Why the paid game didn’t fire, the analysis of the game cycle in a mobile sports simulator, the list of the main conferences in March – this and much more in our digest for the past week.

About working with the community within the framework of game services; problems of Midnight Star; cliches in games – and much more in our digest of the main materials for the past week.

Text broadcasts from Winter Nights 2015; secrets of portfolio investments from App Annie; the latest innovations in the App Store – about this and much more in our traditional digest for the week.

We missed the beginning of the week due to the conference, now we will catch up a little. So, let’s remember in a nutshell what we had last week and move on.

Interviews with the authors of Skyward, a list of sites to which you can send the game for review, a visual guide to setting tasks for game designers – this is not only in our digest for the past week. 

How to develop games in the match-3 genre correctly, why publishers are coming back into fashion, what can go wrong when working on a game – about this and much more in our digest for last week.

Last week we released a huge analysis of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood; detailed material on how much you can earn on Windows Phone; a list of all gaming conferences this month and much, much more.

In the central materials of last week, read: which genres were leading in the App Store in the outgoing year, how much the Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft game will earn, how to promote your application to the top App Store, and also what the premiere of the Temple Run title for virtual reality helmets can teach the game designer. 

In the central materials of the previous week, read: the authors of Monument Valley, TwoDots and Syberia will appear at the Winter Nights concert, Zynga released a runner with Looney Tunes heroes, a Korean startup from the creator of Counter Strike Online received $ 700 thousand for a first-person shooter, Viber has its own gaming platform, and Google has published a list of the best games of the outgoing year. 

Amazon is going to release premium mobile games, the shareware model is a thing of the past according to the co-founder of Self Aware Games, Facebook, following Apple, sums up and names the best titles of the year – all this and much more in the selection of the central materials of last week.

In the selection of central materials of the first week of December: how Beeline advertising increased Shadow Fight downloads by 2 times, why go to the Winter Night conference, what analytical services top applications use, how not to let your team “turn sour” after launching the project, and other useful information.

Central materials of last week: how the case ended “Mail.ru against the tax service”, how to make a good sequel, according to what principles to choose a card format for a casual game, for how much to sell a paid application, the principle of pricing in free-to-play games, and much more.

Our selection of the best materials for the past week consists mainly of practical tips. What is the secret of a successful application? How to promote an indie game on social networks? What is the difference between the American mobile market and the Russian one? How much does it cost to launch a mobile app in the USA? The answers to these and other questions are in our weekly issue.

Thursday, which means it’s time to watch the new App Store. There is a lot of space and a lot of pixel art in the release today.

Last Monday we, as well as the whole country, were on vacation, and therefore this time you will find a selection of the most striking events / materials from the last two weeks at once.

As (almost) always on Thursdays – we are just galloping through the main game novelties this week.

Unity has replaced the CEO; a mobile game about Kim Kardashian earned $51 million; mobile games for 2014 will earn $25 billion. About this and much more in our digest for the past week. 

In our release selection today: the first free-to-play from the authors of Max Payne, a hard-boiled domestic bagel and not only.