As part of the Apple presentation – Apple iPhone 7 Keynote – it became known that the Super Mario brand will appear on iOS devices.

Odnoklassniki is going to pay developers only 10% of the Bonus Shackles spent by network users in games.

Wargaming and Sony have announced a collaboration. In the game World of Tanks Blitz, tanks from Valkyria Chronicles will appear.

Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell, told Games Industry in an interview what the corporate culture in the Finnish studio looks like. The main points: working in a company is not sugar, but no one is afraid to make mistakes.

Due to Apple’s new guidelines, at least 27% of applications will have to be renamed. This is reported by the analytical company Sensor Tower.

This Monday, 3.5% of Ubisoft shares became the property of Guillemot Brothers SE. The company belongs to the family of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. The purpose of the purchase is to protect against a hostile takeover by the Vivendi conglomerate.

Virtual reality headsets have almost ceased to be sold. This is reported in a study conducted by Valve Corporation.

The fritupley hidden “Mysterious House” was installed more than 50 million times. In honor of this event App2Top.ru I talked with Maxim Donskikh, president of Game Insight, about the history of the game and its genre.

Former Bungie employees have raised $3.5 million to finance their own VR studio.

Sony is planning an active offensive on the mobile games market. Going to do projects with AR. This was stated in an interview with the Financial Times resource Kaz Hirai, CEO of the company.

Eric Seufert, former vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio and partner at the consulting agency Heracles Media, spoke about how a place in the top downloads affects the cash register of the application.

How to understand that the game turned out to be successful, what is a meta-game, why do the necessary daily tasks? The answers to these and other questions are in our selection of the main materials of the week.

A new iteration of the Unreal Engine has appeared. In version 4.13 – “hundreds of new updates”.

Disney is closing another project on the Marvel universe. This is Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2.

Its author, Alexander Simakhin, shared about all stages of the development of the minimalistic Slash Arena MMO in his blog. An expanded version of the material can now be read here.

Mobile apps for iOS that have not been updated for a long time, as well as those whose names are too long, will be removed from the App Store.

The developer of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale – the Finnish company Supercell – canceled an upcoming event for fans of their games.

What daily tasks are needed for and how to fit them into the game correctly, – said Alexander Collins, senior engineer at Mobile Games Company. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

The German publisher and developer of mobile games Wooga announced a 10% reduction in staff. The company decided to stop creating midcore projects and focus on a casual audience.