In our review: how the Flash restriction will affect the industry, why Apple is now reviewing applications faster, how much it cost to develop Vector 2 – and much more.

At the I/O 2016 conference, the search giant Google announced the ability to launch applications without downloading them. Read about this opportunity and how it will affect the advertising market in our material.

Monument Valley has brought $14.3 million to the creators in 2 years, an MMO for the Assassin’s Creed franchise will be released in China, and Slither.io scored 4 million downloads in a month, but the revenue of the game is only $ 72 thousand.

As part of the I/O conference, Google held its own “Oscar” – the award ceremony for the best Android apps Google Play Award 2016.

The authors of Unreal Engine said that it is already possible to make games for Google’s new VR platform, and showed what they themselves have done.

A feature section with applications that have not yet been officially released will appear in the Android app store. It will be called Google Play Early Access.

SOOMLA has prepared a comparative table of advertising platforms. Everything is listed here: what formats the grid supports, what statistics it provides, what it takes money for, and how the developer can withdraw the profit.

The other day Google announced a new VR platform for mobile devices – Daydream. We talked to Russian developers of VR projects and experts in this field about the platform.

Olympus Rising title was downloaded 1 million times in 2 weeks, Glu Mobile released a game with Britney Spears, and GAMEVIL finished the 1st quarter of 2015 with an operating profit of $39 million.

The other day, the Vector 2 runner was released, the downloads of the first part of which amounted to more than 100 million. We talked with Sergey Babaev, Director of Business Development at Nekki, about the development and monetization of the project.

An updated version of Titan Quest has appeared on the iPad and iPhone. Action-RPG was released on mobile 10 years after the release of the original PC version.

In projects in the three-in-a-row genre, blockers are often found. About why they are needed, what they are and in what titles they can be found – read the material on our website.

Obsidian Entertainment has confirmed that Pillars of Eternity II is in development, Glispa has bought the Brazilian marketing company Mobils, and a trilogy has been announced for the Tetris game.

The sum with six zeros and more is seen in the annual report of 1887 developers around the world. Such data was shared by experts of the Pollen VC venture fund.

Apple will open an accelerator for iOS application development (App Design and Development Accelerator) in Bangalore. The goal of the initiative is to help local startups and developers.

What are the shortcomings in the main mobile blockbuster of this year, – Mikhail Katkoff, head of FunPlus studio, analyzed. We offer a brief retelling of his work.

Two years after buying Nokia’s device manufacturing business and its patent portfolio for $7.2 billion, Microsoft is selling the business of simple mobile phones and all its assets to Taiwanese and Finnish companies for $350 million.

Recently, the time for reviewing applications in the App Store has been reduced to 1-2 days. Eric Seufert from Rovio explained what caused this.

The ChilliConnect backend and analytical platform for online and multiplatform games has reached a full release.