Sensor Tower analytical company has published a big forecast for the mobile market. By 2025, annual consumer spending on applications in Russia will reach $2.7 billion, and in the world this figure will amount to $270 billion. At the same time, more than half of the total amount will be spent on games.General forecast

SuperData analysts shared a fresh overview of the digital gaming market. Among the most successful projects in January are Valorant and Red Dead Redemption 2.

The MY.GAMES brand conducted a large-scale study and studied the mental health of users of online games. It turned out that Russian gamers began to feel much better during the pandemic. In part, video games helped them in this — with their help, every third person did not notice the lack of live communication.

Roblox continues to increase its influence in the USA. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the company managed to increase its revenue share in the mobile market to almost 5%, now second only to King and Playrix in this indicator.GameRefinery told about the changes in the positions of mobile publishers in the American market in its report for the fourth quarter of 2020.

Omdia analysts have published a forecast about the possible consequences of Apple‘s IDFA policy. They assumed that this year the advertising market in iOS applications will fall by 17% at once.

devtodev now has full support for SQL queries right in the service interface. It replaced SQL Wizard, which was limited to a custom set of functions.The main advantage of implementing full SQL support is the use of virtually any data that the devtodev platform has collected about events in the game.

China’s gaming market has overflowed with mobile developers, SCMP believes. Competition in the country has intensified, and Chinese companies have increasingly begun to look towards the West. Titles based on famous franchises like “Harry Potter”, “The Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones” help to achieve popularity among European players.

Newzoo analysts have found out that Saudi Arabia is very fond of video games. More than three-quarters of the country’s online population consider themselves gamers. At the same time, the lion’s share of players chooses mobile.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the revenues of developers around the world. Australia is no exception. Revenue of Australian game studios exceeded $140.4 million last year.

The Epic Games team talked about what 2020 was like for its digital store. The report contains detailed statistics with business indicators and a few plans for this year. Spoiler: Weekly game giveaways will continue in 2021.

SuperData analysts summed up the results of last December in a fresh review of the digital games market, telling about the most successful projects of the month. Among them are Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite and GTA V.

Nintendo Switch is changing the console market in the same way as the Wii did at the time, analysts at Interpret believe. She captivated an audience with games that had not been interested in them before. We are talking about people aged 45-65 years.

Free prologues on Steam can be a good marketing tool to promote the game before release. Gaming expert Simon Carless analyzed their impact on sales and adding to vishlists, describing successful and failed cases.

Analytical company Niko Partners told about the key events and trends of last year in the Asian mobile games market. Among them are a record number of Tencent investment deals, the growth of esports and increased interest in Genshin Impact.Genshin Impact is the most popular streaming game in China

While the latest mobile projects on “Star Wars” practically do not generate revenue, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes collects really astronomical revenue. To date, the title’s earnings have exceeded $ 1.2 billion.

InvestGame analysts have prepared a study on transactions in the gaming industry over the past year. It turned out to be fruitful. The volume of investments, public offerings and M&A agreements reached $33.6 billion.

Facebook has published the results of a large-scale study on the behavior of mobile gamers in 2020. The company told how the preferences of users and their purchasing power have changed, and compiled a portrait of new gamers — those who started playing only after the lockdown.Research methodology

Steam shared the results of last year. The platform described in detail what changes 2020 brought to it, and also published statistics with its business indicators. Below are the main ones.

The analytical company App Annie has presented a large report on the mobile market for 2020. It turned out that most of the revenue was provided by hardcore players. It also became known from the material which gameplay features were the most effective in terms of monetization.Comparison of different types of players