We are mastering the genre of harmful advice. We translated an article from the Gamasutra resource, where they tell us how to ignore the testers’ reviews correctly.

How much time players spend on mobile games per week, what is the average ARPPU in Japan and the USA, where players learn about new games, what makes them make purchases – the answers to these and not only questions were given by the research company EEDAR in its voluminous material.

That we didn’t have time, but without which the picture of the day would be incomplete.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is a speech by Dmitry Plushevsky, CEO of DaSuppa. The topic of his report sounded like this: “Pre-installations of mobile applications in factories.”

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is the performance Irina Tripapina, Director of International Development at myTarget (Mail.ru Group). The topic of her report was: “Attracting users in Russia: useful information from the largest publisher of mobile games.”

Epic Games has pleased with a fresh update of the Unreal Engine. There are not a lot of changes and they cannot be called very significant, but this time a lot of chips were introduced specifically for mobile game developers.

Developers will be able to submit the application for external testing through TestFlight 2000 testers.

The developers of one of the highest-grossing (if not the highest-grossing) mobile games have released a new project. Arnold Schwarzenegger became the face of the novelty.

J.J. Abrams (J.J. Abrams) said that his film company Bad Robot, together with the studio Chair, is working on the game Spyjinx, focused on both PC and mobile devices.

The Gamasutra resource has published tips for level designers from Geoff Ellenor from Ubisoft Montréal. We share the translation.

In the “shareware” game for 3DS, Nintendo explained in detail to users why they are required to pay.

Russian Internet giant Mail.Ru Group today, on November 12, announced the launch of the free myTracker mobile analytics system.

Mobile games jointly developed by Nintendo and DeNA will be shareware, – said the CEO of the latter. This statement contradicts the words of the president of Nintendo.

We didn’t have time to write about three important releases and one report today. Now we pay attention to them. Don’t miss Zodiac, Star Wars Battlefront Companion, Land’s End, as well as information about how much the most profitable gaming company in the world earns in three months.

Rovio is a solid forge of frames. Today, you are unlikely to meet a Finnish team whose employees have not previously worked on Angry Birds. Epic Owl Studio, which released the Starside Arena game yesterday, is no exception.

In his speech at the Finnish Slush conference, Unity founder David Helgason said that VR is a very risky business.

As part of a round table at the Slush 2015 conference, which opened today in Helsinki, Wooga CEO Jens Begemann said that the company is not going to engage in VR development.

VR studio Sólfar from Iceland has attracted $2.1 million in investments. The money came from funds from Asia, Finland and Iceland. This is reported on the studio’s website.

One of the main surprises of last month, according to App Annie, was the great success of the minimalistic arcade game Smashy Road: Wanted from the Netherlands RK Games.