Why DeNa is firing Canadian employees, how much money should be put into the game budget for analytics, why is Pinkapp going to finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu? The answers to these and other questions are in our traditional digest of the beginning of the week.

The light did not converge on Unity, Unreal Engine or CryEngine, our colleagues from the Techcrunch resource are convinced. They have prepared a list of a dozen alternatives to popular engines. We share.

Eric Seufert, the new vice president of the acquisition and user engagement department at Rovio, told us what the minimum budget should be for analytics, and why mobile stores are “only for winners”.

Last week, Game Insight announced the open development of the PC project Starborn Wanderers Universe, a client MMO developed on the basis of the mobile Starborn Wanderers. We asked GI about the project.

The International Games Week starts next week in Berlin. 12 major events will be held within its framework. Apps World Germany 2015 is one of them.

A gaming startup from India, 99Games, received money for development from the local venture fund Kalaari Capital.

The mobile games market in India is expecting an “explosive” development. So says Manish Agarwal, CEO of Reliance Games studio.

Last week it became known that Pinkapp will finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu. We talked to the CEO of the studio about why Pinkapp went to this.

The QuizUp mobile quiz from the Icelandic developer Plain Vanilla has been translated into Chinese. She conquers the local market under the name WeQuiz.

On April 18, 2015 at 6.00 am, the GameDevParty gamejam starts #2. It will last a week. The sponsors will be DevGAMM, WN conf and Scirra. GameDevParty accepts for participation in the contest and works made for Ludumdare 32.

The Antimonopoly Committee of the European Union has charged Google with violating antitrust laws. This was stated by the head of the committee, Margaret Vestager, during a press conference dedicated to the event.

Perhaps a game based on Kingdom Hearts from Square Enix will appear on mobile devices. This is reported by the Toucharcade resource with reference to an interview with one of the creators of the franchise.

Is Facebook becoming less effective as an advertising platform for games? In an attempt to find an answer to this question, the Pocketgamer resource.biz analyzes the research of the Nanigans marketing company.

Google has introduced a new program called Designed for Families. With its help, developers will be able to promote “family-friendly” games and applications.

Nesvit Bogdan, COO of Crystal Clear Soft, shared with App2Top.ru with his material about the essence of chaos management within the management of a gaming company.

The Watch Quest game is getting ready for release! for Apple Watch. The author was the WayForward Technologies studio, which has platformers Shantae, Mighty Switch Force and DuckTales Remastered in its portfolio.

The other day, ZeptoLab held a sports programming championship together with the Codeforces resource. Viktor Korsun, head of the Client development department at the company, shared the details with us.

For a long time, fans of the Blizzard collectible card game were deprived of the opportunity to play their favorite game on smartphones. Today their waiting came to an end. Now the Hearthstone game can be played on the iPhone.

Today in our selection of games – Running Strike and Under Heroes.