Industry December 23, 2016 Endless Lake gained 12 million players in Instant Games in 21 days Endless Lake has received 12 million users in three weeks on the new Facebook Instant Games platform.
Other December 23, 2016 2016 results: Alex Nichiporchik from tinyBuild on how the players have changed The founder of the publishing house tinyBuild Alex Nichiporchik said App2Top.ru , how the year went for the company, and also noted the most important trends of the outgoing months.
Industry December 23, 2016 Co-founder of Westwood Studios has released a freeplay strategy for mobile After three years of development on mobile platforms, the War Commander: Rogue Assault strategy from Kixeye has been released. The creative director of the project was one of the creators of Command & Conquer.
Marketing December 23, 2016 Mobio: the main trend of 2017 in mobile advertising is retargeting The increase in the cost of traffic will lead to the popularization of retargeting next year. About why this happened and what retargeting is App2Top.ru Alexey Pisarevsky, CEO of Mobio, told.
Money December 23, 2016 MegaFon buys a controlling stake Mail.Ru Group for $740 million Russian telecom operator Megafon has started preparing to buy 63.8% of the Internet giant’s management shares Mail.Ru Group. The transaction amount is less than $1 billion with the market capitalization of the IT company of $9.5 billion.
Industry December 22, 2016 A series about Finnish game developers has appeared A Devs documentary series dedicated to the backstage of the Finnish gaming industry has been launched on YouTube.
Industry December 22, 2016 The executive director of KamaGames Studio is leaving his post Viktor Zakharchenko, executive director of KamaGames Studio, is leaving the company after five years of work.
Industry December 22, 2016 Facebook announced the best games of 2016 At the end of the year, the Facebook social network traditionally named the best gaming projects of the platform. The main award was given to Gardenscapes by Playrix. Taonga: The Island Farm from Moscow Volka was also recognized as one of the best games. We tell you which projects have received awards.
Industry December 21, 2016 SuperData: the gaming industry earned $91 billion in a year In 2016, the total digital revenues of all games amounted to $91 billion. Most of the amount came from games for mobile platforms.
Development December 21, 2016 MonoGame: a framework for indie developers The developer of the MonoGame framework, on which Bastion and Axiom Verge were created, told the publication 80.lv about the capabilities of the package and work on it. We provide a translation of the material.
Industry December 20, 2016 Crytek closes five studios The developer of Warface and Crysis is closing five of its seven studios. The company will focus on creating premium products.
Industry December 20, 2016 Netmarble Games bought most of Kabam’s assets, as well as the company’s name Kabam sold the Vancouver studio and part of the offices in Austin and San Francisco, along with the name of the Korean Netmarble Games. The transaction amount may be $800 million.
Industry December 20, 2016 “The main way of income of music applications is subscription”: Gismart about itself and the market of mobile music games After reaching the mark of more than 130 million downloads, the Anglo-Belarusian company Gismart announced that it is ready to take up the publication of music-oriented games from third-party teams. We talked with the co-founder and CTO of the company Alexander Mints about where the company started and on what conditions it is ready to publish external projects.
Conferences December 19, 2016 The White Nights Prague 2017 program has been published The organizers of the White Nights conferences have released a preliminary program of the February event, which will be held in Prague.
Industry December 19, 2016 Super Mario Run indicators for the first three days The revenues and downloads of Super Mario Run in the first days and days turned out to be very high. Some downloads reached the 37 million mark. We tell you about the first records and indicators of the game.
Money December 19, 2016 Developer Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons bought outsourcer Forza Horizon 3 Starbreeze Studios acquired a 90.5% stake in Indian outsourcing studio Dhruva Interactive for $8.5 million.
Marketing December 19, 2016 Study: what motivates users to play? The analytical company Quantic Foundry, during a survey of 250 thousand people, identified the most common types of motivations among players.
Money December 19, 2016 An indie company from Sweden has bought an Arab publisher of freeplay games for $17 million Swedish indie company Stillfront Group has acquired 100% of the publisher of mobile social games Babil Games, based in Dubai and Amman, for $ 17 million.
Games December 16, 2016 Super Mario Run topped the box office top App Store in the USA On the first day of release, Super Mario Run topped the box office top apps in 8 countries, including the USA, Canada and Germany.
Developer Diaries December 16, 2016 Developer Diaries: The Development History of Lords of Discord (#2) Kaliningrad company HeroCraft continues to share with App2Top the story of how, despite the loss of the license for the famous Disciples brand, it was working on the game Lords of Discord.