The independent Stoic Games team, which owns the authorship of The Banner Saga game, is ready to share its own game engine with indie developers. This was told by the technical director of the studio John Watson (John Watson) in an interview with the resource Develop Online.

Richard Morgan, the screenwriter of Crysis 2 and Syndicate, will release an interactive book for mobile devices called Land Fit For Heroes. The game has a multiplayer mode.

The cost of purchases in the App Store in Australia, Sweden and Indonesia will increase. This is reported by the 9to5Mac resource with reference to notifications that Apple sent to developers.

Denis Konovalov, founder of Joyful Software studio, which develops mobile games in the three-in-a-row genre, shared with us his thoughts about Nibblers, one of the latest Rovio games.

Apple is negotiating with Russian online cinemas and video services. The subject of discussion is the creation of applications for Apple TV. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to its own sources.

Rapper Kanye West (Kanye West) condemned the producers of shareware projects in his own Twitter account. The husband of the shareware game star Kim Kardashian: Hollywood believes that there should be no IAP in children’s mobile games.

Zynga has announced the appearance of advertising in its own projects in the form of mini-games. A message about this appeared on the official website of the company.

A shareware quiz from Ellen DeGeneres, a comedic actress and TV show host, appeared in the stores. A game called Psych! Outwit Your Friends is DeGeneres’ second title. The first was the paid Heads Up.

On the last day before the official start of White Nights Moscow 2015, we publish a code giving a 90% discount on a ticket for indie developers.

A checklist about the promotion, a story about the passage of Greenlight, a case about the fight against Chinese gaming pirates and not only – in our traditional weekly selection of the best materials of the past working week.

The non-standard advertising campaign of Best Fiends with the participation of 13 letsplayers allowed the game to achieve very good results both in money and in downloads.

The game of the Boston studio Oniix was copied by Chinese clone makers. The team shared their experience of dealing with them. We offer you a translation.

About the average age of the Russian mobile gamer, the share of role-playing game fans among women and local traffic prices on myTarget and Facebook, – App2Top.ru told the marketing company DataLead.

Yesterday, October 8, Unity announced in its official blog that it had begun the process of suspending the development and support of the Unity Web Player plugin.

The story of apps purchased/downloaded by users, but no longer supported by developers, disappearing from the purchase history continues.

Today at midnight in Russia, the latest line of iPhone devices officially introduced by Apple exactly a month ago – on September 9 – went on sale.

The authors of Angry Birds are preparing a new puzzle. They promise that there will be no birds in it. Instead, the main character of the game will be the popular singer Shakira.

In five years, the mobile games market will earn a third of all the money the gaming industry receives from digital sales.

As part of our “Who’s Who” column, we talked with game designer Nikita Filatov about the Cloud Castle team and their first game project – the nonlinear adventure game Die With Glory.