Photos from a party at the estate of perhaps one of the richest game developers in the world, Markus Notch Persson, have appeared on the web. Where the icon of the indie movement lives, who sold her creation to Microsoft for $ 2.5 billion, was photographed by photographer Drew Ressler.

Today there are only two projects in the selection: “The Battle for Dunwich” and “1+2=3″.

45% of English women working in the gaming industry had difficulties in career growth due to gender, – according to a study conducted by the Next Gen Skills Academy.

The organizers of the Winter Nights 2015 conference said that one of the three streams of the event will be entirely devoted to the technical aspects of game development: no marketing and business development.

The Brainwars PvP puzzle from the Japanese company Translimit has been downloaded 10 million times.

The American company Kabam has acquired TapZen and Magic Pixel Games, two mobile game studios in Los Angeles. 

Hipster Whale studio, which developed Crossy Road, announced that the iOS version of the game with Unity Ads raised a significant amount – $ 1 million.

We bring to your attention a list of the most important January events dedicated to the gaming industry.

In the game selection for Tuesday, we have three projects: Veloz, Hadron Wars and Instant Hero.

Canadian gaming company Behavior Interactive has announced the purchase of a “significant number of mobile projects” from the owners of Zombie Farm. 

The original version of Heroes Charge turned out to be a real box office blockbuster in the Middle Kingdom last November. The game has overtaken both the Asian hit Pop Star and all the products of the giant Tencent in financial terms.

The number of active users of the endless runner from Kiloo is a little more than two times more than that of the most profitable PC MMO of 2014.

Gaming market revenues in Southeast Asia have already reached $1.1 billion and will double by 2017, Newzoo claims.

The number of companies engaged in IT marketing doubled in 2014. To date, their number has reached about two thousand.

We came out of the holidays, and with us – the heading “Releases of the day”. In today’s selection: Hero Pop, “Dictator: Revolution”, Stormfall: Rise of Balur and I Hate Fish.

On the territory of the EU, it became possible to return money for paid iTunes or App Store content – and continue to use it. 

Last week, Apple conducted a major revision of price tags in a number of regional App Stores. The changes affected not only Russia.