Anton Tatarinov and Ilya Zakharov from SunStrike shared their experience of setting up external testing with App2Top.

Let’s return to our series of articles about games that need investments or publishers. The current piece is dedicated to Enemy Inside, a single-player MOBA project with roguelike mechanics by indie studio Six Ways Games.

On February 27, one of the largest cities in the Balkans hosted a networking event for participants in the gaming industry, WN Connect Belgrade. Here are the highlights.

Ksenia Pirogova, Head of the Learning and Development Department at Nexters, shared a case study on handling training requests within the company in her column for App2Top.

On Monday, March 3rd, Astrum Entertainment unveiled the beta version of their proprietary launcher — Astrum Play. The company positions it as a gaming platform of its own development. App2Top spoke with Sergey Efremov, Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment, about the reasons behind the service’s launch and its immediate future.

At the beginning of next month, the annual conference for computer and mobile game developers GameDev CityFest will be held in Novosibirsk.

The team at perelesoq provided detailed advice on how to announce a game on Steam and shared their own experience.

Especially for App2Top, former owner of “Kanobu” and “Igromania,” Gadzhi Makhtiev commented on the sale and discussed the significant challenges currently facing the industry, in his opinion.

This morning, February 28, it was officially announced that ownership of two popular Russian gaming resources has changed hands. Media manager Gadji Makhtiev transferred the general management of “Kanobu” and “Igromania” to Vasily Ovchinnikov, co-founder of the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI). The App2Top editorial team discussed the deal with him.

The wave of significant layoffs continues to sweep through the industry like torrential waters. This time, it has reached the studios owned by Warner Bros. Games.

Thanks to the new toolkit of the analytical service, it’s now possible not only to find projects on Steam that are created and promoted with the participation of artificial intelligence but also to count their number.

The Russian publisher of “World of Tanks” and “World of Warships” shared its business performance metrics for the past year.

In January, the company “1С” (not to be confused with 1C Game Studios) released the mobile battler “The Three Heroes: Adventure Arena,” created with the support of the animation studio “Melnitsa” and the Internet Development Institute (IRI). The editorial team of App2Top spoke with Timur Musin, the project manager, about the game’s history and development plans.

Starting this February, on the last Thursday of every month, WN Connect Belgrade will take place in the capital of Serbia, a networking event for participants in the gaming industry. The first event is planned for next Thursday, February 27.

The legal firm Semenov&Pevzner has prepared a global report on legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

WN Media Group has announced a new event format — Lounge. These will be intimate events focused on networking and the discussion of a specific topic within the iGaming sector.

Last week, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted a conference for game developers and publishers called the WN Conference. Among its participants were representatives from companies such as Mundfish, Ubisoft, Google, AD Gaming, GEM Capital, Razer, Applovin, and many others.

Last year was marked by a series of high-profile crypto gaming releases on Telegram. Alexey Toropov from TON Society and Vadim Sterling from AdsGram shared with App2Top their insights on what Telegram Mini Apps represent after their release and the projects themselves.

SteamDB published the list of best-selling games for the period from February 11 to February 18.