Glu’s revenue has fallen (although profits have grown), Merged! scored 1 million downloads in a week, and one of the creators of Adventure Times released a mobile game.

The mobile games market in China will reach $11.1 billion by 2019. This forecast was given by analysts of Niko Partners.

Gameloft game designer Toni Sala told Gamasutra about the beauty of the action midcore role-playing game Heroes Charge by Chinese-American developer uCool, which is being cloned no less actively than Clash of Clans today.

Glu company together with singer Taylor Swift is preparing to launch a mobile game.

The Israeli company SOOMLA has listed the main mobile analytical platforms in a blog. We have selected a dozen of the most, in our opinion, useful from this list. We share.

Vyacheslav Utochkin, who is responsible for educational programs in the gaming industry at the Higher School of Economics, said App2Top.ru about an open lecture “How to create your own game“, about a new set for the program “Management of Internet gaming projects”, as well as about new disciplines and courses.

The Piano Tiles 2 music game became the most downloaded, NEXON’s HIT hit the box office top immediately after launch, and the Star Wars game rose on the wave of the success of the franchise film. App Annie, an analytical company, told about all these events in a monthly report.

Last Monday, February 1, Vladimir Putin instructed the departments to write a law on equal working conditions on the Russian Internet. It is quite possible that we are talking about a return VAT for software developers. For more information about the law and the order, see our detailed material.

Over the past year, esports players have earned a total of $ 350 thousand at Vainglory tournaments. Information about this was shared by the creators of the game – the Super Evil Megacorp studio.

A couple of weeks ago My.com announced a new game Juggernaut Wars. We talked about the game with the project manager Stanislav Antokhi.

For a year, a game developer receives an average of $36.9 thousand or £33.8 thousand (at the exchange rate as of February 2, 2016). This was reported by the resource Develop Online after a large-scale survey.

Dmitry Mitrofanov from Red Winter told us about the new Dungelot, the dangers of App Annie and SteamSpy, as well as what it takes to be a successful indie.

The Playliner mobile game functionality analytics system shared with App2top.ru his vision of what mechanics unite the most cash-successful games.

Google’s AdWords app has appeared in the App Store.

After the close of trading on Thursday, the value of Electronic Arts shares fell by 7%. This happened because forecasts for the fourth fiscal quarter were lower than expected.

Newzoo forms a tandem with DeltaDNA, Team17 will publish a 16-year-old teenager’s game, and EA leaves E3 and opens its own exhibition (there could have been a joke about blackjack, but we resisted!).

The French company Gameloft continues restructuring. A studio in New Zealand got “under the knife”.

One of the creators of Doom, John Romero, promised fans “a shooter that no one has ever seen before.” This became known from an interview that the veteran gamedev gave to the Develop Online resource.

The Punch Club street fighter simulator has become available not only on iOS and Steam, but also on Android.