Rovio has a football manager with updated birds, fans have come up with an engine to restart classic strategies like Command & Conquer and Red Alert, and – ta-dam! – Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is coming out.

Puzzle & Dragons, which earns about $1 billion every year, reached 10 million downloads four years after its release in North America.

The culture of machinima and streams gives birth to new unexpected formats of game video. One of them is the creation of a coherent film story from the game footage.

The developer of Candy Crush Saga has started negotiations with Activision and Blizzard. He wants to consider the possibility of the appearance and distribution of mobile titles based on their IP within his own extensive user base.

News in one line: Clash Royale cannibalizes Clash of Clans revenues; Epix Games are unhappy with Microsoft; King is preparing for the release of Bubble Witch Saga 3.

What percentage increase can Apple’s feature on the iPhone give, analysts at App Annie told in their latest research.

In connection with a humorous test of knowledge of the basics of game design, the Moscow studio ZeptoLab was accused of sexism.

The largest gaming company in the United States, which owns Activision, Blizzard and King, reported for the first three months of this year, which became a record for its total revenues.

Seriously messing with YouTube bloggers again, Zynga is on the mend, and PlayStation Mobile is releasing mobile Uncharted.

The most popular digital distribution service for PC games has made several important changes to the system of user reviews.

The Korean giant announced the expansion of its Made for Samsung program. Now it also applies to indie developers.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga are working on a fantasy-style role-playing game.

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.