Industry August 24, 2016 Wargaming has closed the office of WG Cells in Seattle (UPDATED #2) The American office of WG Cells, a division of Wargaming for the development and publication of mobile games, closed: 64 studio employees lost their jobs.
Industry August 23, 2016 The Devil May Cry series turned 15 years old One of the main slasher game series – Devil May Cry – today, August 23, marked 15 years since its debut on gaming shelves.
Industry August 23, 2016 Color Switch reported 100 million downloads (UPDATED) The Color Switch mobile game, originally made by two developers in a week without using code, has collected 100 million downloads in 8 months since its release.
Development August 23, 2016 Post-mortem Warbits games Risky Lab, authors of the strategyWarbits, the “ideological heir” of Advance Wars, told how the game was created. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.
Industry August 22, 2016 Punch Club will appear on the Nintendo 3DS One of the main cross-platform winter releases of this year – a retro project about nostalgia for the 80s and the difficult boxing fate of Punch Club – will appear on the Nintendo 3DS portable console.
Digests August 22, 2016 The main thing for the working week (15.08.2016 – 19.08.2016) About the development of the game about Big Brother, the current ambitions of 1C, the earnings of public companies for the second calendar quarter of 2016 and much more – all this is in our selection of the most interesting materials of last week.
Industry August 22, 2016 No Man’s Sky is in the Top 20 games on Steam by the number of online users The number of one-time players in No Man’s Sky on the Steam platform fell from 212 thousand to 40 thousand players in a week. Despite this, the game is still one of the most popular among players. The project is in the Top 20 in terms of the number of online players.
Industry August 22, 2016 How to increase the creative potential of the team? As part of the GamesBeat 2016 conference, veterans of the game dev gave advice on how to encourage and develop creativity among employees.
Money August 22, 2016 Clash Royale’s revenues have halved since March The latest game of the Finnish company Supercell – Clash Royale – has been losing revenue since May. In August, the project earned $62 million. This is two times less than the game received in March.
Money August 22, 2016 The Japanese mobile games market earns more than $9 billion a year Games for smartphones and tablets earn from $9.3 billion to $9.5 billion a year in Japan.
Games August 22, 2016 Rovio is preparing another battler in the Angry Birds universe Angry Birds Evolution from the Finnish Rovio has been released on the App Store in Hong Kong. The novelty is another attempt by the company to strengthen itself within the battler genre.
Industry August 20, 2016 Ratings: Top 10 most Trending Steam games (08/19/2016) About the most trending Steam games this week in our weekly report. This time the top is again (!) headed by Kingdom: New Lands. As for the editorial board, we recommend paying attention to Reigns and Overcooked.
Blogs August 19, 2016 How did you come up with the idea of a new War Robots logo? – Igor Klyukin’s story Igor Klyukin, Pixonic‘s executive director, shared his experience working on the logo for War Robots on his Facebook page. App2Top.ru publishes a post on its pages with the permission of the author.
Money August 19, 2016 Earnings of public gaming companies (April – June 2016) Based on open sources App2Top.ru I collected in one material information about the gaming earnings of leading public companies based on the results of the recently ended second calendar quarter of this year.
Industry August 18, 2016 Ratings: Top 10 most popular games GOG.com (18.08.2016) With the support of GOG.com (entertainment platform and video game store, which is part of CD PROJEKT) website App2Top.ru continues to regularly analyze which PC games are in the greatest demand.
Industry August 18, 2016 Microsoft: in the future, our consoles will not have generations The authors of Xbox reject the idea of generations in the console market. Apparently, they are just going to release more and more devices.
Industry August 18, 2016 Newzoo: the highest-grossing iOS games of July in the USA, Europe and China Where Pokémon GO was released, in July it also turned out to be the leader among games in terms of revenue and downloads on the Apple mobile platform, according to analysts at Newzoo.
Money August 18, 2016 Mail.Ru Group earned 4.5 billion rubles on MMO games in the first half of 2016 Russian Internet company Mail.Ru The Group has published financial statements for the first six months of 2016. Of the 18.8 billion rubles earned by the company, about 23% came from MMO games.
Games August 17, 2016 Release of the Day: Deus Ex GO (UPDATED) On the eve of the launch of the role-playing action Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on “big” platforms, the Japanese publisher Square Enix has released a mobile puzzle Deus Ex GO.
Conferences August 17, 2016 All reports from Finnish Game Day 16 What is the Finnish gaming industry today, what difficulties its developers face and how difficult it is for Russian teams to launch their own business in this country – this and many other things were told during Finnish Game Day. All reports from the event can now be seen on App2Top.ru .