Google shared recordings of lectures on game development and launch from its own Playtime conferences. Speakers include Space Ape Games, Seriously and Kabam.

French media giant Vivendi continues to increase its stake in Ubisoft. The company already owns 25% of the developer of the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series.

After 3.6 million downloads on mobile, HeroCraft is porting a tactical strategy with elements of the Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf card battler to PC and changing its monetization.

Sony will release Project Field, an interactive whiteboard for board card games. The device is designed to “change the approach to card games.”

Apple has named the best games and apps of 2016 in the Russian App Store. The first place in the “Games” category was taken by Clash Royale.

For the three-dimensional cartoon “Moana”, Disney has released a mobile farm “Moana: Paradise Island“. The project was developed by Game Insight.

Minimalistic game Agar.io Miniclip has received 113 million downloads from the publisher.

Sales of Apple Watch smartwatches on the eve of the holidays have grown and reached record values. This is the best week in the history of the product,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told Reuters in an interview.

The prevalence of the seventh Android OS in the three months since its release reached 0.4%. The information was shared by Google.

In November of this year, an average of 792 new games were published in the App Store every day. Such data was shared by the Pocket Gamer resource.

Users are 30-40% more likely to click on native ads than on any other. This was announced by the startup YouAppi based on the results of data from user acquisition campaigns on its own OneRun platform.

In Facebook analytics for applications, statistics on the time of day and the division into time zones have appeared.

Mark Brown, indie developer and editor of Pocket Gamer resource, told how coding inspires the creation of non-banal puzzle games as part of the video cycle Game Maker’s Toolkit. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.

Tanya Evdokimenko, who headed the Playrix office in Kiev, announced her departure from the company. Evdokimenko launches his own consulting firm.

What is the difference between hardcore mobile strategies from each other, why and who plays them, as well as what difficulties their developers face, – said Stas Savvinykh, CEO of Novosibirsk Friday’s Games, in an interview with App2Top.

Digital sales for October this year increased by 14%. The growth happened thanks to a series of AAA releases.

The Google Play app store has published international and local lists of games that it considered the most popular in the outgoing 2016. In Russia, the main award went to Clash Royale.

On the morning of December 2, Los Angeles hosted The Game Awards ceremony, an analogue of the Oscar in the gaming industry. The game of the year was named Overwatch, the best mobile game of the year – Pokémon GO.

From January 1, Google Play pays value added tax (VAT) from payments in Russia. In this regard, prices for end users will increase.