On September 10, gaming giant Konami will begin removing its premium projects from the Japanese market from the App Store.

The situation around the confrontation between Machine Zone and Kabam takes an interesting turn. It became known that a former employee of Machine Zone was taken into custody on charges of stealing confidential information about the company.

YouTube Gaming is launching today, August 26. It will offer gamers themed videos and the possibility of broadcasts.

The authors of Battlestation: Harbinger, a Finnish Bugbyte studio, spoke about their experience in combating piracy on Android using game notifications.

Games with screaming little men depicted on their icons are more popular than others. The Israeli marketing platform ironSource came to such conclusions.

The analytical company App Annie recently presented its report on the state of the mobile games market for July. According to him, four games performed particularly well last month: Clash of Kings, Agar.io , Despicable Me and SpongeBob Moves In.

As part of the Creative Europe program, European developers received grants totaling $3.9 million (€3.4 million). This is reported by the Gamasutra resource with reference to the press release of Creative Europe representatives.

A satirical video has appeared on Reddit telling how you can create a successful mobile game in a few steps with a minimum of effort.

Marketing agency Zenna Apps has published an infographic on the mobile gaming market in Russia. Among other interesting figures there is a forecast for 2016. By the end of the year, the mobile segment of the gaming market will reach a volume of $707 million.

Why novice gaming companies should not engage in aggressive B2B PR, and it is desirable for market experts to do this, – App2Top.ru Sergey Babaev, Director of Business Development at Nekki and mentor of the Games Market section at Zuckerberg Will Call, told the audience.

Two of the world’s largest companies specializing in the development of mobile strategy games are preparing for trial. We drank too well at a Casual Connect party and had a fight over a girl.

CPI on Android OS fell in July. This is reported by the American analytical company Fiksu.

For service providers (advertising, billing and analytical networks), a ticket to Moscow Nights 2015 will cost twice as much as for game developers.

On average, players spend money in 1.6 games. Such data is provided by the analytical firm NPD Group in a study for Gamesindustry.biz .

The total installations of the game “Planet of Gems” amounted to 8 million within the Commonwealth of Independent States, – said App2Top.ru the developer of the project is the St. Petersburg company Nevosoft.

MobilityWare debuted on iOS seven years ago with the game Solitare. The studio created the same game for the Apple Watch. Yabloko did not accept it for publication. The project had to be redone, and as a result of the work, these tips appeared from the game designers of the studio.

What difficulties are faced by the teams of the Celestial Empire coming to the Russian market – within the framework of the “Who’s Who” cycle of the editorial office App2Top.ru told the Chinese company 9-kylins.

The last week of August is coming up. We hope that everyone has already managed to go on vacation and have a good rest. If not, hurry up and run, there will be no time for this in September. In the meantime, we are presenting the penultimate digest of the central materials of last week this summer.

The prolonged fashion for retro in the wake of imitations and the desire of many teams to save on art, still sometimes leads to amazing projects that would never have come out if the market had not been ready to accept numerous strange, often unreasonably popular products that exploit the love of older players for their first games.