Ustwo Games studio, famous for the mobile adventure game Monument Valley, announced the release date and published a video of its second game – Land’s End.

From April 1 to July 31, 2.5 billion downloads of games created on Unity were made, – the authors of the engine said in the first issue of their own report “By the numbers“.

A third of gaming industry workers do not receive overtime pay. This is reported in a study conducted by IGDA.

Following our colleagues with PocketGamer.biz we have discovered a new trend: Clash of Clans is no longer an unambiguous box office leader. For example, in Russia, the box office of another strategy – Game of War – turned out to be larger in August.

The analytical company Newzoo claims that by 2018 the volume of the esports market will reach $ 765 million.

An American company with Russian roots – Sperasoft – took on the post of senior technical director of the former director of release management of Rockstar Games.

On Friday, the French gaming resource Gameblog shared that Konami will stop developing console games and focus almost entirely on mobile. It was reported that the only console franchise of the Japanese company will be the Pro Evolution Soccer series. Konami representatives denied the rumors.

In less than a month since its release, the Angry Birds 2 mobile game has been downloaded more than 50 million times.

How to properly promote a mobile game with the help of PR, – said Janel Torkington, head of the content department of App Store, and SoftPressRelease PR agency translated her story for App2Top.ru into Russian.

The organizers of the Russian-language GameDevParty game jam announced the dates of its holding.

Activision has released a shareware game based on the English TV series “Downton Abbey”.

It became known that the game The Witness from the author of Braid Jonathan Blow (Jonathan Blow) will also appear on tablets.

The largest American electronic store has announced the second generation of the Fire TV set-top box, as well as its gaming version, complete with a gamepad.

We continue our heading “Faces of the industry”, in which we introduce industry specialists (so far only with artists, but we will definitely get to game designers). This time Valeria Bulatchik, an artist from 101XP, who drew a game in the three-in-a-row “Expedition” genre, told us about herself.

Owners of Android devices will soon have the opportunity to stream game videos directly from a smartphone or tablet. This was announced by the head of the new YouTube Gaming service Ryan Wyatt at the Tokyo Game Show 2015.

On Wednesday, September 16, Apple released the ninth version of the OS for mobile devices. The VentureBeat resource figured out exactly what iOS 9 is interesting to game developers.

The English studio Pixel Hero Games has released a trailer for its mobile game, created based on the book cycle by Dan Abnett (Dan Abnett) “Eisenhorn”. The game looks very good on video.

The game in the genre of three-in-a-row Frozen Free Fall (known in Russia as “Cold Heart: Starfall”) overcame the mark of 100 million downloads, – announced today, September 17, the Russian office of Disney, and at the same time shared an infographic dedicated to this event.

Apple has changed the rules for Apple TV developers. Now any game under tvOS must support the remote control, which is equipped with “Apple” set-top boxes.