Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the Interactive Cartoon VGTRK gaming direction, told App2Top how 2016 was for the company.

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Roman Menyakin, Director of Business Development at Unity Eastern Europe, told App2Top about the milestones in the history of Unity Technologies over the past 12 months.

Chinese players know English quite well, while Russian players prefer Action to other genres. The localization company All Correct Games came to these and other conclusions as a result of its research.

The organizers of the White Nights conference announced the nominees for the award for professional merit in the industry for the 2016 Game Industry Awards.

Konstantin Sakhnov, Director of the Rocket Jump gaming Department, told App2Top about how the company’s approach to working with employees has changed this year.

Nekki Vice President of Strategy and Member Sergey Babaev told App2Top about the main events and trends of the outgoing year from his point of view.

Game Insight creative producer Ilya Eremeev told App2Top what projects the company has released this year, and also noted the best mobile games of 2016.

Chinese games are becoming more and more popular outside of China. The number of projects from the PRC that got into the Top 1000 popular games in the world (excluding China itself) doubled in 2016. The most loyal markets to Chinese products are Indonesia, Brazil, India and Russia.

In 2016, about 40 VR and AR projects were launched in Russia. Most of them received investments in the amount of $ 15 thousand to $ 30 thousand.

Game designer from Denmark Shurd De Jong, known for his work on Unreal Tournament 2004, Killzone and Syndicate, made his game development books and Unreal Engine tutorials free.

Creative Director of Playrix Igor Elovikov told App2Top how the year went for the company and which projects became central for him in 2016.

CEO of Creative Mobile Vladimir Funtikov told App2Top what happened to the company over the year, and also highlighted the main events.

Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft, spoke about how the last 12 months have passed for the company, and also highlighted the central trends of the outgoing year.

Estimated at $18 billion, the Snapchat messenger is trying out game formats. For Christmas, the developers have introduced a new filter that allows the user to play for himself in a dwarf costume.

Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev summed up the results of the outgoing year in the company and industry for App2Top.

The game producer of the Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top what happened on the social network over the past twelve months, as well as what events in the gaming industry he considers the main ones in 2016.

Maxim Babichev, the head of working with developers on the VKontakte platform, told App2Top about the main events, trends and unexpected turns in the gaming industry this year.

The VKontakte social network selected the best projects of the year and presented a list of top games released on the site in 2016.