The new Supercell game continues to be one of the highest-grossing applications in the 9 regions where it was released, and its developments explain the features of monetization and share plans for the balance of the project.

App Annie analytical company summed up the results of last year by releasing (including in Russian) its retrospective report. Read about the most important thing in it in our material.

The Skillz service for esports competitions is becoming cross-platform. Users of Android devices will be able to compete with owners of iOS devices and receive prizes for it. Including money.

The sequel to the Dungelot series is about to be released on iOS, chef Gordon Ramsey together with one of the creators Doom will release a mobile game, and also – the Russian studio Big Way Games is raising funds for a “warm lamp platformer” via Kickstarter.

The author of the Dragon Quest franchise Yuji Horii shared with the readers of his Twitter account a disdok of the very first game in the series.

App2Top.ru and Nevosoft are raffling off a set of tickets to the White Nights Helsinki 2016 game development and promotion conference.

Step-by-step instructions for creating an advertising campaign for a mobile application with App2Top.ru shared by digital agency TopTraffic.

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru Group announced the launch of the information and research project “The gaming industry in Russia and the world“.

VGTRK has launched the Interactive Cartoon brand, under which it will produce children’s games based on its cartoon franchises. We talked with Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction, about the brand and the industry.

Rovio announced the exact release date of The Angry Birds Movie.

Microsoft will release a version of Minecraft for teaching schoolchildren. A game called Minecraft: Education Edition will be released this summer.

The authors of Angry Birds Epic open a studio in Finland, the Shanghai studio Spicy Horse launches a card buttler, and Unity convinces everyone to go to Global Game Jam 2016.

Kaliningrad studio HeroCraft has released the title “Lords of Discord” on iOS. The game appeared in the world stores after 15 months of softlonch.

Eric Seufert, Vice President of Acquisition and User Engagement at Rovio, told during the Pocket Gamer Connects London 2016 conference which trends will be the main ones in 2016.

The organizers of White Nights announced the results of the first round of voting for the Game Industry Awards and launched the second.

About how much it costs to work with the community and the press in South Korea, as well as about the popularity of discount coupons on IAP in his new article for App2Top.ru Yulia Nabieva told me.

A service is being launched to attract Pollen360 users. The creator of the service is the Pollen VC venture financing fund.

The Russian retro project Punch Club of the St. Petersburg studio Lazy Bear Games earned $ 1 million in less than two weeks, selling more than 100 thousand electronic copies.

During this week, the price tags in the Russian App Store will grow.