Glu Mobile failed to improve financial performance: the game with the next socialites “did not shoot.” The company fires employees to get out of the minus.

Which platforms should games be developed for, as well as which genre, setting and monetization to choose for a future hit, were discussed at a round table at the Higher School of Business Informatics by representatives of the Russian gaming industry.

Epic Games has entered into a partnership agreement with GameAnalytics. The company’s free analytical service is integrated into the Unreal Engine.

Paying players prefer not to make very large payments at a time.

China is one of the three largest mobile game markets in the world. The companies of China are among the largest gaming investors. Projects of Chinese developers are increasingly at the very top of Western box office tops. Newzoo recently told about how the Chinese market looks in numbers from the inside in a joint study with TalkingData. We offer a brief summary of it in Russian.

Why it is not necessary to make games for everyone, what is the difference between the children’s games market and the usual gaming market, how the Russian PC and console market has changed in 2015 – read about this and much more in our traditional digest of the beginning of the week.

Sergey Galenkin in his blog on Medium told why you should not focus on the “typical” gamer when developing. We offer the Russian version of the material.

On June 4, the Mobius 2016 conference dedicated to the technical aspects of mobile application development will be held in St. Petersburg.

Notes about the content of advertising in programs and games began to appear in the Google Play mobile app store.

In the first three months of 2016, the total downloads of games made on Unity reached 4.2 billion.

Supercell blockbusters individually earn more per month than the digital console version of Tom Clancy’s The Division.

Samsung predicts that mobile devices will overtake the PS4 in terms of technical characteristics. This will happen by 2020. The company shared the information at its own Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco.

The Finnish company Rovio, not long before the release of its film “Angry Birds in the cinema”, released a new game with original mechanics in the universe of the same name.

Against the background of the growing number of games from independent developers on Steam, the number of their sales is declining.

In mid-April, the head of Microsoft’s technology evangelism department in Russia, Andrey Ivashentsev, left his post and joined Game Insight. We talked with Andrey about why this happened and what he will do in his new place.

The Russian retail market of PC games decreased by almost half in 2015, as, indeed, the domestic console market.

Taiwanese mobile device manufacturer HTC is going to invest $100 million in its own business incubator for developers of virtual reality software.

The Fire Emblem turn-based role-playing strategy and Animal Crossing sim, which are among the central titles on Nintendo portable devices, will receive an official mobile incarnation.

Nexon and Square Enix are preparing to relaunch the cult MMO Final Fantasy XI on mobile platforms.