The organizers of the Russian-language GameDevParty game jam announced the dates of its holding.

Activision has released a shareware game based on the English TV series “Downton Abbey”.

It became known that the game The Witness from the author of Braid Jonathan Blow (Jonathan Blow) will also appear on tablets.

The largest American electronic store has announced the second generation of the Fire TV set-top box, as well as its gaming version, complete with a gamepad.

We continue our heading “Faces of the industry”, in which we introduce industry specialists (so far only with artists, but we will definitely get to game designers). This time Valeria Bulatchik, an artist from 101XP, who drew a game in the three-in-a-row “Expedition” genre, told us about herself.

Owners of Android devices will soon have the opportunity to stream game videos directly from a smartphone or tablet. This was announced by the head of the new YouTube Gaming service Ryan Wyatt at the Tokyo Game Show 2015.

On Wednesday, September 16, Apple released the ninth version of the OS for mobile devices. The VentureBeat resource figured out exactly what iOS 9 is interesting to game developers.

The English studio Pixel Hero Games has released a trailer for its mobile game, created based on the book cycle by Dan Abnett (Dan Abnett) “Eisenhorn”. The game looks very good on video.

The game in the genre of three-in-a-row Frozen Free Fall (known in Russia as “Cold Heart: Starfall”) overcame the mark of 100 million downloads, – announced today, September 17, the Russian office of Disney, and at the same time shared an infographic dedicated to this event.

Apple has changed the rules for Apple TV developers. Now any game under tvOS must support the remote control, which is equipped with “Apple” set-top boxes.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga are launching a new game in the “three-in-a-row” genre. The title is called Scrubby Dubby Saga. At the moment, the game is in softlonch.

Today, on September 16, the ninth version of the operating system for Apple smartphones and tablets became available for download to mobile devices.

The organizer of White Nights Moscow 2015, Nevosoft company, has published the full program of the event. Among the key speakers are Zeptolab, Fireproof Studios, Gamevil, GREE, Facebook, Miniclip, Goodgame Studios and many others.

Zynga has bought the Rising Tide Games game studio, co-founded by Maytal Olsha. In the past, she served as the head of the social slots department at Zynga.

Today, September 16, the author of the series Five Nights at Freddy’s Scott Cowton (Scott Cowton) said that the fifth part of the popular horror game Five Nights at Freddy’s will not be. Instead, he will make a role-playing game based on her motives.

Who should I ask to promote the game if I have money and a good product,” Nadezhda Matukhno from ComboApp told our publication.

The games of the Swedish studio Toca Boca, which specializes in mobile applications for children, have been downloaded a total of 100 million times. In honor of this event, the company shared an infographic.

American celebrity Kim Kardashian (Kim Kardashian) announced the possibility of a sequel to Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, as well as the appearance of a game with her and Kanye West (Kanye West).

Chuck Doud, the head of the music department of the American branch of Sony Computer Entertainment, advises developers to think about the soundtrack at the earliest stages of development.