How to develop games in the match-3 genre correctly, why publishers are coming back into fashion, what can go wrong when working on a game – about this and much more in our digest for last week.

Rovio Entertainmen has announced the release of a series of books Storm Sisters for teenagers.

On Saturday, it was possible to watch a live broadcast from Dnepropetrovsk DevNight on our website. Actually, we have re-uploaded the publication today so that we can also now see how it was.

Billing provider Fortumo is launching a new development kit that allows you to make purchases inside an app or game without an Internet connection.

Of the 14 best WP applications of 2014 (according to Microsoft), ten are games. 

As part of the King of Thieves announcement, ZeptoLab announced its publishing ambitions.

Video advertising in games should be used dosed,” warns Nick Hatter, creator of the giftgaming marketing platform, in his blog.

The authors of Cut the Rope announced work on a new project – King of Thieves. The novelty is announced as a “multiplayer project for iOS with platformer elements and tower defense”.

The vice president of Appsee believes that the developers of mobile applications will be better able to draw any conclusions about the behavior of users – heat maps. 

Com2us invited the stars of the Vine video network and a street artist to advertise the Summoners War game.

Applications for participation in the Stugan initiative are open, the purpose of which is to help talented developers from all over the world to declare themselves. The event will be held from July 1 to August 31. You need to submit an application before March 31.

Three amazing games have been released today: Skyward, Rocket Cars and Blood Brothers 2. We will tell you about them in our today’s issue.

Ben Serviss, a programmer, game designer and game producer from New York, described the stages of creating a text game in his blog. We have translated the text with his permission and are sharing it with you.

Today we wrote where it will be possible to gather in St. Petersburg to work on your projects for Global Game Jam together with friends and industry colleagues. There will be such a place in Moscow too.

Communication with industry acquaintances often leads to certain thoughts about what game development should and should not be. Based on such conversations, we have written a short article about possible managerial mistakes when creating games.

From January 23 to January 25, St. Petersburg will join the Global Game Jam game development marathon. The participants will be hosted by the local Wargaming office. The event is organized by NextCastle Party with the support of Unity.

Today we have two great projects in our game collection – The Witcher Battle Arena and Retro Wings.

The next event in the DevNight series will be held in Dnepropetrovsk this Saturday, January 24.