Money February 8, 2017 The developer of word games received $1 million for the purchase of traffic Word games remain a popular genre on social and mobile platforms. Brazilian Cupcake Entertainment, specializing in similar projects, received investments of $ 1 million.
Industry February 8, 2017 The most popular game on PlayStation 4 by the end of January was ARK: Survivor’s Pack Sony has published the tops of the most downloaded and sold games on PlayStation consoles for January. ARK: Survivor’s Pack from Studio Wildcard was in the greatest demand last month.
Money February 7, 2017 InnoGames earned €130 million in 2016 German developer InnoGames reported earnings for the past year. The company’s revenues for the 12 months of 2016 amounted to €130 million.
Industry February 7, 2017 Are indies running back to the big studios? The story of several indie developers who have returned to work in large companies,” Gamasutra shared. We have prepared a version of the material in Russian. We share.
Marketing February 7, 2017 The average age of a paying player in Clash Of Clans is 33 years The age of paying players differs little from project to project, but the gender differentiation of the paying audience strongly depends on the type of game.
Industry February 6, 2017 Every third mobile game on a smartphone is an action movie 30% of game downloads in 2016 were for projects in the action genre. Similar games also hold users much better than puzzles.
Money February 6, 2017 MZ, Top Games, Nintendo and Wargaming could spend $5 million each on advertising at the Super Bowl MZ, Top Games, Nintendo and Wargaming, among others, promoted their projects at the final game for the title of champion of the US National Football League. Each of the companies could pay more than $5 million for airtime alone.
Money February 6, 2017 Starbreeze Studios invested $8 million in Psychonauts 2 The author of Payday became the publisher and the largest investor of Psychonauts 2, Timothy Schafer’s new game.
Money February 6, 2017 On the first day of sales, Fire Emblem Heroes earned more than Clash Royale Nintendo’s first mobile release in 2017 proved to be very successful. The company’s new game, Fire Emblem Heroes, earned $2.9 million on its first day of sales. This is more than Clash Royale received on the day of release.
Marketing February 2, 2017 Case study: promotion of the game “Bablomet” using the Appbooster platform Comprehensive promotion with the help of motivated traffic increases the visibility of the application in the store, which allows you to get additional organics. An example is the game “Bablomet”. Getting to the top of the category, to the first place of a search query and a query in Trending Searches allowed simultaneously attracting 10,000 organic users with a CPI of 14 rubles.
Development February 2, 2017 Google has introduced a certification program for novice Android developers Google has started issuing an initial degree in Android development – an associate degree. You can take an exam for it on the Internet.
Industry February 2, 2017 1APP is working on a cloud-based Android system Startup 1APP is developing OneOS, a cloud–based operating system that runs any application, including games, without installation.
Conferences February 1, 2017 Contest: ask DragonSoul publisher a question about working with developers and win a ticket to White Nights Prague One of the guests of White Nights Prague 2017 will be Philipp Karstaedt from GREE. He will talk about the conflicts that arise between publishers and developers, as well as how they can be avoided. For the best questions to Philip, we give two premium tickets to the conference.
Industry February 1, 2017 During the year, the market of desktop MMO games grew in Russia by 4% Russian players spent 4% more in online games in 2016 compared to the results of the previous year. The largest growth occurred in November-December.
Industry January 30, 2017 Olga Abashova on how the processes of creating games in G5 Entertainment are built Why are there two producers on the project, what is wrong with product marketing and why a Wiki is needed during development, – App2Top.ru Olga Abashova, head of the Kaliningrad office of G5 Entertainment, told.
Industry January 27, 2017 The tax service has registered Google, Apple and Microsoft In Russia, the Federal Tax Service (FTS) announced the registration of 18 companies. Including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Wargaming, Valve and Nintendo.
Industry January 27, 2017 The main advantage of the “family” development is the motivation of the team: an interview with the founder of Action Forms and Tatem Games On January 23, an HD edition of the classic Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter was released on Steam on Greenlight. On this occasion, we talked about the history of the game with Igor Karev, responsible for its creation and reissue.
Money January 27, 2017 $30.3 billion was spent on gaming companies in 2016 In the gaming industry, $30.3 billion worth of transactions were carried out in 2016. Most of them came from mergers and acquisitions, and the smaller part came from investments.
Platforms January 26, 2017 The game section will appear in the Windows settings As part of a major Windows 10 update, Microsoft will introduce a number of new features aimed at gamers: a gaming section in the settings, streaming from the system, a game panel and a game mode that increases the performance of games.
Development January 26, 2017 Amazon has released a new version of the free Lumberyard game engine The company has released the Lumberyard Beta 1.7 beta, which includes 403 improvements and fixes. The main focus in the updated version is on the UI and UX of the engine.