A new project from Rovio Stars is coming out on Thursday. The new title is dedicated not to birds, as you might think, but to pirates.

German publisher and developer Wooga opens an office in Tokyo. In the future, the company plans to work closely with Asian colleagues.

David Helgason, executive Director of Unity, believes that the era of “stagnation” has come in the gaming industry, especially mobile. Companies like King and Supercell are at the top of the charts month after month and, according to Helgason, it’s terrible. According to him, the times when there was constant movement in the rating were much more interesting.

Following the results of the transaction between the Internet giant Mail.ru Group and the UCP investment fund, it turned out that the largest Russian social network cost its current owner less than Microsoft’s Mojang.

In January last year, Rovio made an offer to the authors of Kingdom Rush. However, the Uruguayans refused to join the Angry Birds empire.

The number of downloads of the Road Riot game from Tango has reached 10 million. The title boasts a million active users per day.

Last night, Blizzard announced on the Twitter page of its Hearthstone game that the number of users of the project exceeded the mark of 20 million people.

Almost simultaneously with the confirmation of Microsoft’s purchase of Mojang, Minecraft author Markus Notch Persson published an appeal on his blog explaining why he is selling and leaving the company. We bring to your attention the full Russian version of his post.

A working day dedicated to game development can be brightened up by playing game development. At least, that’s what the author of Crunch Time, a card game for iPad, thinks.

We didn’t believe it, but in vain. The Mojang team confirmed in its official blog that Microsoft is buying it.

The game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood visited the commercial top of the AppStore and became the most downloaded game of July. Developer Glu Games shared details about the project.A game from Glu Games called Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is in fifth place in the commercial top of the AppStore.

Interesting material has appeared in the blog of the analytical company Fiksu. In it, Chris Shuptrine, the company’s director of new markets, talked about why so much money should be spent on marketing. Of course, we could not pass by such an article and offer its Russian version.

Remember, we wrote about the victorious march of games from Colopl, united by a common theme – cats? So, the White Cat Project (Shiro Neko Project) continues to break popularity records. Since the launch on Android and iOS, which is on July 14 and 25, respectively, the number of downloads of the game has exceeded 12 million.

The Japanese messenger continues to expand into world markets. Indonesia is already in the pocket, where Line already has more than 30 million registered users.

Zynga is still feverish. Maytal Olsha, head of slots for social and mobile platforms, left the company for her own startup.As it became known recently, Olsha left her job a month ago.

Editorial Office App2Top.ru offers to get acquainted with a selection of the central materials of our resource for the past week.

A ZeptoLab representative stated App2Top.ru that by the end of 2014, more than 300 names of various retail products under the brand of the mobile game Cut The Rope will be on sale in Russia.

With a decent delay, we are publishing the App Annie report on the global mobile games market for the remaining July somewhere far behind.

Now the app purchased on Google Play can be returned within 2 hours.