The spread of pirated video games has contributed to a 24% increase in sales of legal copies, according to experts of the European Commission.

Chinese developer Cheetah Mobile called 2017 the “Snapchat era”: the mobile messenger enters the top mobile platforms in Europe.

Ubisoft has announced the opening of offices in Bordeaux, France, and Berlin, the capital of Germany.

In 2016, the market volume of esports competitions in Sweden amounted to $40 million, while Russia earned $35.4 million.

After the international success of Witcher 3 and Dark Souls III, the Japanese publisher Bandai Namco announced a desire to entrust more projects to European studios.

Asian users are most willing to pay for mobile games. This conclusion was reached by the Israeli company SOOMLA after studying the behavior of players in different countries.

As part of the Creative Europe program, European developers received grants totaling $3.9 million (€3.4 million). This is reported by the Gamasutra resource with reference to the press release of Creative Europe representatives.

The analytical company Newzoo said that starting in June, it plans to regularly publish monthly mobile gaming iOS tops in the United States, China and Europe.

The share of “apple” smartphones compared to 2014 increased by 1.8% in the five main markets of Europe – in England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Analysts from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech believe that the growth of Apple’s user base is due to former users of Android devices.

Last week, Apple conducted a major revision of price tags in a number of regional App Stores. The changes affected not only Russia.

The European Commission, the highest executive authority of the European Union, is concerned that applications with IAP are called free. 

The founder of the Tallinn gaming accelerator GameFounders told Pocket Gamer exactly what game developers who dream of an investor and his money should pay attention to. 

According to the German Wooga, the App Store has earned about $12 billion over the past year. The problem is that the money only comes from hit projects.

The new project from the authors of CSR and My Horse is already called by Western publications one of the most successful titles on the App Store. 

The mobile clone of The Legend of Zelda, which was developed for more than two years and distributed according to the paid model, was able to recapture the budget for the App Store in record time.

Russian Russian company GSO Event announced a Russian party before MWC 2014 due to the massive influx of Russian guests to the mobile congress this spring (more than 100 domestic companies took part in MWC 2013).

Europe is responsible for a quarter of the global mobile app economy, both in terms of consumption and production, says VisionMobile in its latest report.