A report by Natalia Portier from Appodeal. She spoke about the main trends of mobile monetization. How much money can advertising in the game bring? How do formats and gameplay relate? What is the difference between different advertising networks and how to properly evaluate their effectiveness?

The Corona game engine has started accepting applications from game developers to participate in the publishing program. Its participants will be helped with cross-promotion and purchase of users.

The new Jump gaming service should start working during this summer. For a monthly fee of $10, Jump users will have access to an updated library of indie games.

The monitoring company SuperData predicted the sale of 3 million copies of the Destiny 2 MMO shooter by Bungie studio on PC in the first 3 months after the release of the game.

Facebook has enabled advertisers around the world to place ads in the Messenger app.

Japanese gamers took the first place in the world in spending in Pokémon GO. The average player’s expenses in the Pokemon homeland for the year are $26 — 3 times higher than in the USA.

The Finnish forge of Supercell hits has notified users about the start of deliveries of Clash of Clans merchandise around the world.

A new mobile publisher has appeared on the Russian market – Pride Games Studio, whose total downloads for the year since its foundation have reached 17 million. How much the company is ready to invest in the development of third-party projects and on what terms it works with teams, we talked with its founder Sergey Ivanenko.

Unity Technologies has released the final version of the game engine — Unity 2017.1, which opens the next version system after Unity 5.

A report by Alexander Shilyaev from Playrix. He spoke about the experience of creating match-3 games. How to choose an idea for an element, prepare an image and bring the element to the players. What to pay attention to when designing levels, setting complexity and conducting A/B tests.

What is a good-earning strategy in the USA? How many subgenres of strategies are there? What is the number of downloads per month for Clash Royale? We answer all the questions in the new material about the American mobile games market.

Created by a team of two people from Skipmore Studio, Kamiko arcade action game for the Nintendo Switch console has sold more than 110 thousand copies worldwide.

Open beta test of Cliff Bleszinski’s new project — MMO shooter LawBreakers — did not cause a stir among gamers, according to the rating service GitHyp.

Game designer and head of development of the shooter Killzone: Shadow Fall Steven ter Heide (Steven ter Heide) left the studio Guerilla Games.

The creator of the popular MOBA League of Legends, Riot Games has accused Chinese mobile developer Shanghai Moonton Technology of copyright infringement on its main product.

The Internet company Line Corporation has opened a publishing division for mobile games Line Games based on the South Korean studio NextFloor, 51% of which shares Line Corp. I bought it the day before.

The authors of the series Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry are going to open a second studio in Ukraine. The new unit will be located in Odessa.

Outplay Entertainment, a Scottish mobile game developer in the tower defense genre, earned $20 million last year, which is twice the company’s revenue for 2015.

In June, the Russian social network Fotostrana celebrated its ninth birthday. We talked with Leonid Katz, CRO of the social network, about what she can offer the game developer today.