Within the framework of the “developer diaries” format, we publish the fourth note of the ComonGames team. In it, ComonGames Chief Operating Officer Sergey Ermolov told about how the team was preparing for the release of the quest The Unknown, as well as about the first results of the project.

Stanislav Kostyuk, a game designer at Ubisoft, continues to tell how exactly the narrative structure of the “Hero’s Path” is embodied in games. This time the topic of the analysis was Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.

From October to December, it makes sense for mobile game developers to pay special attention to commercials and banners in their games. The income from them can jump up to 300%.

The other day, the Earth Liberation game was officially presented as part of Steam Greenlight. Its development is headed by Pyotr Prokhorenko, who was previously responsible for such games as “Blitzkrieg 3”, “Stalingrad”, “Aggression”, “9th Company” and others. More information about the new project is in our material.

Mobio Talks within the framework of White Nights Moscow 2016, which took place on October 11-12, took several interviews with the speakers of the conference. Today we are publishing a conversation between Mobio Executive Director Sergey Konovalov and Oleg Pridyuk, the chief evangelist of the international company King, which is now engaged not only in the development and publication of games, but also in the development of its Defold engine.

App2Top.ru uploads a video from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. The next report is a round table on game analytics, which was attended by representatives of Pixonic, devtodev, AppLovin, Game Insight and Orc Work.

App2Top.ru uploads a video from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. Next up is a report from independent expert Alexandra Pestretsova on the rules of working with YouTube bloggers and streamers.

Exactly two weeks ago, White Nights Moscow 2016 died down. App2Top.ru sums up the results of the Moscow session of the international conference.

How to avoid the transformation of a shareware game into a pipeline for the submission of content, – he told Michail Katkoff, head of FunPlus Studio. Translated the text, we share.

About the sales results of Gremlins, Inc on Steam, — the producer of the project Sergey Klimov told in the blog of the game on the platform. We share a short version of the material.

Revenues of Russia’s largest Internet company Mail.Ru The revenue from the gaming division for the third quarter of 2016 amounted to 1.9 billion rubles (excluding Pixonic). This is 13.5% less than a year earlier.

On October 25, 1996, Tomb Raider, the first game in a series of action-adventure games about the adventures of an English aristocrat Lara Croft, appeared on store shelves. App2Top.ru together with the collective blog “Cuffs of a Game Designer” and the website 80.lv congratulates Lara on her twentieth birthday.

App2Top.ru uploads a video from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. Next up is a report from Matthew Steinke, the lead technical designer of CD Projekt RED. In his speech, he talked about working on The Witcher 3.

App2Top.ru starts posting videos from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. The first in line is from Oleg Pridyuk from King. In his speech, he talked about how the authors of Candy Crush are working on games.

Gameforge announced the dismissal of one fifth of its employees. The publisher explains this by moving away from mobile in favor of “new opportunities in the PC freeplay market.” We talked with the director of the 101XP Business Development department about how much this market is more interesting than mobile.

The German company Gameforge, which publishes and operates such free-play games as Tera, Aion, HEX and Orcs Must Die! Unchained, refuses to publish mobile games and fires 90 employees.

The evangelist of the Creative Mobile publishing direction Valentin Merzlikin shared with App2Top.ru his opinion on the fate of the lawsuit in which the authors of Toy Blast accuse Hasbro of cloning their project.

The Turkish company Peak Games accuses the American toy giant Hasbro of cloning the casual hit Toy Blast.

Vera Velichko, founder and art director of OWL-studio, told App2Top.ru how should I speak if I was suddenly invited to read a report or decided to share my work experience with colleagues at a conference.