The volume of the esports market is $612 million,” SuperData claims in its research.

A couple of months ago, the Infinario startup was launched, developing an analytical service of the same name, focused on application in mobile and social games. App2Top.ru I asked the co-founder of the new company about what the product can offer to game developers.

Russian publisher and developer JoyBits reported that the company’s games have been downloaded 170 million times.

The analytical company App Annie presented an overview of the world game charts of the App Store and Google Play for March, at the same time answering questions about who was the leader in downloads the month before last, which companies earned the most, and whether there were new trends in the mobile games market.

The developer of Super Evil Megacorp together with the European esports League ESL will hold the world’s first MOBA-game tournament on mobile devices.

The share of “apple” smartphones compared to 2014 increased by 1.8% in the five main markets of Europe – in England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Analysts from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech believe that the growth of Apple’s user base is due to former users of Android devices.

The fifteenth GAMM event will be held in Moscow on May 15-16. Among the speakers are the authors of Battlefield 4 and This War of Mine.

In early April, the game Gravity Defied from the Russian studio Rock Entertainment was released in the Russian App Store. Since the end of April, it has been included in the gaming top ten for free downloads. Its authors told App2Top.ru that we achieved this without investing in marketing.

Following the results of the 2015 financial year, EA Mobile shared its forecasts. She told me which games she expects good performance from. An important point is that they are all made based on existing IP addresses.

Asher Vollmer, the author of Threes!, the best iPhone game of last year according to Apple, yesterday, May 5, said on his Twitter page that his game was removed from Google Play because of the mention in the tags of project 2048.

EA has published the results of the 2015 financial year. Its revenue for this period amounted to $4.4 billion. EA Mobile accounts for $524 million of them (non-GAAP).

Before releasing a game, you need to think carefully about its monetization. First of all, this concerns advertising, the creators of the Mad Skills Motocross 2 mobile game are sure.

Blizzard has announced that the number of players in the collectible card game Hearthstone is now more than 30 million people.

The mobile market will reach the size of $45 billion by 2018 and will overtake the rest of the segments of the gaming industry. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to the forecast of the analytical company Digi-Capital.

The author of World of Goo, Ron Carmel, together with two other veterans of the game dev, is making a team strategy game for mobile devices. It is called Subterfuge and the main focus is on diplomacy.

The British studio Fireproof Games decided to invest part of the funds earned from The Room series in a new title developed by another team.

In early April, Microsoft Corporation began distributing Xbox 360 controllers in Russia in a package branded with the Shadow Fight 2 mobile game from the Moscow studio Nekki. About this event in detail App2Top.ru Sergey Babaev, Business Development Director of Nekki, told us.

Finnish publisher and developer Rovio is launching its new Nibblers game in Canada.

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