Peter Vesterbacka, who has represented and promoted Rovio and its leading projects for six years, is leaving the company.

Vishal Gondal, one of the creators of the Indian studio Indiagames, is launching a fund to finance local teams. Preference will be given to studios whose projects are in the early stages of development.

The authors of the Shadow Fight and Vector series have announced their plans to launch an internship program for those who want to develop game programs.

The participants of the transaction officially confirmed the beginning of the process of acquiring Tencent shares of the authors of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale from the Japanese company SoftBank.

It takes 10 minutes and a graphic editor to determine whether the user interface solves the tasks assigned to it,” product designer Theresa Chien is sure.

The last two film adaptations of game universes have separately collected more than $300 million at the global box office.

Vivendi has taken over 20.1% of Ubisoft shares. However, he still denies the possibility of a hostile takeover. At least for the next six months.

The Chinese media giant Tencent and its partners have agreed with the Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank to purchase a controlling stake in the Finnish studio Supercell.

A “three-in-a-row” Mighty Match about a chicken warrior will be released on iOS. The title is notable for being declared as “truly free”, without IAP.

The Asian hit of Disney and LINE has reached another round mark in downloads. One of the highest-grossing games of 2015 has 60 million installations.

Alawar told App2Top how the indicators of advertising monetization have changed after the start of cooperation with Appodeal, a service for the competent monetization of mobile applications.

The titles of the Swedish studio MAG Interactive, the creator of the word puzzle Ruzzle, have accumulated a total of 100 million downloads. In honor of the event, users will be made millionaires. However, only in the game.

How the “Google tax” will affect the Russian market, what to expect from Search Ads, why the authors of Tap the Frog are closing the studio – we tell you in our selection of the main materials of the week.

During the upcoming conference about the gaming business White Nights St.Petersburg 2016, a round table on virtual and augmented reality will be held. For the best questions to him App2Top.ru will give you two premium tickets.

In two years since the release of the Russian action-MMO about walking robots from the Moscow Pixonic team has gained more than 15 million installations.

The resource of Tilting Point studied 500 shareware games and calculated how much developers “pay” players for information from a Facebook account. The average figure is $1.29.

The WakeApp marketing company wrote for App2Top.ru a column in which she told how very soon the search suggestions will change the ASO promotion in the App Store.

Game Bait! For Gear VR from the Swedish developer, Resolution Games has gained 500 thousand downloads in 3 months.

Unity has met the developers halfway: in Unity Plus, the loading screen has become changeable. In addition, the budget limit has increased.