Some time ago, the i-Free group of companies announced in its results for last year that in 2014 its sales volume decreased by 48%, and net revenue by 29%. We asked Kirill Petrov, one of the founders of the group, how its problems affected the i-Free gaming business.

Congratulations to everyone on the start of the working week and we advise you to feel free to download new items from our selection – they are good: Stan Lee’s Hero Command and Clicker Age.

In Australia, a trial launch of an iOS game based on the Marvel universe took place. The title in the RPG genre from the Korean company NetMarble is called Marvel Future Fight.

Once a week, Apple selects the best game in the App Store. It becomes free for the next seven days. This time, Dark Echo, a horror puzzle game from the Canadian studio RAC7 Games, has been announced as such a game.

We bring to your attention a list of the most important April events dedicated to the gaming industry.

How much the Russian version of the mobile “Siberia” earned in a month, what books a game developer needs to read, how the Proto Raider platformer was developed – all this and much more in our traditional selection of the most popular materials of the previous week.

Mail.Ru Group together with ITIS KFU will train specialists in the field of game development.

The latest GDC brought at least two big surprises for game developers. Firstly, Unreal Engine 4 lost its subscription. Secondly, the monetization of Unity was seriously changed, which minimized the limitations in the free version.

Technology similar to the Wii, thanks to which it sold a huge circulation, can now be used in mobile devices.

In the selection for Friday, we have two completely different projects: hardcore 1942: Pacific Front and casual PatchMania.

Eighteen-year-old developer Chris Galzerano has created an application with which you can make mobile games in your own smartphone.

The financial year for Sega started well: the company announced that eight of its mobile projects earn more than $5 million monthly. This became known from the report that the company presented to its investors.

How to work with investors and your own IP is described in a new document by the British Banking Association.

Square Enix has announced that the console MMO game Final Fantasy XI will get a second life on mobile devices. The Japanese company will cooperate with the Nexon developer.

The other day, Maria Alegre, co-founder and CEO of the Chartboost advertising network, presented a printed version of her report with GDC “Seven questions that a developer should ask himself when monetizing a mobile game” on the company’s blog.

Recently, the Krasnoyarsk studio Puzzle Lab released a unique platformer Proto Raider, the graphics of which are completely based on the use of symbols. Yesterday, the game received a feature from Apple in the “Best New Games” category in more than 110 countries, including the UK, Sweden and Russia. We talked to the founder of the companyAndrey Fomin about the project.

Kim Kardashian will have to move: her sisters, along with Glu Mobile, are launching their own game.

Dan Rogers is a lawyer with twenty years of experience. He specializes in the gaming industry. In his blog, Rogers shared his thoughts on what legal difficulties can be expected for a developer who decides to launch his project using the Kickstarter service. We offer an abbreviated version of the text in Russian.

Today there are two very worthy projects in our selection. Meet: Mr. Jump and Stormblade.