The main thing for the weeks (27.10.2014 - 09.11.2014)

Last Monday we, as well as the whole country, were on vacation, and therefore this time you will find a selection of the most striking events / materials from the last two weeks at once.

South Park told how free-to-play actually worksThe plot of the latest episode of the South Park television show, which appeared on the network on November 5, revolves around a shareware distribution model.

The series is called: Freemium Isn’t Free.

How I stopped worrying and fell in love with mobile gamesGamasutra resource has published the author’s text of Gameloft studio game designer Lucas Gonzales (Lucas González) about what mobile game design is and why it should not be feared.

We have translated this text and are sharing it with you.

How many downloads do I need to get into the Russian App Store game charts?Clickky Mobile Marketing platform for App2Top.ru I calculated how many downloads are needed to get into the game charts by genre in the Russian App Store.

Debriefing: MonsuWe tried to figure out why the Monsu runner, which was actively promoted by Apple, did not “shoot”.

Due to ebola, sales of Plague Inc. increased by 50%Ndemic founder James Vaughan said that due to the increased media attention to the Ebola epidemic, downloads of the Plague Inc. game jumped by 50%.

No longer beta: VKontakte has officially launched a platform to promote mobile applicationsSince October 28, mobile advertising within the VKontakte social network has become available to all advertisers.

In three months, mobile games in China have earned more than $ 1 billionIn the third quarter of 2014, the Chinese mobile games market earned $1.1 billion.

This is 9% more than in the second quarter of this year and 73% more than in the third quarter of 2013, – the analytical company iResearch reports.

App Annie: Gaming index for September”Red Anya” at the end of October presented the September results of the mobile games market.

App Annie told about the gaming market of South KoreaAnalysts of “Red Ani” continue a series of publications about mobile gaming markets in different countries.

Korea is next in line.

Eight tips for working with keywords in the App StoreThe founder of WordData, Evaldo Rossi, shared tips on optimizing search results in the App Store on the blog of the German analytical company Adjust.

We offer a short version of his material.

Top 10 Chinese Android StoresAccording to the results of the third quarter of 2014, the most popular app store in China is 360 Mobile Assistant, 26% of Chinese Android users download from it, – the analytical company Newzoo reports in one of its latest studies.

More than 50% of the players are womenWomen make up more than half of the number of consumers in the American gaming market,” SuperData Research, a gaming analytics service, found out.\

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