May is over, spring is on the nose, and we have a traditional selection of the best materials for the past week.
The other day – as part of the report on the financial results of the first quarter – Gameloft described Dungeon Hunter 5 as “the most successful release in the history of the company in terms of box office results at the start.”
Interview: Microsoft sells Xbox controllers under the Shadow Fight 2 franchise
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.
Threes! removed from Google Play for being mentioned in tags 2048 (and then returned)
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.
Rock Entertainment: we got into the gaming Top 5 without investing a penny in marketing
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.
App Annie: Gaming index for March 2015
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.
Infinario: Viewing charts won’t make your game better
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.
Cap advises: what should I do if the keywords don’t work?
Jonathan Raveh is the director of the Department of Cooperation and Public Relations at Appnext, which owns the marketing platform of the same name. In his blog on the Gamasutra resource, he told why keywords are no longer a promotion tool – and how to solve this problem.