How much a game on Windows Phone can earn, why it is better not to use the Russian market for a “soft launch”, what you should pay attention to when porting the game to WP, and many other things were told to us by Sergey Babaev, director of business development at Nekki.

The joint revenue of App Store developers for 2014 amounted to a record $10 billion, – reports Develop-online.

Nintendo, together with GungHo Online Entertainment, will release a special edition of the Puzzle & Dragons game for its 3DS consoles featuring characters from the Super Mario Bros. franchise. 

The mobile games market is increasingly attracting the attention of non-core companies for the industry. Animoca Brands studio was bought by Black Fire Minerals (BFE), specializing in the exploration and production of gold, copper and valuable minerals.

The organizers of the Mobile Games Forum presented a small e-book History Of Mobile Gaming. As a brief squeeze, they published an infographic on the history of mobile games.

Eric Benjamin Seufert, a leading marketer at Wooga, shared his thoughts on the importance of Christmas for the mobile market and demonstrated the main feature of the mobile application market.

The dynamics of the growth in the use of mobile games downloaded from the App Store and Google Play has halved in 2014,” Flurry specialists said in their latest study.

To increase the performance of the game, you need to add a chat to it, – our colleagues from Venturebeat believe.

On January 5, ustwo announced in its Twitter feed that most of the installations of the Monument Valley game were made illegally. 

Dear readers, editorial staff App2Top.ru in full congratulations on the upcoming (almost, almost, somewhere very close olivier languishes and champagne sizzles) Happy New Year 2015!

The App Annie resource has published the November results of the mobile games market. We share them with you.

About the dawn of “minimalistic games”, the intensification of competition between game engines, Chinese expansion and much more – in our final material for the year. 

The Minecraft: Pocket Edition game over the Christmas holidays has overtaken its closest competitors in terms of revenue, Clash of Clans, Game of War and Candy Crush Saga, – the Venturebeat resource claims.

In the central materials of last week, read: which genres were leading in the App Store in the outgoing year, how much the Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft game will earn, how to promote your application to the top App Store, and also what the premiere of the Temple Run title for virtual reality helmets can teach the game designer. 

Head of the Venturebeat Insight online resource Development Department Michia Rohrssen advises exactly how to promote the app so that it gets into the top App Store.

The New Year is getting closer, which means it’s time to sum up. The Gamasutra resource shared with readers exactly which genres were leading in the App Store in the outgoing year.

The KingsRoad game from publisher and developer Rumble Entertainment has been released on the iPad.

As we have already mentioned, the Temple Run VR game for a virtual reality helmet has recently been released. Using her example, the Gamasutra resource briefly analyzed some of the problems that are inevitable in this new area for the gaming industry.