Singapore-based startup Yoyo Holdings, the creator of the Candy mobile rewards platform, has completed another round of funding.

The American company Glu has shared its plans for the next five years. The authors of the game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood plan to earn $ 1 billion a year by 2020. Of these, the share of titles with celebrities will have $ 500 million.

A multiplayer mode will appear in the Puzzle & Dragons title.

In the American App Store in game subcategories (Action, Adventure, and so on) instead of the lists generated by the robot, editorial collections by genre appeared.

Retaining users and acquiring them has never cost more than it does now. This conclusion is made by the analytical company Fiksu based on its own data.

In the Finnish city of Oulu, people from Rovio and Nokia have organized an independent studio for the development of mobile games – Koukoi Games.

On June 1, Adobe announced the acquisition of Mixamo Studio, specializing in the sale of ready-made three-dimensional models and animations for them.

The Google I/O 2015 conference was recently held. With a little delay, we are telling you about the interesting new features of the AdMob advertising network. They are designed to help developers optimize in-game advertising.

Last Wednesday, May 27, the second meeting of Unity developers – UUG SPB took place in St. Petersburg. Presentations from the event are in our publication.

The founders of the independent Hipster Whale studio, famous for the game Crossy Road, invested in Prettygreat, a young company founded by immigrants from the Australian Halfbrick.

About 69.2% of mobile devices in the United States run on Android OS – versus 29.6% on iOS. This is claimed by the New York advertising platform Fluent, based on its own data.

South Korean developer Fincon, who has the Hello Hero project in his assets, has published another trailer for his new mobile game Angel Stone. It will be released this year.

Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank has acquired an additional 22.7% of the creators of Clash of Clans and Hay Day.

The console from Nintendo under the working name NX will probably function on the basis of the Android OS. This is with reference to a source close to the company’s management, the Japanese newspaper Nikkei writes.

We bring to your attention a list of the most important June events dedicated to the gaming industry.

An interview about King of Thieves; a comparison of game genres by retension; the App Annie report on the growth of Google Play indicators – this is not only in our traditional selection of the best materials for the past seven days.

The minimalistic Two Dots game from publisher Playdots Inc has been downloaded 30 million times. The project has earned more than $15 million in a year since its launch.

The focus in marketing is shifting from television to mobile. Mobile advertising budgets are growing, and soon the figure of $ 500 million will become the annual norm, says Stephen Upstone, founder of the LoopMe video advertising platform. He told about this at the Casual Connect Asia event.

Japanese companies Metaps and Hakuhodo Inc. announced a collaboration in which Metaps was able to assess the impact of television advertising on mobile app downloads.