Sweden is a leading European country in the field of game development. Such conclusions were made by representatives of the GDC game developers conference based on their own research.

In the fall, the Instagram-based advertising platform will open to all advertisers. This is reported by the head of the marketing operations department of the company Jim Squires (Jim Squires) in an interview with eMarketer.

Studio SGN from Los Angeles, the developer of games such as Cookie Jam, Panda Pop and Panda Jam, received $ 130 million from the Korean company Netmarble Games for development.

GREE International is forced to reduce its staff by 30%. This is written by the Venturebeat resource with reference to information from the director of the production company Andrew Sheppard (Andrew Sheppard).

I don’t like the latest XCOM. Yes, yes, I’m talking about the one that Firaxis released a couple of years ago, and whose success led not even to a revival, but to a full-fledged Golden Age of turn-based tactical games.

The creator of Oculus VR virtual reality helmets has bought the Israeli company Pebbles Interfaces, which develops “computer vision” technologies.

It took £55,000 and 3.5 years of life to create one of the most visually interesting mobile games of last year, the adventure game Tengami,” said Jennifer Schneidereit, one of the creators of the game, as part of Develop: Brighton 2015.

Spending of Russian residents on Internet content is growing. At the same time, the demand for IAP in games has fallen. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to a study by the analytical company Synovate Comcon.

The Skolkovo Foundation told App2Top.ru , which will give a grant of 5 million rubles to the winner in the nomination “Technologies and tools for creating games” within the framework of the upcoming investment competition/forum Web&Tech Ready 2015.

About Agar.io I didn’t find out from the press. The link to the then only browser game was thrown to me by a programmer working on the floor above. “Write about her,” he offered me with emphasis. “Not the format,” I said and forgot about the project.

Release of the free version of Threes! not only allowed developers to earn money from advertising, but also increased revenue from the paid version of the game.

The first generation of Apple electronic watches will be available in Russia “in white” on the last day of this month. But it won’t affect the earnings of Apple Watch game developers.

RockYou has acquired two card applications from the developer MavenHut. The amount of the transaction is not called.

The British startup SuperAwesome has raised $7 million to develop a mobile advertising platform for children’s apps.

We continue to post video reports from White Nights 2015. Next up is a speech by John Gargiulo, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at BlueStacks. At the conference, he talked about what made the acquisition of users using TV so popular in Japan, South Korea, the United States and beyond.

We continue to post videos of reports from White Nights 2015. Next up is a speech by Grigory Leshchenko, Senior Project Manager of the Skolkovo Foundation. He spoke about the advantages and benefits provided by the fund.

Zynga is still afloat and manages to create good games. That’s just whether it will bring the company the desired growth of stocks on the stock market is a big question.

Last week we had a lot of interesting texts. Starting from experts’ forecasts on whether the new price tags will change the Russian App Store market, and ending with a story about what investments are. If you missed it, welcome to our traditional digest.

Is it difficult to get a license to develop a mobile game, and how ethical is the presence of IAP in children’s games – we talked about this and not only with Apps Ministry.