The other day, the publisher of mobile and web projects Kongregate announced the launch of a new program – Launchpad X, aimed at those teams who are “not afraid to take risks.”

The Infinite Dream team presented a trailer for the game Sky Force Reloaded. The title will be an updated version of the Sky Force 2014 mobile shooter.

What is an honest free-to-play, why Blizzard radically updated Hearthstone, how currency stores are arranged in top games – we tell you about all this and much more in our Monday digest.

Kim Kardashian’s husband also moved into the gaming industry, and the FBI released a goat game to fight terrorism. Bonus video where developers talk about why there are so many successful mobile gaming companies in Finland.

King has published the financial results of 2015. The income of the authors of Candy Crush Saga is falling, the audience is decreasing. However, the company is still in a significant plus.

The creators of Twitch shared the results of 2015. It turned out that at any given time the video is viewed by an average of 550 thousand users.

There is an inverse relationship between the age of the player and the desire to play competitive games, – says the analytical company Quantic Foundry.

The PvP platformer King of Thieves from ZeptoLab will appear in the library of games of one of the most popular messengers in Russia – Viber.

The authors of Walking War Robots become publishers of mobile games.

Oculus Rift owners will be given a “try” of Unity Pro, Zynga is buying match-3 developer Yummy Gummy, as well as how to port an iOS game to Windows 10 in 5 minutes – we tell you in our daily digest.

Chukong Technologies, the authors of the Cocos2d-x engine, announced the launch of a new company. A studio called SDKBOX will develop the platform of the same name.

Sperasoft has shared its expansion plans. This year, the team of an international studio with Russian roots will increase by 100 people.

Publisher and developer of mobile and social games Zynga has published the financial results of 2015. It follows from the figures that an increasing part of the company’s revenue comes from mobile games.

At the end of last year, Supercell released one of the largest recent additions to the highest-grossing mobile game of 2015 – Clash of Clans. Despite the large number of innovations, the players met the update “with hostility”. What the Finnish company did “wrong”, – I understood App2Top.ru .

The Stugan initiative is bearing fruit, Rovio is launching a book publishing house, and Star Wars: Commander is gaining 1 million users in China in 4 days.

The volume of the mobile gaming market in 2015 reached $34 billion. App Annie experts came to such conclusions after studying the data for the past year.

The mobile analytics company DeltaDNA conducted a study to determine whether the ratings in the stores affect the performance of the game. And if so, how. We tell you what the experts managed to find out.

Publisher and developer Square Enix has released an updated Final Fantasy IX game on iOS and Android.

When developing or supporting a free-2-play game, the question often arises – how to properly design the premium currency purchase window and how to set up discounts. Representatives of the Playliner startup with the help of their service found and analyzed screenshots of banks (currency stores) with the purchase of premium currency of 150 of the highest-grossing mobile games in the USA.