It took more than 500 days for Clash of Clans to earn $600 million. Pokémon GO scored this amount in less than 100 days.

As a result of the third quarter, China became the largest market in the world in terms of earnings from the iOS mobile app store. In second place is the USA, in third — Japan,” App Annie reports in its latest report.

With the support of GOG.com (entertainment platform and video game store, which is part of CD PROJEKT) website App2Top.ru continues to analyze which PC games are in the greatest demand.

Mark Brown, indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, explained why the “feeling of the game” is a necessary component of a platformer or action and how to strengthen this feeling within the video cycle Game Maker’s Toolkit. With the author’s permission, we have translated the material and prepared a text version.

The Japanese company Nintendo has published a video in which it showed the functionality of its new console, named the Nintendo Switch (previously it was referred to as the Nintendo NX).

Affectiva’s service, which allows you to read the emotions of players in real time, has received integration with Unity. Companies with an income of less than $1 million per year can use it for free.

The main reason for the sharp decline in interest in the game, as a rule, is the unsatisfied demand for new content, so it is important to release it as soon as possible (preferably 3-5 weeks after release), the Nielsen analytical company reports in its latest study.

The publisher Evoland has announced a platform that allows you to make playable ads based on mobile native games.

Eric Seufert, former vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio and a partner at the consulting agency Heracles Media, spoke about how the game was monetized through advertising Flip Diving.

The other day, the Android Developers Blog published a list of points that you need to remember so that the application is not removed from the Google Play platform. We present a brief version of the material about these very moments.

Last Thursday, immediately after the release, the Mushroom Wars 2 game from the St. Petersburg team Zillion Whales received a world feature. We talked with the authors of the game about the project, the indicators of previous titles, as well as what Apple’s promotion gave.

The domestic developer and publisher of children’s mobile games “Interactive Cartoon” reported that during the year downloads of all its games reached the mark of 5 million.

Stanislav Kostyuk, a game designer at Ubisoft, told in his blog exactly how the narrative structure “The Way of the Hero”, which he came up with Joseph Campbell, embodied in the Journey game from the studio Thatgamecompany.

What the authors of Lost Socks expect from Steam, what kind of retention the new game Insight has, how Playrix drew the main character for its last game — about this and much more in our traditional digest for last week.

In August, the G2A marketplace launched a program to work with developers and publishers, within which they were able to independently sell keys to their games. In conversation with App2Top.ru G2A business development specialist Dave Traeger admitted that in the future the platform also plans to promote the best projects.

About the most trending Steam games — in our report. This time the Top 10 is headed by Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location.

On October 13, the St. Petersburg division of Wargaming announced the second enrollment in the Wargaming Academy educational project. We talked to the company about this initiative.

The experience of launching a children’s game that has received a feature on the App Store and Google Play, with the editors App2Top.ru Sergey Kopov, who acted as an independent developer within the framework of this project, shared this.

What is good about the Half-Life 2 tutorial – as part of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle, Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.