What kind of downloads apps have, how to increase their number, what traffic parameters to look at after buying it, – says Vera Karpova, analyst at devtodev.

Report by Anna Krizhanovskaya from Playrix. She told why traffic is needed by any studio without exception and how to buy it correctly.

The number of active users of Rocket League arcade auto football has grown from 2 to 39 thousand players per hour in two years, according to the rating service GitHyp.

Last June, the Chinese Fidget Spinner from Doodle Mobile became the most downloaded game by total downloads from the App Store and Google Play.

According to unconfirmed information, Google intends to lift the ban on the presentation of gambling games with real money bets in the Android store.

Japanese mobile developers spend from $3.5 to $9 million to create one game. These costs do not include marketing and other items of expenditure.

Where to start when you undertake the creation of the game economy of a free-play game, – Konstantin Sakhnov, director of the game department of Rocket Jump studio, told on our pages.

The Japanese gaming corporation gumi has invested $ 4.5 million in the company inXile Entertainment of game designer Brian Fargo and his new VR project.

A report by Natalia Portier from Appodeal. She spoke about the main trends of mobile monetization. How much money can advertising in the game bring? How do formats and gameplay relate? What is the difference between different advertising networks and how to properly evaluate their effectiveness?

The Corona game engine has started accepting applications from game developers to participate in the publishing program. Its participants will be helped with cross-promotion and purchase of users.

The new Jump gaming service should start working during this summer. For a monthly fee of $10, Jump users will have access to an updated library of indie games.

The monitoring company SuperData predicted the sale of 3 million copies of the Destiny 2 MMO shooter by Bungie studio on PC in the first 3 months after the release of the game.

Facebook has enabled advertisers around the world to place ads in the Messenger app.

Japanese gamers took the first place in the world in spending in Pokémon GO. The average player’s expenses in the Pokemon homeland for the year are $26 — 3 times higher than in the USA.

The Finnish forge of Supercell hits has notified users about the start of deliveries of Clash of Clans merchandise around the world.

A new mobile publisher has appeared on the Russian market – Pride Games Studio, whose total downloads for the year since its foundation have reached 17 million. How much the company is ready to invest in the development of third-party projects and on what terms it works with teams, we talked with its founder Sergey Ivanenko.

Unity Technologies has released the final version of the game engine — Unity 2017.1, which opens the next version system after Unity 5.

A report by Alexander Shilyaev from Playrix. He spoke about the experience of creating match-3 games. How to choose an idea for an element, prepare an image and bring the element to the players. What to pay attention to when designing levels, setting complexity and conducting A/B tests.

What is a good-earning strategy in the USA? How many subgenres of strategies are there? What is the number of downloads per month for Clash Royale? We answer all the questions in the new material about the American mobile games market.