The main materials of the last week (17.09 – 21.09)

The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: DragonVale dragon farm has been sitting in the top ten grossing USA for a year now, HTC showed its fashionable smartphones on WP8, Zynga lost 12 directors in a couple of months, and the author of Pocket Legends told how to make money on gamers if you make an f2p game.

1. The guys from HP are going to re-enter the smartphone marketHewlett-Packard, the largest manufacturer of personal computers and servers, has officially announced its intention to resume the production of smartphones.

It is still unclear under which platform.

2. Free dragon game has been in the top ten highest-grossing games in the United States for a year nowSeptember 17 marked exactly one year since DragonVale has been sitting in the top ten of American iPhone games.

What is its secret, the British from PocketGamer decided to figure out.  

3. Japanese game developers are massively ready to break into the mobile industryThe era of the Japanese console games industry is coming to an end.

There are fewer and fewer developers in this market who create successful projects,” says Yoshiki Okamoto, founder of Game Republic. Everyone goes into mobile development.

4. HTC closed with the announcement of new smartphones for WP8 “iron month”On September 19, at a presentation in New York, HTC introduced two new smartphones based on Windows Phone 8. The problem is that they could not surprise, please with something special.

Focusing on the design, or rather, copying it from the latest Nokia gadgets, HTC showed the least interesting gadgets among all devices on the new OS from Microsoft.

5. Mice are running from ZyngaSince the publication of the financial report for the second quarter on July 25, at least 12 directors have left their posts.

Among them are the people responsible for the development of CityVille, Empires & Allies, FrontierVille, FarmVille, Mafia Wars 2 and Draw Something.

6. Spacetime Studios: how to make money on a user?Pricing for IAP in mobile games is a sore point for developers.

Why one item should cost a buck, and the other should be offered for free, how to make users want to pay themselves, and how not to scare them away from the game with high prices – these and many other questions were answered in her article on the Pocket Gamer portal by the creator of Pocket Legends mobile MMO Zoya Street from Spacetime Studios.

7. The best app search engine for Android and iOS is readyIt was made by the Germans from Xyologic.

Already, any user can use the new search, as well as get recommendations from the company itself, having familiarized themselves with the original charts and the showcase of Xyologic-promoted applications.