Mobile advertising with the ability to try out a game or an application is gaining popularity among advertisers, according to a study by the analytical firm AdColony.

The business conference for the gaming industry White Nights St.Petersburg will begin on June 14. The event will host round tables on various topics, including games for children. We invite our readers to ask the participants of the discussion a question. Two authors of the most interesting questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

The American publisher Take-Two Interactive Software has acquired the rights to the educational space simulator Kerbal Space Program.

The Ukrainian social casino operator Murka has tripled its revenues for the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same quarter last year.

The Swedish indie company Stillfront Group has acquired the Irish studio eRepublik Labs, known for the Age of Lords mobile strategy — the ideological heiress of the Game of War studio Machine Zone.

The revenues of the Forge of Empire mobile strategy for the entire existence exceeded € 250 million ($ 279 million), according to the German developer studio Innogames.

Yesterday, May 30, HeroCraft released a large-scale story supplement to Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf. In honor of this event, we talked with the team about the success of the game two and a half years after its release, the user price for tactical strategies and the first results on Steam.

We continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert, founder of VALUES VALUE.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has signed a deal with Time Warner to include characters from the DC Comics universe in its mobile MOBA Strike of Kings.

Vietnamese publisher of mobile and online games VNG Corp has signed a preliminary agreement with Nasdaq on the initial public offering of shares on the US stock market.

Mobile developer and publisher Shoal Games from British Anguilla has acquired a license for the Moomin Trolls brand.

The Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment held an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock exchange on May 29.

Mobile games with the highest number of downloads had a better retention rate than the highest-grossing titles.

The business conference for the gaming industry White Nights St.Petersburg will begin on June 14. The event will include round tables on various topics, including HTML5. We invite our readers to ask the participants of the discussion a question. Two authors of the most interesting questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Square Enix has moved the development of the Final Fantasy VII remake inside the company under the leadership of Naoki Hamaguchi, who previously created the Mobius Final Fantasy mobile role-playing game.

Last week, the Yaroslavl team One Dream received a $20,000 grant from Epic Games to support the game Be:Brave. We talked with the team’s lead developer, Mikhail Vaksman, about the history of the project, why they switched from Unity to Unreal and which publisher they are looking for now.

The Chinese corporation Rastar Group, specializing in the production of toy cars under the license of luxury brands, consolidated its gaming business under a new brand – Rastar Games.

The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) has invested 120 million rubles in the startup Antilatency, which develops solutions for virtual and augmented reality devices.

Bandai Namco Media Corporation and Drecom, a web platform for social games, announced the joint creation of the BXD game studio.