Game optimization is not the most popular topic. It seems as if it is believed that only geeks who are ready to spend on new gadgets annually play on mobile devices, but this is not the case.

In 2014, the Russian mobile gaming market grew by 68%. Its volume at the end of last year amounted to 8.8 billion rubles, – reports Mail.Ru Group.

Newzoo continues to regularly post reports on the most popular Android games in China. This time she has prepared a small report on the cash top for June. Let’s see which games a month ago spent the largest amount in China.

Sweden is a leading European country in the field of game development. Such conclusions were made by representatives of the GDC game developers conference based on their own research.

About half of European developers plan to release games for mobile. This is reported in a study conducted by representatives of the European branch of the GDC.

The Japanese corporation Sony has announced the launch of the crowdfunding platform First Flight. The goal of the project is to promote new business ideas of the company’s employees.

An ambitious clone of Clash of Clans from the leading designer Alpha Centauri and Rise of Nations shows not only good downloads, but also good box office results.

Over the year, the number of downloads from Google Play has grown 1.3 times, and the platform’s revenue has increased 1.4 times, App Annie reports in its latest research.

If we compare the parameters of long-term retention, it turns out that two genres achieve the best results: strategy and hidden-object, – said in his article for App2Top.ru Vasily Sabirov, Leading Analyst devtodev.com .

The mobile app market is waiting for a “perfect storm” that will potentially change the balance of power: independent teams will have more chances to earn, and large companies will stop taking “all the cream”, Pollen analysts say.

Of the $113.3 billion that the video game industry will earn in 2018, 39% will be for games for smartphones and tablets, Newzoo reports in its latest report.

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.

Recently, the SoftPressRelease PR agency published an excellent report on the state of affairs on the Russian mobile application market on the Gamasutra pages, which also affected the mobile games market. The company has prepared a version of the material in Russian for us.

According to the results of 2014 in Germany, the revenue from Google Play turned out to be more than the same from Apple’s mobile app store, App Annie reports.

How similar are the leading mobile markets to each other, – analysts of the Japanese company Metaps found out.

As it traditionally happens at the end of the month, App Annie analysts summed up the results of the mobile games market of the previous month. We have an analysis of the report in Russian.

Success in the entertainment industry is always difficult to predict. The reason is that an unpredictable and extremely complex network of social influences plays a dominant role in it. Investors struggle with this in a very obvious way: by investing in a wide portfolio of projects.

The other day, App Annie summed up the results of the year in the App Annie Index: 2014 Retrospective study. From it, you can find out not only what place Russia occupies in terms of revenue and downloads in the world, but also how the market for mobile applications and games as a whole has changed over the past year. We present his squeeze.

Analysts from the investment bank Digi-capital told how much game developers have earned this year on the sale and withdrawal of their companies for IPO, and also explained why indies, unlike average teams, will survive.