The Finnish gaming industry has become one of the most attractive for investors among the Nordic countries. The Pocketgamer resource understands why.

Don Mattrick, CEO of Zynga since July 2013, is leaving the company. The founder of Zynga, Mark Pincus, returns to the post of CEO.

Does it make sense to sacrifice the visual quality of one aspect in favor of another in the graphic design of the game? The developers of the mobile Mortal Combat X answered this question positively, but what do you think?

The game Fantasy Life 2: Two Moons And The Village of God will be released exclusively on iOS and Android. The Level-5 studio announced this during its Vision 2015 press conference.

More than 10 million accounts of Russian users of Apple products may have been hacked by an attacker.

The Wear VR company has attracted investments of $1.5 million. With this money, she will develop a store of the same name for virtual reality games. The funds came from a group of American investors.

Mobile developers have spent more on TV advertising this year than console studios. About this with reference to the research of the iSpot resource.tv reports the online publication Venturebeat.

A conference dedicated to the development of mobile games has started today in the capital of Estonia. You can watch the broadcast of the event here.

Game of War: Fire Age earns $1 million a day. All this is thanks to an advertisement with the American actress and model Kate Upton.

The Haunted Empire that got into the collection today brought me back to the question of whether it would not be better to download the entire application to a mobile device during the initial installation?

Crytek has signed a licensing agreement with Amazon. Under the terms of the deal, the American retailer receives the rights to use the CryEngine engine. This is reported by the Kotaku resource with reference to sources close to the management of Amazon.

Gamevil company together with developer Kong Studios will release the game Dungeon Link. In promoting the game, the publisher uses pre-registration for content – a technique that is common in the Asian gaming market.

Chinese publisher Chukong together with Microsoft are holding a competition for mobile developers for the best game for Windows on the Cocos2d-x engine. The prize for the first place will be $ 25 thousand.

The American startup Netherfire adapts Asian games for a Western user.

Acquaintance with one game today led me to the question: is it possible to successfully “mislead” the target audience by offering her a non-standard (for the audience) product in a wrapper familiar to her? In other words, will the hardcore setting, for example, allow the corresponding users to put up with casual gameplay and vice versa? As for the selection, today we have Dead Shell and Juice Jam.

The Pollen venture fund offers mobile gaming startups money for the already existing revenue of the game, which developers have yet to receive from the store.

Yandex has prepared a study on the development of the Internet in the regions of Russia. The main idea is that the number of those who go online from a smartphone or tablet has grown significantly.

Ten of our best articles over the past week, from which you will learn why the profitability of shareware games is falling, how to find out that your project will earn a million, which new game Supercell has launched, and much more.

I’m afraid I’m repeating myself, but the question remains relevant for me: which flies faster – the working week or the weekend. And while you’re thinking, I suggest you look at a couple of decent strategy games. Meet: Crowntakers and Dominations.