During the week of global promotion on Google Play, the game from the Russian developer Pixonic received a million downloads.

What is important to remember when developing quests, — Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told 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.

Former employees of Techland, CD Projekt Red and IO Interactive founded the studio Strange New Things in Poland.

GitHyp published the top five most popular games on Twitch at the end of last year. There are no indie games in the tops. There are few newcomers.

The Google platform briefly described how the features introduced into the games affected their performance. The story was published as part of a series of videos about developers for Android.

The French publisher Ubisoft announced the purchase of the studio FreeStyleGames from Activision. The studio is known for DJ Hero and multiplatform Guitar Hero Live.

According to unofficial data, the chemical giant from China acquired the Slovenian developer and publisher of Outfit7 games for € 1 billion.

devtodev analytical service has released a 34-page tutorial on how to properly evaluate and conduct promotions for virtual goods in games.

During the airtime of American television channels, gaming companies spent $85.8 million in the last month of 2016.

The authors of Limbo and INSIDE did not divide the company. As a result of the conflict, one of the founders of the company was paid $7.2 million to leave.

The authors of Magic: The Gathering have created a new development studio, Digital Games Studio, which will rethink the company’s digital products, and a digital publishing division.

Game developers should not take up the creation of esports games for mobile platforms,” a Twitch representative said at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017.

A round table on virtual reality will be held at the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. App2Top and Nevosoft offer to come up with questions for its participants. The authors of the best questions will receive a free premium ticket to the conference.

Geolocation mobile game about Pokemon from Niantic studio earned $950 million from July to December 2016.

The top ten world leaders in MAU among games by the end of 2016 included projects such as Words With Friends, Color Switch and 8 Ball Pool.

Last year, mobile app publishers App Store and Google Play earned $ 35 billion. Taking into account third-party Android stores and advertising, they received $89 billion in 2016. Most of the money came from the games.

The visibility and position in the search results of the App Store and Google Play are influenced by 10 factors, ASOdesk claims in its research.

It costs $4.07 to attract a user to the game today. In order for the player to become a paying one, you will have to pay $50.69 already. Liftoff advertising network told about this in the report on trends in user purchases.

Japanese developer Hidetaka Suehiro, known for the adventure game D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die, announced the launch of his own indie studio White Owls.