The Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Corp., which owns 51% of Supercell and its subsidiary GungHo, has started investing heavily in cinema.

The Tower Dwellers game, previously released on iOS and representing a mix of tower defense and RTS genres, is now available on Android.

Goodgame studios, the author of Empire: Four Kingdoms, has accepted a thousandth employee into its staff. Since its foundation in 2009, the studio team has grown continuously. Over the past year alone, Goodgame studios has hired 400 people. Now the studio is rightfully considered the largest game developer in Germany.

Rovio is going to mass layoffs; Ubisoft opens its own office in Russia; Twitter announces a platform for application developers. This is not only in our selection of the main news of last week.

A link with information about a free engine for game developers for Oculus Rift appeared a few days ago on the official Unreal Engine 4 website. 

Ubisoft has announced the opening of an office in Moscow. The company’s representative office in the capital will support the gaming community, localization of games and promotion of its products.

Twitter will introduce its own platform for application development. It will be called Twitter Fabric.

Hugo Games received $4 million from private investors. The creators of the Troll Hugo, known in our country as the Troll Kuzya, plan to spend money on promoting new projects.

Rovio’s staff will be reduced by 16%, according to Executive director Mikael Hed in a statement that appeared on Rovio’s official website today. We give a full translation of his letter.

Glu Games announced the restart of the Diner Dash game.

Jumpstart has released the game School of Dragons: Alchemy Adventure. A three-in-a-row title will help students learn chemistry.

Microsoft has introduced a new operating system. It’s called Windows 10.

Korean publisher and developer Gamevil announced that the Darkness Reborn project is being prepared for release.

Google is preparing to release new advertising formats for mobile devices and tools for creating ads.

Kaliningrad studio HeroCraft has released a project based on the popular board game. Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf has been released on iPad in South Africa.

Broadmedia Corp. She stated that she was going to transfer titles previously available only on consoles to smartphones and tablets. As a result, the company’s shares rose in price.Taro Hashimoto, Executive Director of the Taro Hashimoto Corporation, said that Broadmedia is ready to provide “cloud” technologies to game developers.

The other day DeNA announced the release of Star Wars: Galactic Defense. The game will be another in the extensive list of titles based on “Star Wars”. Good news for fans of the franchise – Star Wars: Galactic Defense promises the appearance of Boba Fett.

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Yahoo! Japan is going to publish mobile games, – it became known that the Japanese Internet giant is hiring a team of relevant specialists.