Apptopia has published an interesting infographic: in how many days mobile games overcame the bar of 100 million downloads on iOS. Super Mario Run achieved this the fastest.

The digital gaming market is growing. A year earlier, its turnover in June was $7.9 billion. This year, June sales reached $9.1 billion.

It seems that the new update of the indie adventure No Man’s Sky has brought the game back to life. Having lost almost the entire audience, the game returned to the top 10 popular titles on Steam.

In February, the mobile game Little Adventure on the Prairie was ported to PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. The game is frankly of poor quality, but gamers buy it to earn platinum trophies and raise their status in the gaming charts.

App Annie analytical platform has introduced a new tool. It’s called Paid & Organic Downloads. With its help, users of the platform can see which share of downloads in competitors’ games is paid, and which is organic.

The role-playing game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes in the USA, the game began to earn noticeably less, and in Germany, on the contrary. 

A report by Jan Kavan from CBE software. The speaker spoke about the internal aspects of design dealing with interpretations, emotions and non-linearity, as well as about the introduction of local folklore, real places and historical parallels into the game in order to get good media coverage. Ian also shared the secrets of working with Unreal Engine, starting from the experience of creating the upcoming game Someday You’ll Return.

Korea ranks fourth in terms of the turnover of the gaming market in the world, although a year ago it was sixth. According to Newzoo estimates, Korean gamers will spend $5.6 billion this year.

A report by Max Malygin from krem productions at White Nights St. Petersburg. In his speech, the speaker told which video formats are best used in the marketing of the game.

Epic Games Licensing Manager Alexey Savchenko explains the meaning of the business developer’s work, talks about the types of investments and gives advice for successful negotiations.

Sensor Tower has compiled lists of the most downloaded and profitable games in the App Store and Google Play for the second quarter of 2018. PUBG Mobile has lost the lead in downloads to the hyper-casual arcade Helix Jump.

According to Newzoo, Germany closes the top five largest gaming markets in the world with an annual turnover of $ 4.7 billion. This is the largest gaming market in Europe.

Polish company 11 bit studios, which created This War of Mine and Frostpunk, admitted that the game released to her Beat Cop was unsuccessful. The game parodies series about cops, but critics did not appreciate the monotonous gameplay, rude jokes and police violence.

In his report, Mike Hines from Amazon shared examples that will help attract, retain and monetize players in the Amazon App Store.

The game Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle, a free-play tactical fighting game from Bandai Namco, has earned more than $1 billion in two years since its release. 

British gamers will spend $4.5 billion this year, Newzoo predicts. In terms of revenue, the country’s gaming market ranks sixth in the world.

Wanted: Art Director at Overmobile, Marketing Analyst at Wargaming, game designer at Kefir!.

Report by Diana Platonova from MyTona. Diana shared the results of the MyTona study, which is based on psychological pricing, localization practices and artistic design, on the practical example of Seeker’s Notes.

Startup Knock Knock, founded by immigrants from Zynga and TinyCo, will develop mobile chat games that can be played in messengers. The team has already raised $2 million for their projects.