Eric Seufert, Wooga’s lead marketer, shared his thoughts on Candy Crush Soda Saga: what the game has achieved since its release, why King needs it, and why the British have returned to cross-promotion in their projects.

Chinese publisher and developer Yodo1, together with Alibaba Media Corporation, launched the mobile social gaming platform KTplay. With its help, there have already been more than 60 million downloads of games. Thus, about 50 Chinese developers have significantly increased the profitability of their titles.

Ubisoft will release next January an HD edition of the legendary Heroes of Might & Magic III on PC and mobile devices. However, since yesterday evening, when the French announced this, this is no longer news, given the number of fans of the original game among the Russian audience, who immediately picked it up. The question is, is this good news? 

An MMO on the Borderlands universe will appear in China. The development will be handled by the local studio Shanda Games together with 2K Games.

The company Live Game Board, which combines augmented reality and board games, has released a set of development tools for Unity.

Today we have two games in our selection – one from Novosibirsk, and the other from Indonesia. Meet: The Treasures of Montezuma 4 and Vimala: Defense Warlords.

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.

Metaps, as if in pursuit of the infographic from Superdata, published a detailed analysis of how many days / months this year the top games were in the box office tops of the App Store and Google Play in the first or third places.

How much the digital games market, the Asian mobile games market, as well as the three leading box office games on iOS/Android have earned, experts from Superdata told.

A virtual reality helmet has appeared on sale, which Samsung, together with Oculus Rift, introduced back in September. Gear VR Innovator Edition can be purchased from Samsung’s online store for $199.99. To use the helmet, you will need a Galaxy Note 4 phablet that plays the role of a display.

Apple summed up the results of the year: the company presented its favorites this year, and also told which games were the most successful in terms of downloads and revenue. 

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.