The Fruit Ninja title from Halfbrick celebrates its fifth anniversary and the first billion downloads. The authors of the game told about this on the official website of the studio.

Square Enix has announced the release date of the company’s second game with the subtitle Go – Lara Croft Go.

Zynga has published financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2015. The company ended it on June 30 with a net loss of $27 million.

The number of mobile players in China in the first half of 2015 exceeded 366 million. Tech in Asia writes about this with reference to a study by the Chinese media corporation Sina Corp.

The LINE company, which owns the messenger of the same name, together with the Korean mobile game developer LongTu Korea will launch the Lantu Games game studio. The information appeared in LINE’s press release.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga announced the release of their first game in a non-standard genre for the company – the Paradise Bay time manager.

The Finnish team Seriously, the author of Best Fiends, will sign an advertising contract with the Premier League football club Norwich City (Premier League club Norwich City). This is reported on the official website of Norwich City.

The Pixel Art Academy campaign, a textbook on drawing pixel art in the form of an online adventure game, has been launched on Kickstarter.

ZeniMax Media has opened an office for id Software in Frankfurt (Germany), which will focus on the development of idTech for the company’s future projects.

Warner Bros. earned more than $500 million. for the second fiscal quarter of 2015 at the games.

The creator of the Broken Sword series, Revolution, celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Gamescom conference. The head of the studio, Charles Cecil, says: without Apple’s help, they would have closed long ago.

Disney, following the rest of the companies, sums up the financial results. Sales of the interactive branch of the corporation in the 3rd quarter of 2015 fell by $58 million compared to the previous reporting period.

Newzoo continues to regularly post reports on the most popular Android games in China. This time she has prepared a small report on the cash top for June. Let’s see which games a month ago spent the largest amount in China.

Summing up the results of the recently completed online competition among developers, its organizer – the company Snegoffon – highlighted a number of questions that every developer should ask himself before starting work – and shared them with App2Top.ru .

Glu reported on finances in the second quarter of 2015 and shared plans for the future. The company announced mobile projects with the participation of actor Jason Statham and singer Nicki Minaj.

The continuation of the sports hit from Vivid Games will be released three years after the release of the original game.

Activision has published the results of the 2nd fiscal quarter of 2015. The company’s profit amounted to $759 million (non-GAAP), of which $611 million came from digital sales.

Compass Point West earns $0.06 per day from each user on advertising,” said Next Games lead producer Mitchell Smallman at GDC Europe 2015.

The Finnish team Seriously, the creator of the game Best Fiends, raised $ 18 million during the investment round A. The company shared information about this on its website.