Geolocation mobile game about Pokemon from Niantic studio earned $950 million from July to December 2016.

The top ten world leaders in MAU among games by the end of 2016 included projects such as Words With Friends, Color Switch and 8 Ball Pool.

Last year, mobile app publishers App Store and Google Play earned $ 35 billion. Taking into account third-party Android stores and advertising, they received $89 billion in 2016. Most of the money came from the games.

The visibility and position in the search results of the App Store and Google Play are influenced by 10 factors, ASOdesk claims in its research.

It costs $4.07 to attract a user to the game today. In order for the player to become a paying one, you will have to pay $50.69 already. Liftoff advertising network told about this in the report on trends in user purchases.

Japanese developer Hidetaka Suehiro, known for the adventure game D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die, announced the launch of his own indie studio White Owls.

The founder of Steam entered the Top 400 richest Americans according to Forbes. His fortune was estimated at $4.1 billion.

The authors of the Angry Birds series are launching a new studio. She will work in the capital of Great Britain – London.

Android developers have been able to track payments through the Google Play Developer Console.

The former lead artist of Angry Birds created a game in three weeks that earned $24,000 in a week.

The fastest growing segment of the mobile games market is Southeast Asia. The largest countries in the region are growing by an average of 45.7%, according to the analytical company Newzoo.

Today, January 13, Nintendo held a large–scale presentation of its new console – the Nintendo Switch. She spoke in detail about the possibilities and future games of the platform.

The Russian-Swedish publisher and developer of G5 sued the Russian studio MyTona in connection with non-fulfillment of obligations.

The developers of the hit three-in-a-row from Jam City earn $400 million a year on their projects. In 2017, they plan to enter the stock market.

The Russian value added tax on Steam was included in the price of the product: the store deducts the tax not from users, but from itself and developers.

One of the main box office hits on PC and consoles in 2016 – a project about radio–controlled cars kicking a soccer ball – took a new milestone – 25 million registered players.

Developer and publisher Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has taken on serious cuts. The company is closing a studio in Bellevue and laying off some employees from three American offices.

In 2001, significantly more cool games were released than in 2016, according to Metacritic estimates.

The Japanese company GungHo, 8 months after the release of the Chinese version of Puzzle & Dragons, is going to close it.