The promotion of mobile games is once again reaching a new level. Model Kate Upton, star of Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition, starred in a Game of War commercial.

Thursday, which means it’s time to watch the new App Store. There is a lot of space and a lot of pixel art in the release today.

Last week, Ilya Eremeev, creative director of A-Steroids, wrote an extensive post on his Facebook page dedicated to Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf. With the kind permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

The rating of young and successful entrepreneurs of Russia for 2014, compiled by The Village, included four game developers.

The year of major deals continues. American Churchill Downs Incorporated, engaged in a wide range of gambling and horse racing, is in the process of buying Big Fish Games. The transaction amount may reach $885 million.

Two employees of the Australian Halfbrick (Fruit Ninja, Monster Dash, Jetpack Joyride) have opened a studio and are going to release their first project this month.

Newzoo has presented a list of the 20 most popular Android games for the past October. This time we decided to dispense with the boring enumeration of titles and publish gameplay videos of projects, fortunately, they will say exactly more than a dry selection.

The third part of one of the main games in the tower defense genre (in mobile and in general) has got a release date. Kingdom Rush Origins from the Uruguayan Ironhide team will appear on the App Store and Google Play next Thursday, November 20.

Yesterday, November 11, the worldwide launch of the mobile version of Candy Crush Soda Saga took place on iOS and Android platforms.

Egor Vasiliev, producer of the Moscow company Nexters (“Battle for the Throne”, “Full Pi”, “Dragon Day”, “City of the Dead”, etc.) on his Facebook page raised an urgent question about the role of analytics in game projects.

Execution Labs, a firm that supports and launches gaming startups, has raised $5.3 million.