Matteo Vallone, head of business development at Google Play, recommends developers of mobile games and applications to rely on the quality of the product and promote it through social services.

The record performance of the gaming division and the success of The Angry Birds Movie increased the company’s profit by a third compared to 2015.

As part of the Mobio Talks program, Alexey Pisarevsky, the founder of the Mobio agency, interviewed Maxim Donskikh, the president of Game Insight. We publish a transcript of the material.

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The online survival simulator in the Conan the Barbarian universe Conan Exiles took less than a month to sell 480 thousand copies.

76% of employees of game studios are forced to work beyond the established norm. And a third of them have no one paying for recycling.

Minecraft’s circulation on all platforms has exceeded 121 million copies since its release in 2011.

The Icelandic company CCP reported a 30% increase in revenue in 2016 — from $65.7 million to $86.1 million.

Finnish mobile game developer Next Games has announced plans to place $30 million worth of shares on the market.

Video streaming service Twitch will start selling games and game content this spring. Viewers will be able to buy games directly during the broadcasts of their gameplay.

Why conduct marketing research before the start of development, as well as how to choose the genre and setting of the future game, – Game Insight producer Ilya Eremeev tells on the pages of App2Top.

Irrational Games studio changed its name to Ghost Story Games. After the rebranding, the developers promise to work on “exciting stories with a deep plot.”

Analysts predict explosive revenue growth of virtual reality projects in the near future.

Sony has sold 915 thousand Playstation VR kits since the start of sales in October last year and has come close to fulfilling its own plan of 1 million devices sold within six months.

The German publisher of mobile games Flaregames announced the creation of a new incubator program Flare Accelerator.

Swedish indie developer Coffee Stain Studio has launched its own publishing house.

The Swedish company King has stopped operating its South Korean branch.

The company’s revenue from MMO projects increased by 21.2% last year and reached 11.39 billion rubles. This is stated in the preliminary report of the Mail. Ru Group on the financial results of last year.

In 2016, the average check of Apple smartphone users in the United States increased by $5 and amounted to about $40.