Fuel company announced the launch of the Fuel Ignite engine. The technology will help simplify the management of gaming promotions and events.

The company behind Candy Crush Saga is preparing a midcore project for release.

A living legend of the gaming industry, John Van Caneghem, thanks to whom such brands as King’s Bounty, Might & Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic were born, also decided to try his hand at the mobile games market.

Marmalade Technologie, the creators of the Marmalade cross-platform engine, received investments in the amount of $ 5 million.

Chinese users are less likely to convert into paying players, but also spend longer gaming sessions. The analytical company GameAnalytics came to such conclusions based on the results of comparing Chinese and all other players.

The authors of Punch Club – the Lazy Bear Games team – told App2Top.ru about the development of the game and their future plans.

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.