All the most interesting materials of the last week are in our traditional selection.

Computer science teacher Damien Djauti from the French University of Montpellier II has compiled a list of 150 books for game developers.

Friday’s selection includes three games: Dwarfs & Dragons, Disco Panda and Magic Cat Story.

The Venturebeat resource spoke about the four most popular trends in mobile marketing related to social platforms.

Yesterday, March 12, in London, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts held the award ceremony for the best video games of the year for the 11th time. Monument Valley from ustwo was named the best mobile game.

There are significantly fewer female characters in the runners than male ones, and they cost more. The Toucharcade resource came to this conclusion after a twelve-year-old schoolgirl.

Recently, the Russian company Herocraft announced the development of a new game – the hardcore role-playing project World of Dungeons. We talked about the future project with its head, Georgy Yerkhan.

Our column “Captain Obvious recommends”, in which we share well-known, but no less useful truths, this Friday was replenished with another material. These are some business tips for indie developers. They belong to Paul Taylor, co-founder of the English independent studio Mode 7. He is currently working on a multiplayer strategy for PC, Mac and mobile devices called Frozen Synapse.

Today there are three good projects in our collection – Dungeon Hunter V, Angry Birds Stella POP! and Sid Meier’s Starships.

The Russian social network Odnoklassniki has paid about 4 billion rubles to software developers. 90% of this amount was accounted for by the creators of gaming products.

Facebook may face class action lawsuits from parents whose children have spent money on the social network without permission, – the Pocketgamer resource reports.

Indian mobile game studio Moonfrog raised $15 million during the investment round A.

Unity will distribute training materials for the Unity 5 engine for free as part of its own non-profit program. Information about this appeared in the official blog of the company.

Games whose release takes place immediately on mobile and desktop platforms began to enter the market more and more often. The problem is that their publishers often do not take into account the pricing system that has developed in the mobile market.

Four developers shared what they learned from mobile games, whose releases led to nothing.

The iTunes Store, App Store and Mac App Store were unstable all day yesterday, and iTunes Connect dropped altogether. Now everything is fine.

Amazon Game Studios recently announced four iOS games: Lost Within, Til Morning’s Light, Tales From Deep Space and To-Fu Fury.

Cygames studio, which developed the popular Rage of Bahamut game, is going to launch a series of animation projects based on its games.

The PlayStation Mobile (PSM) store will close on July 5 of this year. This is reported in the official Playstation community blog.