One of the structural divisions of the Higher School of Economics has been recruiting students for the second time for a professional retraining program in the direction of “game development”. We asked the producer of the program Vyacheslav Utochkin about this initiative.

Epic Games has released an extensive update to the fourth version of the Unreal Engine. Some of the important innovations of the engine relate to mobile.

Finnish game studio Everywear announced the closing of the seed round of investments. The developer of projects for smart watches managed to attract $2.25 million (€2 million).

The fourth generation of Apple TV, which Apple is going to present as part of the upcoming event scheduled for September 9, was created with an eye to gaming.

Analyst Trevor McCalmont wrote an article about what common mistakes in user acquisition should be avoided. We share the translation.

The Supernauts game from the Finnish Grand Cru team will be removed from the App Store on September 1. By the end of 2015, it will be disconnected from the servers. This is reported by the resource Pocketgamer.biz with a link to information from the studio.

Frogmind Games has approached the issue of retention retention in an interesting way. The studio plans to release a map editor for its Badland arcade.

From January to June inclusive, the volume of China’s gaming market amounted to $9.8 billion,” said San Shoushan (孙寿山), a representative of the State Administration for Radio, Cinematography, Television, Press and Publications of the People’s Republic of China.

About $10 million has been invested in one of Twitch’s central competitors in the mobile gaming streaming market.

Apple on Saturday removed the Japanese hit Monster Strike from the App Store. On Sunday, the game was returned to the store.

The PAC-MAN 256 title has been downloaded 5 million times in a week since its release. A message about this appeared on the Twitter of the game developers, Hipster Whale company.

The foliage is already turning yellow outside the window, although the calendar still shows summer. We hope that you, unlike us, still noticed him. But enough about the weather, here is our list of the main materials App2Top.ru for the last working week of the summer.

Apple has suspended money transfers to those Russian companies whose payment details indicate Sberbank.

The authors of Blood Brothers presented the Mirrativ platform, with which mobile device users will be able to stream everything that happens on their screen.

The Pako – Car Chase Simulator game from the Finnish team Tree Men Games has been downloaded 2 million times a year since its release.

On September 17, Moscow will host the Mobile Marketing Conference, an event that, as you might guess, is dedicated to mobile marketing. Our friends from Apptractor acted as organizers of the event. In connection with the announcement, we decided to talk to the editor-in-chief of the site, Leonid Bogolyubov, about how they came up with the idea of the conference.

New details have emerged in the litigation between Machine Zone and Kabam. The scandal at the cocktail party, associated with the name of supermodel Kate Upton, develops into an investment story.

The service was launched last week ChartLight, which allows, as we wrote earlier, to show the frequency and duration of user sessions in third-party Google Play applications. In connection with the announcement, we decided to talk a little with its authors about the service itself and its competitors.

Amazon is willing to pay $0.002 to developers for a minute spent by each user in the game.