The Flexion Mobile application distribution and monetization service has acquired more than 20 million users over the year of its existence, the resource reports Pocketgamer.biz .

About working with the community within the framework of game services; problems of Midnight Star; cliches in games – and much more in our digest of the main materials for the past week.

Marvel Entertainment together with DeNA will release a mobile cooperative action game for four players called Marvel Mighty Heroes. This is reported in the official press release of DeNa.

Game developers and founders of the independent game studio MochiBits Kyle Yamamoto (Kyle Yamamoto) and Howard Go (Howard Go) shared with readers of their blog the story of the creation of the game ORBB – and their thoughts on why it did not become a hit. We have translated this text and are publishing it with the permission of the authors.

Greg Zeschuk, co-founder of BioWare, has returned to the gaming industry as one of the leaders of the Canadian startup Biba Ventures. The company develops augmented reality mobile gaming applications for children’s playgrounds.

The end of the working week, and we have three opinions about three games. This time it was not without criticism.

The Japanese gaming company Aiming is preparing to launch an IPO.

Mobile analytics company Upsight has launched the Upsight Marketing marketing platform.

Adam Saltsman, who essentially invented the runner genre, is preparing a new game for release – the turn-based tactics of Overland.

The number of downloads of Line: Disney Tsum Tsum worldwide has exceeded 40 million. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource.

One of the main iOS features of last year – the adventure game Oceanborn – will soon be among the projects ported from mobile to PC.

The mobile version of the App Store has a new selection “Editors’ Choice – the main releases of the week”.

Rovio, together with the Chinese mobile game developer Kunlun, will release the Angry Birds series specifically for the Asian market.

Narrative designer and screenwriter of Signus Labs studio Alina Brazdeikene spoke at Winter Nights 2015 about the types of cliches and ways to deal with them. We are publishing a printed version of the report.

Today, two games got into our networks: one about sweets, and the other about zombies.

The creators of the Unreal Engine game engine launched an investment initiative – Unreal Dev Grants. This is, in fact, a foundation for developers. The total volume of the fund is $5 million.

Sega Corporation bought the independent studio Demiurge Studios, creators of the mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest. The amount of the transaction is not called.