A report by Evgeny Kozlov from Twitter. He talked about how to use Twitter as a marketing channel to promote games and apps.

Mail.Ru The Group has published the results of a study of the Russian online gaming market. Its volume for 2016 amounted to 56.7 billion rubles ($845 million). 29% of this amount was accounted for by revenues from mobile games. This is 54% more than a year earlier.

Wargaming has pre-launched the action-MMO World of Warships Blitz on the App Store and Google Play.

Russian developers from a company owned by Mail.Ru Owlcat Games studios have raised more than $900,000 on the Kickstarter platform to create a Pathfinder: Kingmaker role-playing game.

NetEase has announced a competition with a prize fund of $ 400 thousand as part of the promotion of the free mobile role-playing MMO game Crusaders of Light.

Finnish gaming company Next Games has acquired the studio Lume Games, specializing in augmented (AR) and mixed reality (MR) projects.

Round table on HTML5 games. The participants of the round table discussed the present and the near future of the platform, touched upon topics such as instant messenger games and the current capabilities of Instant Games, talked about whether such projects will replace native applications.

In twelve months, the price of one share of G5 Entertainment has increased from 33.6 Swedish kronor ($4) to 302 Swedish kronor ($36.1).

By 2021, the gaming industry will grow to $200 billion with a cumulative annual growth rate of 7.9%.

What kind of downloads apps have, how to increase their number, what traffic parameters to look at after buying it, – says Vera Karpova, analyst at devtodev.

Report by Anna Krizhanovskaya from Playrix. She told why traffic is needed by any studio without exception and how to buy it correctly.

The number of active users of Rocket League arcade auto football has grown from 2 to 39 thousand players per hour in two years, according to the rating service GitHyp.

Last June, the Chinese Fidget Spinner from Doodle Mobile became the most downloaded game by total downloads from the App Store and Google Play.

According to unconfirmed information, Google intends to lift the ban on the presentation of gambling games with real money bets in the Android store.

Japanese mobile developers spend from $3.5 to $9 million to create one game. These costs do not include marketing and other items of expenditure.

Where to start when you undertake the creation of the game economy of a free-play game, – Konstantin Sakhnov, director of the game department of Rocket Jump studio, told on our pages.

The Japanese gaming corporation gumi has invested $ 4.5 million in the company inXile Entertainment of game designer Brian Fargo and his new VR project.

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.