The main thing for the week (July 2 — 8)
A benchmark of mobile games, a list of the highest—grossing games in the history of iOS, as well as a selection of the most earning domestic games – this and much more in our collection of publications for the past week.
Google Play has changed the algorithms for recommending games
For recommendations of Google Play games and apps, high retention rates, rare crashes and a low number of deletions have gained more weight.
Adjust has published a benchmark of mobile games for the first quarter of 2018
The developers of the Adjust analytical platform told about the average retention level, the number of sessions and the number of user actions in the gaming mobile in their latest report.
History with Steam Spy
First the author The End is Nigh Tyler Glayel announced that he had found a way to collect accurate data on the number of Steam game owners and even passed the decision to the author of Steam Spy. A couple of days later, Steam closed this opportunity, thereby confirming that it was working on its own solution and was not interested in competition.
App Annie named the highest-grossing games in the history of iOS
On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone went on sale. In honor of the tenth anniversary of the event, App Annie held an App Store retrospective. Briefly about the most important of the report — in our material.
App Annie shared with App2Top.ru a list of the highest-grossing games developed by teams that were based in the post-Soviet space. The main selection criterion is that the game should have earned $25 million or more from January to June 2018. There were eleven such projects in total.
Director of Bethesda: authors of large projects should take risks
Todd Howard has been working at Bethesda Game Studios for a quarter of a century, he is responsible for the development of all the main projects of the studio. At the Gamelab Barcelona conference, he was awarded an award as an industry Legend. We present an extract from Howard’s speech, in which he spoke about the studio’s projects, his design principles and vision of the mobile market.
Odnoklassniki named the highest-grossing genres on the platform
The Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top.ru how the income of their developers is distributed by genre. She also revealed that she had paid ₽100 million to mobile developers in five months.
How Crypto Games work: an interview with Sergey Kopov
How relevant are crypto games today? How do they differ from regular video games? How is traffic attracted for them? I answered these and other questions in an interview with App2Top.ru Sergey Kopov, founder of the studio Sunday Games and 0xGames, in which he recently released the crypto game 0xUniverse.
