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Money April 30, 2015

Big Fish earned $91.9 million in the first quarter of 2015

The American company Big Fish, which once specialized in games in the genre of “I’m looking for”, demonstrated excellent financial performance in the first quarter of 2015.

Industry April 29, 2015

Unity: details about publishing République Remastered content in the Asset Store

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, Marketing Director of the American direction of Unity, commented on the news for App2Top that several episodes of République Remastered by Camouflage appeared in the Unity Asset Store.

Industry April 29, 2015

The developer of the unreleased game accused Ketchapp of theft

Some people tend to believe in conspiracy theories and their own genius (and uniqueness). Sometimes this leads to high-profile stories, like the one that played out on Medium.

Industry April 29, 2015

Consumers and developers have cautiously accepted the Apple Watch

The attitude towards the Apple Watch (both users and developers) is cautious at the moment. There is no confidence in the prosperous future of the platform. And will it be the future?

Money April 29, 2015

Gameloft earned $71 million in the first quarter of 2015

Gameloft’s sales in the first quarter amounted to $71 million. The French company owes its financial success to new titles, including Dungeon Hunter 5.

Industry April 29, 2015

The authors of Best Fiends will release a series of figures based on their game

Studio Seriously together with the toy manufacturer Kidrobot will release a series of figures for the game Best Fiends.

Industry April 29, 2015

“Apple doesn’t care about us”: why a successful indie developer doesn’t want to deal with iOS

Founder of the indie studio Spiderweb Software Jeff Vogel (Jeff Vogel) deleted my latest game from iOS. The remaining projects will have the same fate after a while. The indie developer told about the reason for this decision in an interview with Venturebeat.

Industry April 28, 2015

Apple paid Chinese developers $2.5 billion for the year

China’s mobile developers accounted for 25% of the amount that Apple paid for 2014 to all iOS developers.

Industry April 28, 2015

10% of Apple Watch apps are games

To date, the App Store already has about 3315 applications for Apple Watch, – reports with reference to its own calculations PocketGamer.biz .

Industry April 28, 2015

Oculus has announced a competition for the most “amazing art” for VR

Oculus, in cooperation with the software manufacturer Otoy, announced the launch of an art competition for virtual reality. It is called Render the Metaverse and will last until July 26.

Marketing April 28, 2015

AppsFlyer will help you measure the effectiveness of TV advertising

The Israeli analytical company AppsFlyer has come up with a way to measure the effectiveness of TV advertising for mobile games and applications.

Marketing April 28, 2015

Optimization Funnel and growth

Eric Seufert, Vice President of Acquisition and Engagement at Rovio, spoke in his blog about what an optimization funnel and growth are in relation to mobile app marketing. We offer the Russian version of the material.

Games April 28, 2015

Clone on clone: Kabam will launch its fighting game in China together with Longtu Games

Kabam, in collaboration with Longtu Games, is preparing to release the Chinese version of the mobile game Marvel: Contest of Champions.

Games April 27, 2015

Monster Strike got a spin-off

Mixi has released a cooperative offshoot of Monster Strike, one of the highest-grossing games in Japan.

Industry April 27, 2015

Cap advises: how to monetize users and improve their gaming experience

Analysts never tire of repeating: users do not want to pay money for games. Here are some tips from the application developer company Yudiz Solutions on how to monetize the project so as not to scare off the player, but also not to stay broke.

Games April 27, 2015

Robot 5 Studio will release 10 games for Apple Watch in a month

Robot 5 Studios is going to release a dozen games for Apple Watch by the end of May.

Games April 27, 2015

Telltale will create a series of games based on the Marvel universe

Telltale Games will collaborate with Marvel Entertainment. The company announced this during a presentation held recently in San Francisco.

Industry April 27, 2015

The first details about “Evolution 2”

The other day the company My.com announced the sequel to the game “Evolution: the Battle for Utopia”. We talked to the general producer of the project By Alexander Enin about the game.

Marketing April 27, 2015

devtodev: the regularity of inputs is the most important indicator of the monetization of the game

Payments to the game are usually made by loyal users. The more loyal they are, the more they spend. Vasily Sabirov, representing the analytical service devtodev.com I decided to confirm this thesis in practice by measuring user loyalty and evaluating its connection with monetization.

Digests April 27, 2015

The main thing for the week (20.04.2015 – 24.04.2015)

Ten of our best materials from last week, from which you will learn which engine to choose instead of Unreal Engine, what to play on the newly released Apple Watch, why the Apple app verification process is hurting users, which virtual reality glasses will soon be available to buy instead of Samsung Gear VR – and much more.