We have already written more than once that the revenue of the shareware game is provided by a small percentage of “whales”. Mobile marketing platform Swrve clarified the figures in its research. Only 0.23% of the players are responsible for 64% of the revenue.

The App Store in the UK has started to feature IAP in a shareware game.

I’ll start with the sad one – Hearthstone for smartphones is not worth waiting for today. Developers from Blizzard on Reddit said that the game will be released soon, but “today is not her day.” And we have League of Angels – Fire Raiders and Dragon Hills in our collection.

Angry Birds Go game! It has sold more copies in two years than Mario Kart has in more than twenty years. Oskar Burman, the general manager of the Stockholm branch of Rovio, did not fail to emphasize this fact in his Twitter account.

In the second part of the analysis Heroes Charge Alexander Shtachenko not only talks about the set of mechanics that are used in the game, but also demonstrates how developers teach and encourage them to use them.

The mobile version of the Postal game has not been censored on Google PLay. The reason for the refusal was the “gratuitous cruelty” of the title.

The highest average retention level in mobile games over the past year was observed in games released on Windows Phone, – analysts from devtodev told us.

The mobile software development company Apus Group conducted a global study of the Google Play store. There are an average of 37 apps per user, and if you live in Japan, at least 5 of them are games.

The Finnish gaming industry has become one of the most attractive for investors among the Nordic countries. The Pocketgamer resource understands why.

Don Mattrick, CEO of Zynga since July 2013, is leaving the company. The founder of Zynga, Mark Pincus, returns to the post of CEO.

Does it make sense to sacrifice the visual quality of one aspect in favor of another in the graphic design of the game? The developers of the mobile Mortal Combat X answered this question positively, but what do you think?

The game Fantasy Life 2: Two Moons And The Village of God will be released exclusively on iOS and Android. The Level-5 studio announced this during its Vision 2015 press conference.

More than 10 million accounts of Russian users of Apple products may have been hacked by an attacker.

The Wear VR company has attracted investments of $1.5 million. With this money, she will develop a store of the same name for virtual reality games. The funds came from a group of American investors.

Mobile developers have spent more on TV advertising this year than console studios. About this with reference to the research of the iSpot resource.tv reports the online publication Venturebeat.

A conference dedicated to the development of mobile games has started today in the capital of Estonia. You can watch the broadcast of the event here.

Game of War: Fire Age earns $1 million a day. All this is thanks to an advertisement with the American actress and model Kate Upton.

The Haunted Empire that got into the collection today brought me back to the question of whether it would not be better to download the entire application to a mobile device during the initial installation?

Crytek has signed a licensing agreement with Amazon. Under the terms of the deal, the American retailer receives the rights to use the CryEngine engine. This is reported by the Kotaku resource with reference to sources close to the management of Amazon.