The main thing for the week (06/16/2014 - 06/22/2014)
The central events and the best materials of the past week are in our traditional weekly selection.
Top 500 Cash Register Google Play Apps
A curious toy has appeared on GitHub. It is called the "Top 500 Cash register applications". This is a graph that pulls up data on the position of applications in Google Play from the Droid Meter analytical resource and distributes them into six columns: the minimum number of installations, price, place in the global box office Top 500, position change (per week), rating and number of reviews.
App Annie and IDC talked about mobile games based on movies
App Annie, together with IDC, studied the market for games developed based on movies and TV shows. As it turned out, there is no direct connection between the box office of films and games based on their motives.
How do you know which conference is worth going to and which is not?
There are a lot of conferences dedicated to the games every month (the exception is July, when people prefer cozy beaches and cold cocktails to work). And all these events are divided into two types – those that you need to go to, and all the others. How to determine that the conference is "fire"?
Juniper Research: Mobile games will earn $24 billion this year
The total revenue from mobile games in 2014 will amount to $ 24 billion, most of this amount (about $ 14 billion) will be in the Far East and China, according to the latest report by Juniper Research.
Infographics: the evolution of three-in-a-row games
The British studio Mind Candy (authors of Moshi Monsters), in honor of the release of its new game Moshling Rescue, has released an infographic telling about the history of the match-3 genre.
App Annie has published game tops for downloads and revenue for May
The analytical company, whose mascot is a pretty red-haired girl with glasses, published the gaming world tops for May on iOS and Google Play platforms.
Amazon has introduced its own smartphone
The American company Amazon yesterday, on June 18, introduced its own smartphone — Fire Phone.
How does Glu distinguish players who will never pay from potential payers?
Our colleagues from SOOMLA found out using the example of Deer Hunter 2014 how Glu separates defaulters from payers.
Creative Mobile: Our profits from Drag Racing were able to mitigate any negativity
About working in Estonia, the history of Drag Racing development and attitude towards clones App2Top.ru Vladimir Funtikov, head of the Business development department and one of the founders of Creative Mobile, told us.
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