The share of children’s expenses in the global mobile games market will amount to 7.8% or $1.9 billion in 2015,” the American research company Superdata said in the framework of Casual Connect USA 2015.

Creator of World of Tanks, company Wargaming.net , announced a new appointment. Keith Anderson has taken the post of Head of Marketing and Communications in Europe.

The author of Galaxy on Fire named two reasons why working on a PC project is better than working on a mobile game.

In the West, a lot of success stories in the mobile games market are associated with venture investments. In Russia, the very possibility of such plots has always been labeled “science fiction”. And, apparently, there is no need to wait for a change in the situation in the near future: the Russian venture capital investment market has fallen by half.

Barcelona-based developer Timo Kloss has created an application whose task is to teach the BASIC programming language. For this purpose, the user is offered to create a mobile game in a retro style.

The developers of Fallout Shelter have registered a profile on behalf of Vault Boy on the social network for dating Tinder.

The game from Bethesda based on the Fallout series takes first place in the American Google Play top – just a week after the release.

Blizzard loses money on every Hearthstone player who switches from PC to mobile devices.

One of the largest publishers in the Chinese mobile games market, iDreamSky, has invested $ 10 million in the American studio Rumble Entertainment. Jeff Lyndon, founder of iDreamSky, told Venturebeat about this.

Game optimization is not the most popular topic. It seems as if it is believed that only geeks who are ready to spend on new gadgets annually play on mobile devices, but this is not the case.

The company developing the Unity game engine announced the launch of a new event – Vision Summit, a conference on virtual and augmented reality.

As part of the D23 Expo, currently taking place in Anaheim (California, USA), Disney Interactive has announced a mobile game in which users will be able to rebuild their own Disneyland – Disney Magic Kingdoms.

While small teams are trying to find traffic, big companies are trying to figure out how to monetize it if they can’t sell IAP in the right amount. Zynga is just one of such giants.

The authors of the Heliborne helicopter simulator – the Lithuanian JetCat team – raised €100 thousand to finalize the project.

In the year since its release, the Clash of Kings mobile game from ELEX Wireless has been downloaded 65 million times. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to a press release from the company.

All this week I have been sharing with my colleagues an observation: the summer turned out to be hot for events. Every day something happens, after which you have to look for the jaw under the neighbor’s table: then Milner will pour money into Vainglory, then Hearthstone earnings will be more than DOTA 2. In general, about the most important thing for the week – see under the cut.

Game Analytics, an analytical platform and game publisher, has published a list of 21 training resources for game developers on its blog. Now this list can be found on our pages.

The volume of the Japanese gaming market will reach $12.3 billion by the end of this year, according to analysts from Newzoo. This means an increase of 2.1% compared to 2014, when the local market earned $ 12.05 billion.

Pixel Toys Studio and Games Workshop will release a game based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. A game called Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade will appear on mobile devices this fall.