Last night (April 30), Apple Corporation allowed developers to send applications for access to the beta version of its own analytical service App Analytics.

Representatives of the Japanese publishing house GREE and the French gaming company Gameloft will appear among the speakers of White Nights 2015.

Alexey Sazonov, who was responsible for sales and marketing at Herocraft for more than eight years, left the Kaliningrad company to found his own game studio — Krabwerk.

The American publisher and developer Glu Mobile reported for the first fiscal quarter of 2015. The company’s revenue reached $69.5 million and increased by 56% compared to the beginning of 2014.

According to the results of GamesJam Kanobu, the main prize — financing of the development by Nekki and PinkApp — was awarded to the project 12 is Better Than 6 from the independent studio Ink Stains Games. We talked to developers and investors about the project and its future.

Tencent has entered into a “strategic partnership” with Glu Mobile.

The authors of the mobile hit about socialite Kim Kardashian: Hollywood have announced another title “with a star”. This time, Britney Spears will perform as a guest celebrity.

The American company Big Fish, which once specialized in games in the genre of “I’m looking for”, demonstrated excellent financial performance in the first quarter of 2015.

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, Marketing Director of the American direction of Unity, commented on the news for App2Top that several episodes of République Remastered by Camouflage appeared in the Unity Asset Store.

Some people tend to believe in conspiracy theories and their own genius (and uniqueness). Sometimes this leads to high-profile stories, like the one that played out on Medium.

The attitude towards the Apple Watch (both users and developers) is cautious at the moment. There is no confidence in the prosperous future of the platform. And will it be the future?

Gameloft’s sales in the first quarter amounted to $71 million. The French company owes its financial success to new titles, including Dungeon Hunter 5.

Studio Seriously together with the toy manufacturer Kidrobot will release a series of figures for the game Best Fiends.

Founder of the indie studio Spiderweb Software Jeff Vogel (Jeff Vogel) deleted my latest game from iOS. The remaining projects will have the same fate after a while. The indie developer told about the reason for this decision in an interview with Venturebeat.

China’s mobile developers accounted for 25% of the amount that Apple paid for 2014 to all iOS developers.

To date, the App Store already has about 3315 applications for Apple Watch, – reports with reference to its own calculations PocketGamer.biz .

Oculus, in cooperation with the software manufacturer Otoy, announced the launch of an art competition for virtual reality. It is called Render the Metaverse and will last until July 26.

The Israeli analytical company AppsFlyer has come up with a way to measure the effectiveness of TV advertising for mobile games and applications.

Eric Seufert, Vice President of Acquisition and Engagement at Rovio, spoke in his blog about what an optimization funnel and growth are in relation to mobile app marketing. We offer the Russian version of the material.