Midcore runner with Vector 2 parkour from the Moscow company Nekki in less than two months since its release has crossed the threshold of 10 million downloads on Google Play alone.

The Japanese SoftBank Corporation has acquired ARM, one of the world’s largest developers and licensors of mobile chipsets. The value of the transaction was £24 billion.

Why traditional retention rates are outdated, how to properly localize games, how much Nonstop Knight earns from advertising – in our selection of the most interesting materials from last week.

The analytical company GameAnalytics is being bought by the Chinese, a Disney three-in-a-row with emojis has been launched, and Batman: Arkham Underworld has appeared on iOS.

The other day there was a worldwide release of a new game from Outfit7 – an endless runner in the extremely popular universe of the Talking Tom series. About the project – in our analysis.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Tatiana Mikhalevskaya from GS Gamekit. In her speech, she talked about how the GS Gamekit Android game console was launched on the Russian market.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Vyacheslav Taraskin from Unity. In his speech, he spoke about the monetization of mobile applications.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton uses the Pokemon Go game in the election campaign.

A selection of gaming industry news for today: Talking Tom has already 4.5 billion downloads, Nintendo announces a retro console, Odnoklassniki launches an entertainment messenger.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. Next up is one of the most important reports of the conference – from Justin Rapp from App Annie. In his speech, he told a lot about the Russian mobile games market.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Alexey Burdyko from Game Show. In his speech, he spoke about the history of streaming platforms.

Painting by Duncan Jones (Duncan Jones) it will never pay off at the global box office, despite the fact that its collections have already amounted to $ 430 million.

Danny Hernandez, a data processing and analysis specialist at Twitch, has published a large study revealing how much streaming can affect the business performance of modern games. A short version of the note is in Russian.

We are trying a new format – developer diaries. As part of it, the ComonGames team will make its debut with a series of stories about the development of The Unknown quest, which, by the way, at White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 received the Grand Prix as the best project of the Indie Game Cup competition.

A new evening, a new selection of fresh news: The Hotline Miami series received another comic book series, Gamevil released another reading of Heroes Charge, and Square Enix helped indie developers collect $1 million.

The company-developer of one of the most popular game engines on the market – Unity – received at the new stage of financing the amount of $ 181 million.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Sabrina Carmona from King. In her speech, she talked about building a successful team using Agile methods.

The designer of ustwo game projects – Monument Valley and Land’s End – has launched his own game development studio, which, according to the studio’s LinkedIn page, “will remain in the hearts and minds.”

Monetization in Nonstop Knight is built with an eye to earning from advertising, and not from IAP, – says Eric Seufert and estimates how much the game can earn on this.