The main thing for the week (24.06 - 30.06)
Is it possible to make money on the console port, the whole truth about the first days of White Nights, details about the new mobile version – CPE, as well as much more in our traditional weekly digest.
The most important thing that happened last week was, of course, White Nights. But we will talk about the conference in more detail this week, but for now all the most important things for the past.
MondayWe started Monday with scandalous material that Microsoft is trying to bribe developers.
They say that in order for the game to appear on the controversial platform, the Redmonds offer from $ 100 thousand per project.
From a large interview with KamaGames, released on the same day, it turned out that the team plans to become a “publisher with a human face”, as well as about the situation on the mobile games market.
Monday’s third story was about selling nostalgia and an HD remake of the classic Contra game. We briefly recalled the history of the project, and also told about the first reviews of the mobile version.
TuesdayThe main material of Tuesday is an analysis of the box office figures of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
We tried to calculate exactly how much two console hits managed to earn on the American App Store. It turned out a little.
It also unexpectedly turned out that Microsoft is going to release a mobile version of Age of Empires for iOS and Android. Moreover, there were rumors that the company plans to launch entire lines of games based on their IP.
WednesdayThe main news is the opening of the official Apple online store in Russia.
We tried to think about how this will affect the Russian market of mobile applications and whether it will affect at all?
On the same day, ABI Research announced that the application market will grow to $27 billion in 2013. The company’s analysts also predicted that the difference in revenue between the App Store and Google Play will disappear in 18 months.
Fiksu unexpectedly introduced a new metric. It is called CPE – the price for each engagement, where engagement can be understood as the launch of the application itself, as well as payment for IAP or registration in it.
ThursdayThe beginning of White Nights 2013 and the first materials about it.
Accordingly, the night report and the first summaries from the lectures (continued this week).
Of the same interest – Chillingo announced plans to enter the market of portable consoles. The company has started porting its games to the PlayStation Mobile platform. Why? A separate and big question.
Friday
We managed to publish only three materials, but what!
First of all, this is a small report from White Nights, where we learned from Supercell when the Finnish company plans to release a localized version of Clash of Clans to the Russian market.
Secondly, a funny little piece about King’s entry into the merchandising market. The guys decided to start with socks.
And, thirdly, the rumor about Google’s plans to enter the console market. Not a single Ouya, let’s say.
