Disney has changed the monetization model to a more ethical one in the new Puffle Wild mobile project, a shareware continuation of the Club Penguin franchise. The decision was made in response to criticism of the in-game payment system in the game Where’s My Water 2.

This Saturday, as part of the PlayStation Experience, Double Fine Studio presented an updated version of Grim Fandango, a cult quest about the adventures of a travel agent of the afterlife Department of Death, Manny Calavera.

In the selection of central materials of the first week of December: how Beeline advertising increased Shadow Fight downloads by 2 times, why go to the Winter Night conference, what analytical services top applications use, how not to let your team “turn sour” after launching the project, and other useful information.

For the weekend we have three great new games in store for you – Roller Polar, Amazing Ninja and “Sea Empire”.

Today, it is more difficult than ever for mobile game developers to attract an audience to their products. Moreover, we are talking not only about traffic, but also about attracting attention from the media. We talked about working with them with representatives of PR agencies: Roman Goroshkin from ITLabz and Maxim Fomichev from Kool Things.

Mobile games in the Southeast Asian region have overtaken online PC games in popularity, according to a report conducted by the analytical firm Niko Partners.

EA Mobile games have passed the milestone of 2 billion downloads. In honor of the event, the company will distribute exactly the same number of gifts to its players.

A lot of good games came out today. We settled on the following: Braveland Wizard, Game of the Thrones, Fist of Jesus and Treasure Run.

The Gamasutra resource regularly publishes articles by developers, art directors and game designers about the industry. We choose the most interesting ones and share them with you.

Epic Games has published a new version of its engine. There are many changes. Some of them also touched on mobile development.

Creative Assembly company will release a new game from the Total War series on tablets, PCs and Macs. A title called Total War Battles: Kingdom will be distributed on a shareware model. 

The authors of Angry Birds announced that they are closing the studio in Tampere, and are also going to cut 130 people instead of the planned – “only” about 110.

Tomorrow, the chic Braveland Wizard and Dragonfall will be released, and today we have a slightly more modest list of new products: Space Kitty, Tomb Raider II and Dungeon of Genesis.

In the Japanese market for the last year, three projects have tried to take away the title of the highest-grossing game from Puzzle & Dragons. And, according to Metaps marketers, one game still managed to do it. So, meet the new “king” of Japanese yen – Monster Strike.

The ad2games marketing platform, specializing in the promotion of games, raised $9 million during the investment round,” the Techcrunch resource reported.

The Venturebeat resource conducted a study of the mobile analytics market, during which it found out: despite the fact that Google Analytics and Flurry are the choice of the majority, applications with the highest ratings rely not only on them.

The authors of Clash of Clans and Hay Day have published a new game in the Canadian App Store – Spooky Pop. The project belongs to the genre of “three-in-a-row”.