Paid installations lose out to organic when it comes to user retention. The marketing and analytical company AppsFlyer came to such conclusions.

The American retailer Amazon has launched a service that will help developers increase revenue from projects. Game creators will be able to sell branded T-shirts.

A thematic update in the “Back to the Future” setting has been released for the Jetpack Joyride game. It is timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the release of the film.

Yulia Lebedeva, Business Development Director at Nevosoft, invites you to the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference for developers of mobile and social games.

The Kamcord mobile video streaming service has attracted 200,000 new users over the past two months.

We continue to publish materials in our Who’s Who series. This time we talked to the studio IzHard, whose game OVIVO won first place in the category “Games” in the framework of the world technology competition among students Microsoft Imagine Cup 2015.

The Canadian company Fabric Engine Inc. has released the second version of the platform of the same name for creating visualizations, animations and 3D graphics.

The developers of Epic Quest of the 4 Crystals distributed free keys to games on Steam in exchange for reviews from users. Valve considered this a violation of the Steam rules and removed all reviews of the game.

In the West, unlike Russia, which still positions itself as the most reading country in the world, mobile book games are very common. Moreover, they cannot be called a very narrow niche. Popular resources write reviews on them, they are given high marks, it comes to the point that some of them become the games of the year. One of such popular games was 80 Days from inkle studio, also known for the Sorcery series!

CPLU or the cost of buying a loyal user for Apple mobile devices in August was $4. This is reported in the blog by the analytical firm Fiksu.

The release of the strategy about submarines and diplomacy from the authors of World of Goo and Amazing Alex is officially scheduled for October 15.

Hoping to take over the North American market, the Japanese company GungHo this week launched a television advertising campaign for its box office blockbuster Puzzle & Dragons.

How fundamentally different is the behavior of paying users from non-paying ones, – GameAnalytics experts told in their extensive report. And we, in turn, have prepared a short version of the report in Russian.

Responsible for the appearance of Crossy Road, Matt Hall and Andy Sum, teaming up with the authors of Breath of Light and Spellcaster, released a funny scrolling shooter Shooty Skies.

There is also a place for a detective in the life of developers. The history of Golgom Games studio is proof of that. The creators of the studio from the American city of Austin raised $ 30 thousand to launch the game through the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. And then they disappeared along with the money.

Eric Flannum, responsible for the development of Guild Wars 2 and the creation of content in addition to the original Guild Wars, is now working on a PC game in the walls of Amazon Game Studios.

Chukong USA, the American daughter of Chinese Chukong Technologies, has released an SDKBOX service designed for easy integration of third-party plugins into the Cocos2d-x engine.

Unity CEO John Riccitiello shared his view on the company’s future. This happened during the Unity conference in Boston.

Tomorrow, September 30, St. Petersburg State University together with Dentons Law Company will hold the Game@Law conference.