Glu reported on finances in the second quarter of 2015 and shared plans for the future. The company announced mobile projects with the participation of actor Jason Statham and singer Nicki Minaj.

The continuation of the sports hit from Vivid Games will be released three years after the release of the original game.

Activision has published the results of the 2nd fiscal quarter of 2015. The company’s profit amounted to $759 million (non-GAAP), of which $611 million came from digital sales.

Compass Point West earns $0.06 per day from each user on advertising,” said Next Games lead producer Mitchell Smallman at GDC Europe 2015.

The Finnish team Seriously, the creator of the game Best Fiends, raised $ 18 million during the investment round A. The company shared information about this on its website.

In June, the cost of acquiring loyal users on iOS rose to $3.21 per person. Such information was shared by the analytical company Fiksu.

Changing the engine increases the cost of development. The developers were warned about this by the head of the Sproing studio, Dietmar Houser, during a speech at the GDC 2015 conference.

We are finishing publishing a video from White Nights 2015. The last of them is a master class by Oleg Dorozhok, head of mobile marketing at Yandex. At the conference, he spoke, among other things, about which landing gives the greatest conversion.

A trial launch of the mobile third-person shooter Afterpulse took place in Australia. Information about this appeared on the Toucharcade resource forum.

As part of the GDC Europe 2015 in Cologne, Autodesk, known for such packages as 3D Max and Maya, demonstrated its game engine and announced its release date.

The title Summoners War from Com2uS has gained 40 million downloads a year after launch. The company shared information about this in a press release on the official website.

The WakeApp company, based on our Friday publication “What to do if there is only $ 5 thousand for marketing?“, told us what and how to spend the marketing budget if you work in Russia.

According to the Japanese online resource Nikkei, the everyday life of Konami employees resembles an Orwellian dystopia.

The ideological heir of racing games of the late 80s – early 90s – Horizon Chase – will be released this August.

It took Angry Birds 2 about four days to overcome the 10 million downloads bar.

Electronic Arts has announced the results of the first financial quarter of 2016. The total MAU of the company’s mobile projects fell by 15 million. But this did not prevent the revenue from digital sales to grow.

Have a good weekend to everyone, and we are summing up the results of the last working week only. So, there was a lot of news about the Russian gaming market (J’son & Partners Consulting, Newzoo and Mail.Ru Group). From must read – an article about how to create the right game level, as well as VK’s story about the future of their mobile gaming platform.

Revenue of LINE Corporation, the owner of the messenger of the same name, decreased by 1% compared to the previous quarter. This became known from the financial report of the Japanese company.

The Russian mobile operator VimpelCom has started releasing mobile games under its own Beeline brand.