The mobile platform for esports games Skillz reported doubling its revenue to $100 million over the past 8 months.

Danish studio SYBO has announced the hiring of Hollywood producer Sandra Schwartz and Star Wars Rebels screenwriter Brent Friedman to work on Subway Surfers series.

Sales of the multiplayer action game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds exceeded 2 million copies in just over a month.

The Instant Games gaming platform is coming out of beta. Facebook has announced the expansion of its audience and the launch of new functionality.

The Ashes of Creation role-playing MMO project raised $1 million in the first two days of the Kickstarter campaign.

The income of the author of Angry Birds for January-March 2017 amounted to €66.3 million. This is 94.4% more than a year earlier.

Commercials about sports games have the highest conversion to downloads among the game categories. It is 50%. This is reported in the Mobile Advertising Benchmark Report by the advertising platform Vungle.

Despite the May holidays, we continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert, founder of VALUES VALUE.

The Phoenix Point tactical strategy of XCOM creator Julian Gollop raised the required $500 thousand in 7 days on the crowdfunding platform Fig.

Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG) has brought its stake in the German mobile developer and publisher InnoGames to 51%.

The author of the scripts of Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead, Chet Falisek, left Valve, where he worked for 12 years.

The cost of displaying ads on iOS in March of this year rose by 46% compared to February, according to the marketing company Fiksu DSP.

The English version of the Monster Strike mobile battler will be completely closed from August 1 this year, according to the Japanese company Mixi.

Why it is not necessary to simplify the mechanics of movement in games, — Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told within the framework of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.

Sales of the racing game Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Nintendo Switch on the day of release on April 28 reached 459 thousand copies, according to Nintendo.

Super Mario Run brings Nintendo less revenue than Fire Emblem Heroes, despite a tenfold superiority in downloads.

The volume of sales of Capcom products for the 2017 fiscal year amounted to $782.5 million.

The White Nights conference will be held in St. Petersburg from June 14 to 15. The event will host an exhibition of game developers, where stands are given to teams for free.

AppsFlyer analytical service told about the average revenue per user in mobile strategies.