A little less than a month is left until the autumn White Nights Moscow 2015. As usual, two round tables will be held within the framework of the conference. Our contests are connected with them.

Yesterday, September 14, Halfbrick, which developed projects such as Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, was left without game designers. The company’s management does not intend to look for new ones.

Ron Gilbert, who worked on Maniac Mansion and the first two games of the Monkey Island series, recently started developing the adventure game Thimbleweed Park with the help of Kickstarter. In the blog of the project, he told how he plans the budget of the game.

“We are already working on transferring the Unity runtime and all games created on Unity to a new platform,” Mantas Puida, an iPhone team leader, said yesterday in the official blog of the engine.

The final game of the Braveland strategic series from the Kaliningrad studio Tortuga Team has appeared on the digital shelves of the App Store and Steam.

Judging by the latest commercial for the game of War, the American company Machine Zone has radically revised its approach to promoting its mobile blockbuster.

The company Electronic Arts is going to buy the studio CD Projekt RED, the creators of the game series “The Witcher”. Information about this was received by the editorial office of the DSOGaming resource from a person who introduced himself as an employee of the Polish studio.

Nintendo has appointed a new CEO and president of the company. They will be 65-year-old Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima). This is reported by the Kotaku resource with reference to the Nintendo press release.

The authors of the iOS application “Skazbuka” (PlayBC) – the GrommGame team – shared with App2Top.ru the results of a two-year study of the links between patterns in thinking and games, resulting in a new game theory.

The startup Futurefly, founded by Oskari Häkkinen, a native of Remedy Entertainment, has attracted $2.5 million in investments. With the money received, the Finnish team will create the “next generation of gaming messengers”.

At the end of August, it became known that in connection with the sanctions, Apple refused to pay money from software sales to those Russian developers whose accounts were issued in Sberbank. The other day the story was continued.

Artist Juan Hernandez (Juan Hernandez) told in an interview with the 80 level resource about the techniques he uses when creating 3D models. We publish a retelling.

Answers to questions: how Unity Ads increased the revenue of Best Fiends by 250%, and how to work with notifications correctly; as well as much, much more – in our traditional digest for the last working week.

The Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition version for the Apple TV set-top box will not only be a full-fledged analogue of the title of the same name for platforms such as PC, Playstation 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and One, but will also be distributed “in a box”.

We continue to publish materials in our “Who’s Who” series (recall, instead of posting game announcements from young and not only studios, we invite them to tell about themselves). This time we talked to the studio “For each other”, engaged in the development of games for children.

Soomla, the creator of the open source framework of the same name, has published a selection of resources with free 2D and 3D assets in its own blog for developers. And we share them with you.

Epic Games has made available for free download and use all the graphic and audio content of the never-released role-playing game Infinity Blade: Dungeons.

Having ended the first half of the year with a loss of €16.1 million, the French company Gameloft has launched a cost-cutting program. As part of the program, the company disbanded seven internal studios.

Last night it became known that the trial between the authors of Game of War and Kingdoms of Camelot was resolved.