By the end of the year, Russia will take 12th place in the world in terms of revenue from games, – follows from the publication of the company Newzoo, published recently.

Chinese mobile companies are beginning to play a dominant role in the Russian market of mobile applications and games.

Details of the development of a new mobile game about Smesharikov, analysis of one of the latest Rovio games, details of the marketing campaign Seriously and not only – in our traditional digest of central materials for the last working week.

The British company Marmalade, the author of the cross-platform SDK of the same name, has released two new sets of tools for creating 2D and 3D games. They are called Marmalade 2D Kit and 3D Kit.

It often happens that a team with a potentially strong project for mobile platforms has good metrics and prospects, but there is no money for traffic. There are several ways to get them – Aprenita told us more about one of them.

The other day, Wargaming announced the launch of Wargaming Academy, a free educational project designed to introduce students to the peculiarities of the gaming industry.

This Wednesday, as part of the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference, an award ceremony was held for the best projects of the Indie Game Cup competition.

Mobile device users spend 2-10 times more time on games than on other applications. This is told by the gamesindustry resource.biz with reference to a study by the analytical firm adjust.

The authors of the Dropbox file storage service presented a service that can help teams work together and discuss projects.

Recently, the studio Seriously shared the preliminary results of an advertising campaign with the participation of letsplayers. The event raised downloads to 250 thousand per day. CEO and co-founder of the studio Andrew Stalbow (Andrew Stalbow) spoke about the details of the campaign to the Medium resource. We offer you a translation.

The Unity Analytics service has received an update. There is a click map (heatmaps) and a beta version of Unity In App Purchase. A message about this appeared on the company’s blog.

Ubisoft announced the acquisition of the Canadian team Longtail Studios.

The creators of Angry Birds have released a new match-3 called Love Rocks starring Shakira. Instead of angry birds, the main character of the game was the performer Shakira.

Mobile game studio Pocket Playlab from Bangkok received $5 million investment. This is reported by the Tech in Asia resource with reference to information from the company.

In European The App Store has a game based on the Disney series “Duck Stories”. The title is called The Duckforce Rises.

Apps on Android in the 3rd quarter of 2015 are downloaded more often than on iOS. But Yabloko leads in revenue. This is reported by the resource 9to5mac with reference to the research of the analytical company App Annie.

Intel has announced the launch of a beta version of the Multi-OS Engine tool. With its help, developers will be able to create native mobile applications for iOS and Android in Java on Windows and/or OS X.

Users have downloaded Talking Tom series games 3 billion times. The information was shared by the author of the projects – the British studio Outfit7.

Last September, HeroCraft announced the mobile game “Smeshariki. The Legend of the Golden Dragon” based on the eponymous full-length cartoon. In connection with the announcement, we talked about the new project with both the developers and the owners of the rights to Smeshariki.