The pinball version of Angry Birds is coming out on Thursday, the organizers of IgroMir 2016 have named the date of the exhibition, and the next mobile game of Bethesda may be Starfield.

The Kamcord platform, specializing in mobile gaming streaming, received $10 million during the third investment round.

The Chinese Zhejiang Century Huatong Group, specializing in the manufacture of plastic seals for cars, is buying a mobile game development company CMGE for $ 1 billion.

The other day, Indigo Kids studio released an update to the mobile children’s game “Masha and the Bear: A Game for Children”. The release turned out to be a great reason for us to talk with Maxim Kochurin, project manager of the company, about the market of children’s applications.

Under the publishing brand My.com russian internet giant Mail.Ru The Group has released a trailer for the game Jungle Clash.

The Moscow studio Nekki, known for projects such as Vector and Shadow Fight 2, officially presented the game Shadow Fight 3, and also announced its release date.

Two of the four founders of id Software announced the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the development of the Blackroom shooter, which is planned to be created based on Unreal Engine 4.

The Qubicle Voxel Editor drawing tool appeared on Steam, with which games such as Crossy Road, Shooty Skies and Pac-Man 256 were created.

Gameloft is closing another office, Steam will start accepting payment in bitcoin, and the creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s is announcing either a spin-off, or another continuation of his horror.

The search giant has decided to take up the practice of awarding the best Android applications – Google Play Awards. The first ceremony will take place on May 19 as part of Google I/O.

The developers of Toca Boca children’s games were acquired by Spin Master, a manufacturer of physical toys from Canada.

Vladimir Funtikov, CEO of Creative Mobile, told us at the GameDev Days 2016 conference about how Creative Mobile works, how much customization of cars brings to Nitro Nation Online and why Clash Royale is not the best game in the world.

A new kind of monetization, Rovio’s thoughts on UA, 1500 contacts of game streamers, the history of the launch of Shadow Fight 2 in China – this and much more in our digest for the past week.

The volume of the gaming segment in mobile will reach $36.9 billion by the end of this year. The forecasts were shared by the analytical company Newzoo.

How Nekki managed to release Shadow Fight 2 in the app store of such popular messengers as WeChat and MobileQQ, – App2Top.ru the project manager of the company Sergey Sorokin told.

Spending on video advertising on Facebook increased by 122% year-on-year, the Monster Hunter Explore softlonch took place in Canada, and Snail Games released the Russian version of the MMORPG about kung fu.

Prices for advertising inventory in Android apps have increased by 147% over the year. The cost of advertising on iOS is growing much slower.

Seven veterans of the gaming industry have launched a new mobile game development studio Armada Interactive in Helsinki and have already managed to attract $3 million in investments.

The company Gumi, which fired the Brave Frontier buttler a couple of years ago, announced the closure of the Canadian studio, created less than two years ago, as well as the termination of operations in a number of regions.