The British company Playtech has acquired for $ 16.4 million the Scottish studio YoYo Games, which develops and supports the multi-platform game engine GameMaker.

The Chinese New Year is on the nose, and on this occasion – a few words from analysts from Niko Partners about what awaits the mobile gaming market of China in 2015.

The UK’s largest tabloid, The Sun, has announced plans to create a mobile gaming platform where users can bet for real money.

According to the Turkish government, the level of violence in the Minecraft game can be harmful to the child’s psyche,” the Polygon resource reports, citing a BBC report.

Singapore-based developer Boomzap has announced a mobile card RPG about monsters under the working title Monster Roller.

The financial growth of GungHo has significantly decreased, as it became clear from the published financial statements for 2014. Does this mean that difficult times are coming for the Japanese industry giant?

Despite the large losses, the year ended on a positive note for the American company.

Text broadcasts from Winter Nights 2015; secrets of portfolio investments from App Annie; the latest innovations in the App Store – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

Friday, evening, fresh releases for the weekend. However, today we have a place for classics in our selection.

The updated Empires & Allies game from Zynga has launched in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Estonian developer and publisher Creative Mobile has announced the GameDev Days 2015 conference, which will be held on April 8-9 in Tallinn.

Zynga has announced the launch of a game in the match-3 genre based on its own FarmVille franchise, the Venturebeat resource reports.

The authors of Candy Crush and Bubble Witch reported to investors last year. Despite the release of Candy Crush Soda Saga and aggressive advertising during the Christmas season, the British continue to lose paying users.

The British publisher and developer King has acquired the Z2Live game studio in the USA. This is the first studio bought by the company in America.

Apple has increased the size limit of downloaded games and apps from 2GB to 4GB. This happened for the first time since the launch of the App Store.

A selection of paid games without micropayments has appeared in the American App Store.

A new day, new releases. This time there are three projects in our networks. Everyone, at least, deserves attention.

Last year was extremely successful for the Korean company. Gamevil’s annual revenues for the first time overcame the psychological mark of $ 100 million, its profit amounted to $20.6 million.

At the Winter Nights 2015 conference that just ended, we took a short interview with the author of the Siberia dilogy, Benoît Sokal.