Us on App2Top.ru the developer wrote the other day: “how to promote an f2p game in the USA in the racing section of Google Play with a budget of $5-6k?”. Based on this question, we had a more general query: what to do if the marketing budget of a mobile game is only $ 5-6 thousand? We addressed it to the experts.

Not so long ago, the organizers of the Casual Connect conference series took the initiative. Developers of the best projects of Eastern European gaming events are offered free flights and accommodation in Israel to participate in the international indie developers Indie Prize Showcase at Casual Connect Tel Aviv 2015.

The authors of World of Tanks have officially announced their publishing ambitions. Yesterday, the company announced the introduction of WG Labs, a laboratory for supervising external projects.

Fighting game in the Marvel universe has become the fastest-earning Kabam game, “raising” more than $100 million in 7 months.

Rovio announced that Angry Birds 2 has overcome the threshold of 1 million installations in a very short time by mobile standards – 12 hours.

Chinese publisher and developer LongTu Games will release the Godus project of studio 22cans in China.

Mateusz Piaskiewicz is a landscape architect and game designer. He told in his blog what composition laws you need to know in order to create beautiful game levels. We retell its text in a thesis.

Gameloft’s MAU decreased by 10% compared to the first quarter of 2015, and DAU – by 17%. This is reported in the financial report of the French gaming company.

Six years after the release of the original Angry Birds, the Finnish company Rovio presented the first sequel to the game.

In 2015, the size of the gaming market in Russia will pass the mark of $ 1.3 billion. This is reported by the Newzoo research agency.

In 2014, the online multiplayer games market in Russia reached the level of 28 billion rubles. This is 24% more than in 2013, the company claims Mail.Ru Group in the official press release.

Razer has pushed the purchase of Android console manufacturer Ouya. Information about this appeared in the official press release of Razer.

A gaming company from Italy, Digital Bros, will have a branch in the city of Shenzhen.

The developer of Brave Frontier, the Japanese studio gumi, is still trying to sit on two chairs: to create a game that is equally successful in both the Asian and Western markets.

GREE International, a subsidiary of the Japanese GREE, will have branches in Germany and Australia. The company will thus “expand its presence in the West.”

The team of the AppInTop group of companies has published a book “Pump money!” dedicated to the marketing of mobile games and applications. We bring to your attention one of the chapters of the book – “Working with the media” (on the day of the PR specialist, it seemed very relevant to us).

On the eve of the release of Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft has released a beta version of its own graphical shell for smartphones based on the Google operating system.

The success of the Fallout Shelter game will not force Bethesda to “stamp” mobile projects one by one. Pete Hines, Vice president of Marketing and PR, said this in an interview with IGN.

We continue to upload videos from White Nights 2015. Next up is a master class by Evgeny Kozlov from Twitter. As part of the master class, Evgeny reviewed practical examples used by leading Russian digital agencies in working with Twitter.