The mobile version of the popular The Sims franchise generated over $15 million in 4 months after its release. The source of income was the in-game purchases of users on iOS and Android. The global release of The Sims Mobile took place on March 6, 2018.

A benchmark of mobile games, a list of the highest—grossing games in the history of iOS, as well as a selection of the most earning domestic games – this and much more in our collection of publications for the past week.

How relevant are crypto games today? How do they differ from regular video games? How is traffic attracted for them? I answered these and other questions in an interview with App2Top.ru Sergey Kopov, founder of the studio Sunday Games and 0xGames, in which he recently released the crypto game 0xUniverse.

The Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top.ru how the income of their developers is distributed by genre. She also revealed that she had paid ₽100 million to mobile developers in five months.

Amazing Korea. Here, user spending on Google Play games is not 70-80%, but as much as 94.4%. Such data was provided by the local analytical company WiseApp.

According to the estimates of the analytical company Newzoo, Taiwan’s gaming market ranks 15th in the world in terms of revenue. Local gamers will spend about $1.3 billion this year.

Former head of Wargaming Seattle Chris Taylor, creator of the Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander and Dungeon Siege series, answered questions from Reddit users, in particular, spoke about his work on a gaming platform for independent developers. We have compiled a selection of Taylor’s most interesting answers.

Todd Howard has been working at Bethesda Game Studios for a quarter of a century, he is responsible for the development of all the main projects of the studio. At the Gamelab Barcelona conference, he was awarded an award as an industry Legend. We present an extract from Howard’s speech, in which he spoke about the studio’s projects, his design principles and vision of the mobile market.

App Annie shared with App2Top.ru a list of the highest-grossing games developed by teams that were based in the post-Soviet space. The main selection criterion is that the game should have earned $25 million or more from January to June 2018. There were eleven such projects in total.

Before the end of the summer sale, Steam published a list of the best-selling and launching games of the season. What projects were included there?

In the rivalry between Fortnite and PUBG on the mobile market, the Epic Games project is still confidently winning. Fortnite Mobile has half as many downloads, but five times more revenue than its competitor.

The document is called “Lifetime Value: the main metric of the project”. The paper examines in detail what methods of calculating LTV exist and what are the pros and cons of each approach.

For Grow Beetles, the White Nights conference, which ended a couple of days ago, was very successful. The project found a well-known publisher who guaranteed the game to receive 1 million paid installations.

The new method of counting game owners on Steam, which has already been adopted by the Steam Spy service, no longer works. This possibility was eliminated by Valve itself, said the author of the method, indie developer Tyler Glaiel.

Half of the gaming teams in mobile don’t mind changing their advertising partner. Some of them consider their earnings from advertising to be low. This was told by the Clickky platform, which interviewed 430 mobile game developers.

The Indian company Kaaya Tech plans to release HoloSuit gloves and suits for virtual reality by November of this year. The minimum goal of the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign was achieved in less than a week.

App Annie revealed the results achieved by projects that, following the results of 8 years of the App Store’s existence, topped the top of the most profitable and most downloaded games on the iOS platform.

Frontier Developments refused to develop projects for other companies a few years ago and focused on publishing its own. Now the authors of RollerCoaster Tycoon and Elite are doing so well that they are considering becoming a full-fledged publisher.

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