Mark Skaggs, under whose leadership FarmVille and Empires & Allies were created, is leaving Zynga after 7 years of working for the company. Information about this appeared on the VentureBeat resource.

In two weeks since the release of the new OS, more than half of iPhone users have downloaded it to their devices. At the same time, there are more paying players among them than non-paying ones. This is reported by VentureBeat resource with reference to information from the analytical company DeltaDNA.

The authors of Shadow Fight 2 have officially announced the development of an 11×11 football manager for mobile platforms. The game will be a remaster of the eponymous project of the Moscow studio for browsers and social networks.

The culture of portable gaming is unhealthy because of the huge popularity of mobile games,” said Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios.

From now on, Android users receive a warning about the large size of the application only if the APK file weighs more than 100 MB.

French artist and game designer Nathan Lovato told us exactly how to improve the graphics of the game. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

In connection with the big in-game event in the mobile strategy “Star Wars: Invasion“, we asked the Russian office of Disney about how and why they hold promotions in their games.

App Annie, a mobile analytics company, advises in a blog how to take screenshots of games and applications correctly. We share a retelling.

The authors of World of Tanks have started negotiations with Gazprom-Media, Russia’s largest media holding.

In the first 30 days after downloading the application, more than half of the users become inactive. What needs to be done to prevent this from happening, – the analytical platform Localytics told in its latest research.

As a rule, only casual projects can boast of a fast set of a solid number of downloads. However, recently it became known that the Czech zombie shooter Unkilled also managed to achieve good performance relatively quickly.

The authors of the world’s highest-grossing three-in-a-row game held a short-term event in it, typical of midcore and hardcore games.

Wilhelm Taht, head of the External Products Department at Rovio, believes that motivated advertising gives zero results. And offers its own solution to the problem.

Chartboost company in its own blog talked about which four key metrics of the shareware game should be monitored during the trial run.

We continue to publish materials in our “Who’s Who” series (recall, instead of posting game announcements from young and not only studios, we invite them to tell about themselves). This time we talked to the studio Creobit.

Yesterday, the project of video blogger PewDiePie appeared in the stores. The game called PewDiePie: Legend of Brofist immediately appeared in the box office tops of several countries.

The role-playing project Final Fantasy XIII-2, released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in December 2011, became available for Japanese users to play on mobile iOS and Android devices.

As part of Unite Boston 2015, the winners of the Unity Awards for this year, a competitive program held annually by Unity Technologies, were announced. The main prize was taken away by the strategy Cities: Skylines from Colossal Order.

Mobile marketing company Fiksu is closing its American office. This is the second reduction in a year.