How the changes improved Clash of Clans, why conversion rates for the game are secondary, why game artists love visual novels – all this is in our selection of the best materials from last week.

The other day Blizzard announced the introduction of new functionality in its card collectible game Hearthstone. The project has templates for composing game decks.

Apple has named the date of the iPhone SE presentation, Electronic Arts has made a KKI of Plants vs. Zombies, and Sony shamelessly hunts Lionhead Studios employees.

The Russian gaming TV channel Gamanoid has become a mobile publisher, releasing a simulator of naval battles Navy Field on Google Play. We talked with the general director of the TV channel Anna Sharonova about the project and why the media becomes a publisher.

A trial launch of the new Rovio game took place. The title is called Battle Bay and has nothing to do with the Angry Birds franchise.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Dodreams CEO Erik Pontiskoski. He talks about why and how they switched to a model of releasing minimalistic games.

The number of mobile users continues to grow, which naturally leads to an increase in the number of mobile players. By 2020, 213 million mobile gamers will appear in the United States. This opinion was voiced by the analytical company eMarketer based on the results of its own research.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is the report of Housemarque CEO Ilari Kuittinen. In his report, he shared the history of the industry for twenty years, and also spoke about the rules that his company adheres to.

Clones of the latest Supercell blockbuster have started to be released in China. At the moment, we know about at least three similar projects from developers from China.

The German company Wooga launches the studio Black Anvil Games. The division’s specialization will be midcore mobile games.

A parody eight-bit top-down shooter Retro City Rampage DX was released on MS-DOS and iOS.

The mobile market is oversaturated with gaming applications. And every day there are only more of them. The question is — how much more?

Chef Gordon Ramsay’s game will feature “branded” swearing and insults, a new Pokemon game is coming out, Nexon is buying the DomiNations developer, Big Huge Games studio.

The new Age of Empires game will see the light. At least, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates promised to “consider this possibility.”

Twitter has released a plugin for integrating Twitter Fabric services into Unity games. A message about this appeared on the platform’s blog.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is the report of Creative Mobile CEO Vladimir Funtikov. Among the topics discussed: why the development of free-to-play games sucks, how to make a soft launch, and so on.

Marmalade Technologies, the creator of the engine of the same name, has added tvOS support to the Marmalade Platform.

Panoptes is a single card collectible game about cyberpunk and demons from St. Petersburg Suricate Games. Dmitry Gavrilov, the producer of the game, told us about the studio and why to make KKI a premium project.

A little less than a week ago, the Australian team The Voxel Agents released a free-to-play game about steam locomotives. We tell you about it.