The company N3TWORK, the founder of the video social network, bought the Swedish mobile games studio Nio Games. The team leader is Paul Wilkinson. Prior to founding the game studio, he worked as the director of the mobile development department of the Stockholm branch of King.

Within the framework of the GetIT game developers conference held in Ukraine the other day! The speaker Kirill Fialka from the Kharkiv Heart beat Games team spoke about the development of the visual style of the game project. Especially for App2Top.ru the studio has prepared a printed version of the report.

Electronic Arts reported that video advertising in the company’s games exceeds the effectiveness of TV commercials by 2.5 times. With this statement, EA representatives commented on the deal with the marketing firm IMS Internet Media Services.

A new website has appeared online designed to help independent game developers with self-publishing.

The publisher and developer of Glu Mobile has won a copy suit from Hothead Games. This is reported by Pocketgamer.biz with a link to information from the company.

Alerts are a serious tool for retaining and re-engaging users in mobile applications. The problem is that most users treat them negatively.

The amount of funds that US venture funds spend on investments will reach $70 billion by the end of 2015. This was reported in a joint study by the analytical firms KPMG and CB Insights.

A game from the creators of Crossy Road, Hipster Whale studio, has appeared in the App Store and Google Play. The project is called PAC-MAN 256. The Australian team developed it together with the authors of the original PAC-MAN, the Japanese company Namco.

On August 19, owners of iOS devices became available for purchase one of the best-selling and iconic games of the Final Fantasy series – Final Fantasy VII.

Bethesda has published an infographic on the mobile game Fallout Shelter.

The St. Petersburg startup ChartLight has officially launched an analytical service of the same name, the main feature of which is the ability to show all types of retention, as well as the frequency and duration of sessions of users of third-party Google Play applications.

Activision has announced the Skylanders Battlecast project. This, like Hearthstone, is a collectible card game.

Eric Seufert, vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, explained exactly how Apple creates prices in the App Store, and why this system needs to be improved.

The income of the Japanese battler with the Monster Strike billiard combat system is $ 4.2 million per day with relatively low marketing costs.

The share of children’s expenses in the global mobile games market will amount to 7.8% or $1.9 billion in 2015,” the American research company Superdata said in the framework of Casual Connect USA 2015.

Creator of World of Tanks, company Wargaming.net , announced a new appointment. Keith Anderson has taken the post of Head of Marketing and Communications in Europe.

The author of Galaxy on Fire named two reasons why working on a PC project is better than working on a mobile game.

In the West, a lot of success stories in the mobile games market are associated with venture investments. In Russia, the very possibility of such plots has always been labeled “science fiction”. And, apparently, there is no need to wait for a change in the situation in the near future: the Russian venture capital investment market has fallen by half.

Barcelona-based developer Timo Kloss has created an application whose task is to teach the BASIC programming language. For this purpose, the user is offered to create a mobile game in a retro style.