The Dutch developer of mobile and web games Vasco Games has reported a billion downloads of its applications.

The fritupley hidden “Mysterious House” was installed more than 50 million times. In honor of this event App2Top.ru I talked with Maxim Donskikh, president of Game Insight, about the history of the game and its genre.

The Israeli company TabTale, specializing in the development and publication of mobile games for children, has announced that it has crossed the threshold of 1 billion total downloads.

Niantic’s Pokemon game revenues have grown significantly since its release in Japan. The total downloads of the game have also grown seriously recently. According to various estimates, they range from 60 million to 75 million.

In less than a month since its release, the Angry Birds 2 mobile game has been downloaded more than 50 million times.

The minimalistic runner, created and published by an independent team consisting of only three people, once again proved that mobile device users love easy-to-learn, but difficult-to-play games.

Muscovites from ZeptoLab announced the release of King of Thieves on Google Play, and also talked about its downloads in the first weeks.

The detective mobile game in the genre “I’m looking for” Agent Alice from the Germans from Wooga in the first days after the release is downloaded at a rate of 800 thousand installations per day.

Electronic Arts boasted of downloads of its latest SimCity BuildIt time manager: in the first weeks after the release, the game not only got into the Top 5 free games in 100 countries, but also reached the mark of 15.5 million downloads. 

On January 5, ustwo announced in its Twitter feed that most of the installations of the Monument Valley game were made illegally. 

For 11 months since the release of the racing arcade game Angry Birds Go! scored 107 million downloads, – reports Rovio.

Total downloads of the Doodle God series of games reached the figure of 150 million. A third of them were collected only in the last year.

Yesterday, at the App Summit 2014 conference, it became known that the user base of three Game Insight games released as separate distributions for Microsoft platforms totals 5 million.

King reported that in the year since the release of Candy Crush Saga has gained 500 million installations. The number of sessions played exceeded 150 billion. 

Three months, the flight is normal. Gameloft said that the Despicable Me: Minion Rush runner continues to be actively downloaded. 

Downloads from the MIUI app store, embedded in Xiaomi‘s Android phone firmware, reached a billion a year after launch. According to Xiaomi, its store is among the five largest of the 200 available in China.

The endless runner based on the cartoon of the same name (more precisely, its second part, which will be released in Russia only on August 15) shows excellent results around the world. 

Today, the Korean company announced that it has surpassed the 300 million total downloads from around the world. The company has received a third of them in the last seven months.