On average, an iPhone owner in the US spends $35 a year on games and apps. Such data for 2015 was shared by the analytical company Sensor Tower.

The Kotaku resource talked about the difficulties Darkest Dungeon faced after it got into Steam Early Access. We share the translation of the article.

How to properly soft lunch, what is a casual midcore, how to promote games in Asia – we wrote about this and much more last week. A list of the most interesting materials in our traditional Monday collection.

Finnish studio Supercell has announced a cyber-tournament on Clash Royale. The competition will be the first official event of the game.

How to create multiplayer maps for mobile shooters correctly, where to start, what tricks to resort to, and what to remember — App2Top.ru told Pixonic game designer Alexander Linchik.

The analytical company App Annie told about the alignment of forces in the world gaming tops for the previous month. In February, the Color Switch game hit the tops of downloads on Android and iOS, Activision Blizzard got the first place in downloads and revenue on Android, and the first place in the iOS box office top traditionally remained for Clash of Clans.

More than six billion dollars a month are earned in the world of digital games. This is 10% more than a year earlier, — the research company Superdata reports in its latest report.

What to keep in mind when promoting games in China, Korea and Japan, — App2Top.ru Egor Karpov, a consultant for the promotion of mobile applications, told us.

The past year has become a landmark for mobile marketing. Advertising spending in the United States increased by 174%, mobile overtook PC for the first time in terms of marketing costs, – such information was published by the analytical company Smaato.

We are finishing posting a video from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. The latest video is a report by Flaregames lead producer Miikka Luotio on working with small teams.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is a conversation with PlayRaven CEO Lasse Seppanen (Lasse Seppanen). By the way, his studio recently released the Winterstate game, which Apple has been aggressively promoting for the last week.

One of the Reddit readers asked the community how to make an indie game if you don’t know how to draw. We tell you what came of it.

How many players pay in free-to-play, which IAPs are the most popular, and which ones bring the most money — this and not only was shared by Swrve in its latest research. About the most important of it, — we tell on the pages App2Top.ru .

The German advertising company Glispa announced the acquisition of the Russian mediation platform MoneyTap. The startup is being relaunched under a new name — Ampiri, and the office will move from Russia to Berlin. According to the CEO of the former MoneyTap, the project will remain “fairly autonomous.”

The Japanese company Sony Computer Entertainment is creating a new game company ForwardWorks, which will develop mobile games based on projects for the PlayStation console.What kind of titles will they be, when to wait for them, is the company going to only make games “based on motives” or will it also take up porting?

The game designer from DIGIT Om Tandon (Om Tandon) in a blog told how he sees the next stage of development of the casual audience. We have translated the text and are sharing it.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Dmitry Martynov and Tobias Knoke from Google. They told how using Google Play tools you can improve engagement in Android games.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next in line is the performance of representatives of Finnish Game Jam Annakaisa Kultima (Annakaisa Kultima) and Tatu Laine (Tatu Laine).

Based on the latest research by Opera Mediaworks, we assumed that today it makes sense for developers to release updates for major sporting events.