On February 26, Rusbase released a voluminous interview with Alexey Grigorkin, one of the authors of the Sandbox Coloring game, whose total downloads reached 30 million, and estimated monthly income is $ 2 million. App2Top.ru publishes a short retelling of the material.

The analytical company SuperData presented a forecast of the development of the virtual and augmented reality industry in the next 3 years. According to him, by 2021, VR games will generate $3.3 billion. Revenues of virtual reality titles for 2017 amounted to $306 million.

The creator of the St. Petersburg office of Nival, Peter Prokhorenko, now works at Alternativa Games (formerly AlternativaPlatform). He became the product director of a company known for the MMO action movie “Tanks Online”.

Google has released the final version of the ARCore devkit, designed for the development of augmented reality applications.

The executive producer of the new role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance (KCD) Martin Klima (Martin Klíma) told why he does not consider his work to be part of the echelon of AAA titles. According to Klima, it’s all about its complexity.

Maxim Samorukov, who heads the development at the Moscow studio Crazy Panda, officially announced the launch of his own DataMagic service. The novelty is positioned as a more affordable competitor to App Annie and SensorTower.

On February 26, the rating aggregator Metacritic published two charts – a list of the best “large” and a list of the best “medium” game publishers. The tops were formed based on the press estimates of the companies’ games for 2017.

GTX Corp is threatening to sue a Russian developer. He is accused of violating a patent for one of the main mechanics of freeplay – the creation and sale of in-game currency. The plaintiff is ready to solve the problem in a pre-trial manner for money. To what extent this is a common situation and what a lawyer advises in such cases to do, – I understood App2Top.ru .

What is the advantage of an advertising mediator compared to an advertising network, – says Kirill Makarov from Mobio.

Japanese mobile publisher Colopl reported a drop in net profit in the first fiscal quarter of 2018 (lasted from October to December 2017). The main reason for the decline was the payment of royalties to Disney Corporation after the release of the puzzle Disney Tsum Tsum Land.

2018 has started well for the gaming business in the United States of America. In January, sales of the video game market increased by 59% and reached $ 1.1 billion. These are the best figures since January 2011, according to the analytical company NPD.

The profitability of the esports industry is rapidly increasing. In 2017, the turnover of the international virtual competition market was estimated at $655 million. Compared to the previous year, the increase was 33%, according to a report by Newzoo.

After three years of work on the mobile action movie War Robots, Ilya Smirnov, the producer of the project, leaves Pixonic. His next job is unknown. Smirnov himself plans to rest first.

Mail.Ru Group launches a new type of online advertising targeting. It focuses on the psychotypes of users. This will increase the effectiveness of ads and make them more personalized, Kommersant reports, citing company representatives.

On February 20, the Russian developer Black Sun Game Publishing announced a fundraising campaign for the creation of the game “Corsairs: The Black Mark” (“Corsairs 4”). The next day, Dmitry Arkhipov, co-founder of Akella, the developer and publisher of the first three parts, said that the creators of the new game do not have rights to the trademark of the series. App2Top.ru I talked to representatives of both sides of the conflict.

Microsoft’s Mixer streaming service has an opportunity to buy a game or an add-on while watching its broadcast through the Mixer Direct Purchase function.

Wanted: Unity developer at iLogos, 2D artist at NIKITA ONLINE, and IT recruiter at VALUES VALUE.

Call of Duty: WWII development managers Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield have left Sledgehammer Games studio for executive positions at Activision. Schofield and Condrey founded Sledgehammer in 2009.

In 40% of the most profitable games in the match-3 genre, there is an event in which the player is invited to complete a certain number of levels for a reward. The analytical company Playliner told about this in its latest research.