The Finnish company Rovio, not long before the release of its film “Angry Birds in the cinema”, released a new game with original mechanics in the universe of the same name.

Against the background of the growing number of games from independent developers on Steam, the number of their sales is declining.

In mid-April, the head of Microsoft’s technology evangelism department in Russia, Andrey Ivashentsev, left his post and joined Game Insight. We talked with Andrey about why this happened and what he will do in his new place.

The Russian retail market of PC games decreased by almost half in 2015, as, indeed, the domestic console market.

Taiwanese mobile device manufacturer HTC is going to invest $100 million in its own business incubator for developers of virtual reality software.

The Fire Emblem turn-based role-playing strategy and Animal Crossing sim, which are among the central titles on Nintendo portable devices, will receive an official mobile incarnation.

Nexon and Square Enix are preparing to relaunch the cult MMO Final Fantasy XI on mobile platforms.

At the end of March, King Studio introduced its own free Defold engine. At the same time, it became known that the company hired Oleg Pridyuk as an evangelist. We asked him to tell us more about Defold – about the pitfalls, the features of the technology, and, most importantly, about why King has its own engine at all.

The pinball version of Angry Birds is coming out on Thursday, the organizers of IgroMir 2016 have named the date of the exhibition, and the next mobile game of Bethesda may be Starfield.

The Kamcord platform, specializing in mobile gaming streaming, received $10 million during the third investment round.

The Chinese Zhejiang Century Huatong Group, specializing in the manufacture of plastic seals for cars, is buying a mobile game development company CMGE for $ 1 billion.

The other day, Indigo Kids studio released an update to the mobile children’s game “Masha and the Bear: A Game for Children”. The release turned out to be a great reason for us to talk with Maxim Kochurin, project manager of the company, about the market of children’s applications.

Under the publishing brand My.com russian internet giant Mail.Ru The Group has released a trailer for the game Jungle Clash.

The Moscow studio Nekki, known for projects such as Vector and Shadow Fight 2, officially presented the game Shadow Fight 3, and also announced its release date.

Two of the four founders of id Software announced the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the development of the Blackroom shooter, which is planned to be created based on Unreal Engine 4.

The Qubicle Voxel Editor drawing tool appeared on Steam, with which games such as Crossy Road, Shooty Skies and Pac-Man 256 were created.

Gameloft is closing another office, Steam will start accepting payment in bitcoin, and the creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s is announcing either a spin-off, or another continuation of his horror.

The search giant has decided to take up the practice of awarding the best Android applications – Google Play Awards. The first ceremony will take place on May 19 as part of Google I/O.

The developers of Toca Boca children’s games were acquired by Spin Master, a manufacturer of physical toys from Canada.