The Turkish mobile market is experiencing a real heyday. Local developers receive record investments for the country, and the games created by them become world hits. However, this was not always the case. The Rest of the World edition delved into the history of the Turkish gaming industry and talked about how Istanbul turned into the world capital of casual gaming.

Analysts from GameRefinery told about the main trends of casual games this year. Developers are looking for new ways to engage users and actively add elements from other genres to projects. Among them are meta-gameplay, social functions and seasonal passes.Meta elements

KPMG consulting firm has presented a report on the gaming industry in India. According to analysts, by 2025, the turnover of the local market will double and approach the $4 billion mark. At the same time, the main audience will continue to play on mobile devices.Key data from the report

Minsk—based Melsoft has launched its own farm – Family Island. It has been in development for more than three years.

It seems that guild mechanics are now the lot of not only midcore projects. The opportunity to join a guild is increasingly being added to casual titles.

Hyper-casual games have appeared on the market not so long ago, but they are rapidly bypassing related casual games in many ways. The current metrics of these genres were compared by GameAnalytics specialist Ivan Bravo. And he also assessed how the indicators of hyper-casual correlate with the successes of more established mobile genres.

Israeli developer Playtika, known for its social casinos, has created its first internal division. It was named Games Lab.

German mobile developer Wooga ended 2017 with a profit, and the company’s revenues have increased by 40% over the past 12 months. The main source of revenue was the mobile “hidden object” June’s Journey, released in April last year.

Mobile developer and publisher G5 Entertainment has acquired the rights to two hidden object games from Artifex Mundi studio — Nightmares from the Deep and Kate Malone. G5 paid $600k for them.

The casual puzzle Bubble Shooter by the Israeli studio Ilyon Dynamics has gained more than 50 million downloads on iOS and Android. The game was released in 2015 and is distributed according to the frituplay model.

How the cash game top is distributed between three types of genres (casual, midcore and hardcore), the startup Playliner told in its research.

The casual runner Rodeo Stampede by Featherweight Games studio has gained more than 80 million downloads in 13 months since its release.