A couple of weeks ago, the first meeting of the Unity engine user community in Russia took place in St. Petersburg – Unity User Group.

May is over, spring is on the nose, and we have a traditional selection of the best materials for the past week.

At the end of April, the gaming company Gameloft announced the release of the Asphalt Nitro mobile title. Almost the only detail about the game was its weight – 15 MV.

Jonathan Raveh is the director of the Department of Cooperation and Public Relations at Appnext, which owns the marketing platform of the same name. In his blog on the Gamasutra resource, he told why keywords are no longer a promotion tool – and how to solve this problem.

All incorrectly working assets will disappear from the Asset Store. A message about this appeared in the official Russian-speaking Unity user group.

A closed event aimed at console game developers will be held in Moscow on May 14.

Kristian Segerstrale, whose Super Evil Megacorp studio launched MOBA Vainglory at the end of last year, spoke about the lessons he learned from working on the game.

Having earned $20 million on one clone of Clash of Clans, Space Ape Games is releasing its second clone of clashes — with a story from Rhianna Pratchett and music from the author of the soundtrack to Mass Effect.

On iOS, the third-person bagel Legend of Grimrock from the independent Finnish studio Almost Human has appeared on sale.

At the GamesBeat Summit event for game developers in Sausalito, Unity CEO John Riccitiello talked about what problems the game creator community has and what to do about it.

The volume of the esports market is $612 million,” SuperData claims in its research.

A couple of months ago, the Infinario startup was launched, developing an analytical service of the same name, focused on application in mobile and social games. App2Top.ru I asked the co-founder of the new company about what the product can offer to game developers.

Russian publisher and developer JoyBits reported that the company’s games have been downloaded 170 million times.

The analytical company App Annie presented an overview of the world game charts of the App Store and Google Play for March, at the same time answering questions about who was the leader in downloads the month before last, which companies earned the most, and whether there were new trends in the mobile games market.

The developer of Super Evil Megacorp together with the European esports League ESL will hold the world’s first MOBA-game tournament on mobile devices.

The share of “apple” smartphones compared to 2014 increased by 1.8% in the five main markets of Europe – in England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Analysts from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech believe that the growth of Apple’s user base is due to former users of Android devices.

The fifteenth GAMM event will be held in Moscow on May 15-16. Among the speakers are the authors of Battlefield 4 and This War of Mine.

In early April, the game Gravity Defied from the Russian studio Rock Entertainment was released in the Russian App Store. Since the end of April, it has been included in the gaming top ten for free downloads. Its authors told App2Top.ru that we achieved this without investing in marketing.

Following the results of the 2015 financial year, EA Mobile shared its forecasts. She told me which games she expects good performance from. An important point is that they are all made based on existing IP addresses.