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.

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.

Google has started issuing an initial degree in Android development – an associate degree. You can take an exam for it on the Internet.

Startup 1APP is developing OneOS, a cloud–based operating system that runs any application, including games, without installation.

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.

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.

Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor for Pocket Gamer, discussed the unique aspects of level design in the Super Mario series within the Game Maker’s Toolkit video series. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. Enjoy.

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.

In Russia, the Federal Tax Service (FTS) announced the registration of 18 companies. Including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Wargaming, Valve and Nintendo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The developer of Candy Crush Saga bought the analytical and marketing service Omniata for an undisclosed amount.

The authors of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale admitted that they underestimated the competition in the freeplay games market and worked incorrectly with the players.

On February 14, White Nights will host a session with Chet Faliszek, one of Valve’s leading screenwriters and a VR specialist on the Steam platform. We invite him to ask interesting questions so that he can answer them publicly at the conference.

With the release of iOS 10.3, developers will be allowed to respond to user comments in the App Store. How this will affect the work with the audience, App2Top was told by representatives of ZeptoLab, Mail.Ru Games, IGG, devtodev and Publisher Wanted.

In Russia, the latest generation of Sony consoles is the leader in sales. But the Xbox One game console has recently been showing great growth rates.

Hamburg-based company Goodgame Studios will lay off 200 people. The company explains the decision by increasing competition in the market of free-play games.