The main thing for the week (09.03.2015 - 13.03.2015)

All the most interesting materials of the last week are in our traditional selection.

Apple Watch will go on sale on April 24

The central news of last week was the presentation of Apple, which took place on March 9. The Apple Company held it at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. As part of the presentation, Apple introduced a new laptop and talked about the working hours of its watches.

What to buy instead of Apple Watch Edition?

The version of the Apple Watch Edition presented turned out to be “rich”: the case of the models is made of 18-carat gold. The cost of the most budget – starts from $ 10,000. Squinting like a proletarian, we calculated what we could buy with this money.

Round table: we analyze the Best Fiends together with Alis Games

To the editor of App2Top Alexander Semenov wrote Denis Voikhansky, the head of Alis Games, and offered to arrange a discussion Best Fiend s in the framework of the “good and evil policeman”. The editor liked the idea, but instead of an ideological confrontation, he had a kind of round table on the game of the Finnish studio Seriously with Denis and Alexander Shalupnya, the creative director of the Minsk company.

Odnoklassniki social games earned 7.2 billion rubles in 2014
The Russian social network Odnoklassniki has paid about 4 billion rubles to software developers.

90% of this amount was accounted for by the creators of gaming products.

Herocraft has announced a tactical “bagel” World of Dungeons
Recently, the Russian company Herocraft announced the development of a new game – a hardcore role-playing project World of Dungeons.

We talked about the future project with its head, Georgy Yerkhan.

Unity will share training materials for free

Unity will distribute training materials for the Unity 5 engine for free as part of its own non-profit program. Information about this appeared in the official blog of the company.

BAFTA recognized Monument Valley as the best mobile game of the year

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts held the award ceremony for the best video games of the year for the 11th time. Monument Valley from ustwo was named the best mobile game.

Mobile Tales of Epic Failure

Four developers shared what they learned from mobile games, whose releases led to nothing.

Twelve tips for an indie developer

Some business tips for indie developers from Paul Taylor, co-founder of the English independent studio Mode 7.

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