke in detail about the possibilities and future games of the platform.

The Russian-Swedish publisher and developer of G5 sued the Russian studio MyTona in connection with non-fulfillment of obligations.

The developers of the hit three-in-a-row from Jam City earn $400 million a year on their projects. In 2017, they plan to enter the stock market.

The Russian value added tax on Steam was included in the price of the product: the store deducts the tax not from users, but from itself and developers.

One of the main box office hits on PC and consoles in 2016 – a project about radio–controlled cars kicking a soccer ball – took a new milestone – 25 million registered players.

Developer and publisher Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has taken on serious cuts. The company is closing a studio in Bellevue and laying off some employees from three American offices.

In 2001, significantly more cool games were released than in 2016, according to Metacritic estimates.

The Japanese company GungHo, 8 months after the release of the Chinese version of Puzzle & Dragons, is going to close it.

Why are there so few new games in the tower defense genre today and is it worth singing a memorial service for him?

The founder of SpaceX and the head of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, in an interview with the CEO of the Y Combinator venture fund, Sam Altman, criticized the latest Deus Ex for the plot and noted that the stories used to be better in games.

App Annie has published an index of top mobile companies and applications for December 2016. The charts of the most successful games of last month included a mobile reinvention of Lineage II.

Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, spoke about the important role of restrictions in game design within the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.

In the USA and Europe, in December 2016, Euro Truck Simulator 2 entered the top hardcore PC projects in terms of the number of unique gaming sessions in addition to the usual leaders, like League of Legends.

The indie team Stoic is planning to release the third part of the series The Banner Saga. Where to get money for its development is an open question: sales of the first two series of invested money were not repulsed.

A new VR game development studio has appeared. It is called Experiment 7. It is going to specialize in projects simulating the experience of playing board projects. Founded by Zynga and EEDAR veterans.