Sales of Apple Watch smartwatches on the eve of the holidays have grown and reached record values. This is the best week in the history of the product,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told Reuters in an interview.

The prevalence of the seventh Android OS in the three months since its release reached 0.4%. The information was shared by Google.

In November of this year, an average of 792 new games were published in the App Store every day. Such data was shared by the Pocket Gamer resource.

Users are 30-40% more likely to click on native ads than on any other. This was announced by the startup YouAppi based on the results of data from user acquisition campaigns on its own OneRun platform.

In Facebook analytics for applications, statistics on the time of day and the division into time zones have appeared.

Mark Brown, indie developer and editor of Pocket Gamer resource, told how coding inspires the creation of non-banal puzzle games as part of the video cycle Game Maker’s Toolkit. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.

Tanya Evdokimenko, who headed the Playrix office in Kiev, announced her departure from the company. Evdokimenko launches his own consulting firm.

What is the difference between hardcore mobile strategies from each other, why and who plays them, as well as what difficulties their developers face, – said Stas Savvinykh, CEO of Novosibirsk Friday’s Games, in an interview with App2Top.

Digital sales for October this year increased by 14%. The growth happened thanks to a series of AAA releases.

The Google Play app store has published international and local lists of games that it considered the most popular in the outgoing 2016. In Russia, the main award went to Clash Royale.

On the morning of December 2, Los Angeles hosted The Game Awards ceremony, an analogue of the Oscar in the gaming industry. The game of the year was named Overwatch, the best mobile game of the year – Pokémon GO.

From January 1, Google Play pays value added tax (VAT) from payments in Russia. In this regard, prices for end users will increase.

The authors of World of Tanks bought the Boomlagoon studio and opened a mobile development office in Helsinki.

This October, the turnover of the Russian market of MMO games for PC increased by a quarter compared to the same month last year.

The heroic fighting game MARVEL Contest of Champions (Kabam) turned out to be the highest-grossing iOS app in North America on November 28, ahead of Game of War (MZ) and Clash Royale (Supercell).

The policy regarding marketing companies and developers encouraging users to leave “false ratings and reviews” is being tightened.

HTML5 developers interested in creating games for the new Facebook platform will be able to get money for it from Big Viking Games.

Over the current year, more than 4,000 games have been published in the Steam digital game store. This is more than a third of the total number of projects on Steam.

A new version of the Unity game engine – Unity 5.5 – has become available to developers. The key innovation is full support for HoloLens.