It’s too early to rest! The organizers of the White Nights Prague 2018 conference have started accepting applications for participation in the Indie Game Cup competition. The reception is open only until January 24.

Unexpected. This is how we can describe in one word a selection of the best games from Facebook for the past year. The fact is that the main draft of the final list is far from being heard by the general public.

Report by Sergey Zykov from Armor5Games. The speaker spoke about how to maintain (and multiply) the team, find money for development and become stronger in the absence of external funding.

Playrix brand evangelist Alexey Trushkov told App2Top.ru how the outgoing year went for him.

Founder and CEO of tinyBuild Alex Nichiporchik said App2Top.ru how the current year has passed for his company.

Report by Sergey Kopov from Sunday Games. The speaker spoke about his experience of using chatbot technology in game development and shared statistics based on millions of requests.

MyTona Founders Alexey and Afanasy Ushnitsky told App2Top.ru about the main successes of the company for the current year.

Alexander Harutyunyan, General Director of Innova, told App2Top.ru about the most important industry trends over the past year.

Report by Tanya Evdokimenko (Loktionova) from Values Value. She talked about the failures and best practices, gave recommendations on how to hire better.

Director Mail.Ru Games Ventures Ilya Karpinsky told App2Top.ru about the success of his company over the past year.

Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev said App2Top.ru about the main trend of the outgoing year.

The revenues of the last part of the Call of Duty franchise exceeded a seven-figure sum. Call of Duty: WWII earned $ 1 billion in less than 2 months, according to the publisher of the game Activision.

One less mystery. Startup Magic Leap demonstrated the design of augmented reality glasses Magic Leap One. The project was developed for 6 years in secrecy and raised $1.9 billion in investments.

Apple has introduced restrictions on the use of loot boxes in iOS games. The company obliged developers to disclose to users the probability of receiving each type of items before buying a loot box.

A report by Ryan Booth from Virtual Arts. The speaker spoke about how the company went the way to creating its first VR game – Cargo Racing VR, as well as what they learned during their existence.

Wanted: a game balancer in MyTona, an event director in Playrix and a narrative designer in G5.

The revenue of the mobile version of the Hearthstone card game after the release of the Kobolds and Catacombs add-on increased by 119% in 5 days. Sensor Tower analytical company shared data on the impact of add-ons on mobile Hearthstone revenues.

Vice President of Business Development 101XP Ilya Salamatov told App2Top.ru about the success of his company over the past year.

The role-playing game Exiles of Embermark from the Californian team Gunslinger Studios will be one of the first releases of the new mobile publishing house Wargaming Mobile, created on the basis of the company Wargaming.net .