Mobile device users in South Korea mostly play on them for 46 minutes a day.

Oxford Exient, known for Angry Birds Go!, in March reduced 60% of the working staff in its studio in the town of Royal Leamington Spa (an hour by car from Oxford and two from London).

Downloads of the Hooked app in the App Store and Google Market increased from 336 thousand to 2.2 million in 5 months.

Creative Director and lead designer of XCOM tactical strategy Jake Solomon believes that failures in game development can bring future success closer.

Sergey Babaev, Vice President of Strategy at Moscow Nekki, is leaving the company.

The creative director of Assassin’s Creed 3 and Far Cry 4, Alex Hutchinson, has announced his departure from Ubisoft.

Briefly about the most important materials of last week in our traditional digest.

After 14 months of softlonch, Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare, a strategy from the Ulyanovsk studio Mobirate, was released. App2Top.ru I talked to its executive director Anton Belov.

Polish studio CD Project RED reported that it registered the word “Cyberpunk” as a trademark solely for the sake of protecting the rights to its own project “Cyberpunk 2077”.

We have updated the list of gaming conferences and central industrial events on the site. We have contributed about 30 events that will be held this year from April to November.

The CEO of the studio that developed Pokémon GO considers VR games to be a threat to modern society.

According to the report of the Institute of Modern Media, in 2016, the virtual reality market in Russia amounted to 1.2 billion rubles.

According to SuperData, the global virtual reality market totaled $1.8 billion last year.

How mail services function and look like in the highest–grossing mobile games of American tops, – App2Top.ru the Playliner company told.

The total number of downloads of applications of the Russian company “Interactive Cartoon” exceeded 10 million.

At the end of March, Armor Age: Tank Wars, a mobile RTS with a difficult fate, entered the open beta testing stage. About the history of the project and the features of its development App2Top.ru the project manager Ilya Denbrov told.

MZ (formerly Machine Zone) has launched Satori, an open data aggregator. It systematizes information from all over the Internet and provides it to developers.

On April 3, the racing mobile game Nitro Nation, developed by Tallinn Creative Mobile, turned 3 years old. During this time, the game was downloaded by 30 million users.

Almost 90% of game developers constantly or periodically work beyond the time stipulated in the contract.