The main thing for the week (14.07. - 20.07.)
Congratulations on the start of the new working week, we hope that everyone had a good rest on the weekend, and we invite you to familiarize yourself with the best materials of the past seven days.
App Store – the world of the living dead
There is a glut in mobile markets today. The demand for applications is much less than the supply. The situation is considered well-known, but Adjust decided to remind you about it once again, and not in words, but in numbers.
One of the key moments of WWDC 2014 was the announcement of Metal, a graphical application programming interface. Not so long ago, Unity announced its support and told us why it is needed. We suggest reading the translation of this story, kindly provided by App2Top.ru Unity's Russian office.
Timberman is evidence that the mobile gaming market continues to take shape
Last week, the Timberman game was released in the world's free tops. The Western press immediately raised a fuss about the project, calling the development of Pawel Jedrysiak the new Flappy Bird. Was it worth it?
Nexon, Wargaming.net and Zynga invested in a venture fund for game developers
The main investor of Supercell, London Venture Partners, has founded a venture fund that will sponsor European gaming teams. Nexon has already invested in the latter, Wargaming.net and Zynga.
"Flappy Bird is a myth" or a few more words about the formation of the market
This year can be safely called the year of Flappy Bird. The Vietnamese developer's project has become a banner, a model, and a dream for many independent teams. But does this dream have anything to do with reality?
The authors of Game of War were estimated at $ 3 billion
The American studio Machine Zone, which created one of the highest—grossing games of recent times - Game of War, was estimated at $ 3 billion.
SponsorPay and HasOffers simultaneously announced a name change and rebranding
Two major players in the mobile advertising market — SponsorPay and HasOffers – announced yesterday that they are changing their names. SponsorPay will now be called Fyber, and HasOffers will be called Tune.
Gameloft has released a free game without IAP
The unexpected is nearby: Gameloft yesterday released a very unusual project for itself — an addictive two-dimensional arcade game without micropayments.
Big Fish has launched its "three-in-a-row"
The mobile market continues to experience a boom in three-in-a-row games. Following a series of clones of Bejeweled and Candy Crush Saga, big players begin to present their "homemade preparations". Next up is Big Fish, which recently published Cascade.
1 million copies of Monument Valley have been sold
Paid games on the mobile market can make money. This statement has been proved for the third month in a row by the game Monument Valley from the London studio ustwo. Recently it became known that the total sales of the game on three mobile platforms (App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore) exceeded the figure of 1 million.
VKontakte is back in the App Store
On May 23, Apple removed the official iOS application of the VKontakte social network from the shelves of the App Store. After almost three months, he was finally returned.
Google Play will stop calling games with IAP- free
Google Corporation covers the "free" shop: by the end of September, the company undertakes not to advertise as free those applications that contain micropayments.
