Last Wednesday, May 27, the second meeting of Unity developers – UUG SPB took place in St. Petersburg. Presentations from the event are in our publication.

The founders of the independent Hipster Whale studio, famous for the game Crossy Road, invested in Prettygreat, a young company founded by immigrants from the Australian Halfbrick.

About 69.2% of mobile devices in the United States run on Android OS – versus 29.6% on iOS. This is claimed by the New York advertising platform Fluent, based on its own data.

South Korean developer Fincon, who has the Hello Hero project in his assets, has published another trailer for his new mobile game Angel Stone. It will be released this year.

Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank has acquired an additional 22.7% of the creators of Clash of Clans and Hay Day.

The console from Nintendo under the working name NX will probably function on the basis of the Android OS. This is with reference to a source close to the company’s management, the Japanese newspaper Nikkei writes.

We bring to your attention a list of the most important June events dedicated to the gaming industry.

An interview about King of Thieves; a comparison of game genres by retension; the App Annie report on the growth of Google Play indicators – this is not only in our traditional selection of the best materials for the past seven days.

The minimalistic Two Dots game from publisher Playdots Inc has been downloaded 30 million times. The project has earned more than $15 million in a year since its launch.

The focus in marketing is shifting from television to mobile. Mobile advertising budgets are growing, and soon the figure of $ 500 million will become the annual norm, says Stephen Upstone, founder of the LoopMe video advertising platform. He told about this at the Casual Connect Asia event.

Japanese companies Metaps and Hakuhodo Inc. announced a collaboration in which Metaps was able to assess the impact of television advertising on mobile app downloads.

Rumors have not been confirmed that Kabam is going to launch a game based on the movie “Mad Max: Fury Road” (Mad Max: Fury Road).

A preliminary schedule has appeared on the official website of the White Nights 2015 conference, which will be held in St. Petersburg on June 26-27.

Simon Phillips became the CEO of Studio 22cans.

After several months in softlonch mode, a new mobile game based on the Farmville series from Zynga has appeared in the world stores. The title in the match-3 genre is called FarmVille: Harvest Swap.

Over the year, the number of downloads from Google Play has grown 1.3 times, and the platform’s revenue has increased 1.4 times, App Annie reports in its latest research.

The author of the Might and Magic series of games, John Van Caneghem, will develop mobile games. To this end, he founded the VC Mobile Entertainment studio.

Apple is preparing to introduce a new SDK for native applications for its smart watches. This was stated by Jeff Williams, Apple’s senior Vice President of Operations, during an interview at the Code Conference developers Conference.

San Francisco-based studio nWay will publish its ChronoBlade game in China with the help of a local company NetEase.