The Finnish Boomlagoon team, which includes the authors of the original Angry Birds, is preparing to release another game – a mobile RPG with elements of a collectible card game. The project is called Spirit Hunter.

The authors of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Deer Hunter decided to strengthen their team by inviting Greg Brandeau, who previously served as vice president at Pixar and chief technical officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, to the board of directors.

Chinese company Shanda Games launches Eyedentity Mobile game studio in Berlin and invests $30 million in it.

We continue to publish materials in our “Who’s Who” series (recall, instead of posting game announcements from young and not only studios, we invite them to tell about themselves). This time we talked to Kharkiv Heart beat Games.

Apple has a Twitter account that will be dedicated to games from the App Store. It will be led by the editors of the store.

App Annie analytics company has shared a list of the most popular and profitable mobile games “of all time” on iOS. Each of the projects is at least two years old.

Next up is a new category: faces of the industry. In it, we do not so much talk to the teams, as we ask the specialists to tell us a little about themselves and about the specifics of their work. The first article is dedicated to Artem Myasnikov, art director of the St. Petersburg office Mail.ru Group.

Former Epic Games game designer Cliff Bleszinski told Destructoid in an interview why he left the gaming industry in 2012.

Undead Labs studio will close the Moonrise game before the official release. The developers promise to please the audience at last and release a series of updates.

Gameloft UX designer Om Tandon in his blog on Linkedin talked about how King stimulates booster sales. With the permission of the Oma, we publish a Russian translation of the article.

King, the author of the Candy Crush series, has a new HR director. His name is Mark Taylor, and before the gaming company, he worked for the Burberry fashion house.

The Pokémon Shuffle title appeared in Western stores a week after its release on the Japanese market.

A brief history of the GO series and how the development of Hitman GO and Lara Croft GO went the other day, Venture Beat was told by one of the authors of the games.

By the end of this year, the mobile games market in China will reach $5.5 billion and outgrow the US gaming market. These forecasts were shared by the analytical firm Niko Partners, which specializes in the Asian region.

Discounts on bundles in shareware games give the user the opportunity to buy hard currency at a more attractive price. Isaac Roseboom from DeltaDNA analyzed the effectiveness of this strategy in an article for the company’s blog.

What types of marketing companies are there that help promote marketing applications, how they differ from each other, and which of them and what questions should be addressed, – Nadezhda Matukhno from ComboApp told us in her material.

Glu CEO Niccolo de Masi spoke about the behavior of paying players in two flagship titles of the company – Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Deer Hunter.

The organizer of the White Nights conference, Nevosoft, shared a preliminary list of speakers for its Moscow session. One of the speakers will be Barry Meade, co-founder of the studio Fireproof Games, responsible for the series The Room.

The analytical firm Newzoo found out that 46% of paying users among those playing in a social casino. The company told about this in a study that it shared with Gamesindustry.biz .