In Team17, famous for the Worms series and the publication of The Escapists strategy, $21.8 million (£16.5 million) was invested by the investment company Lloyds Development Capital (LDC).

On August 25, the game Party Hard turned one year old. In this regard, we talked with its developer – the Ukrainian team Pinokl Games – about the history of the project and how it was conducted after its launch on Steam.

The French company Bulkypix, which was engaged in the publication of mobile games, is in the process of liquidation. Developers who have signed contracts with her cannot receive money from the company.

What is a meta-game in games, what it is responsible for and why both developers of fritupley and premium products should remember about it,” said Andrey Kosciusko, director and game designer of Creoteam in his blog. With the kind permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

In pursuit of the long-published videos from the last White Nights St.Petersburg 2016, today we are posting videos with two round tables on monetization. In the first, we discussed how to monetize games correctly, and in the second video, in general, about the promotion of mobile games.

Among all regions, the highest average monthly ARPU for iPhone games from the box office Top 30 is in Japan. China is in second place. The average ARPU for top US games is only in third position.

The children’s game “Mi-mi-bears” has gained more than 1 million downloads in four months in the CIS. In this regard, we talked with Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction, about the project, its development and the children’s games market.

The beta version of the next update to the Unity engine has become available for download – Unity 5.5. About the most important innovations – in our material.

On the official Twitter page of the SteamSpy service, which is led by the founder of the service Sergey Galenkin, two gaming tops have appeared. One shows the games that have lost the largest part of their active audience in two weeks since the release, and the second shows the games that, on the contrary, have acquired the largest number of online users in relation to the first day.

By the end of this year, the French gaming giant Ubisoft is closing six open-ended projects. It is believed that this is due to the company’s desire to focus on developing and supporting only premium products.

The Google Play mobile app store has announced its own event dedicated to indie games.

Recently, Zynga released a new farm under the FarmVille franchise. The novelty is dedicated to business development on a tropical island. About the first session of the game – in our material.

SOOMLA has collected in one post indicators by which you can roughly estimate how successful the game turned out to be. We share.

The director of Scream School told App2Top.ru about the history of the school, how its processes are built, as well as who and what it teaches.

Crytek has released the latest version of the CryEngine engine – CryEngine 5.2, and also announced the opportunity to receive a $1 million grant from the fund for indie developers.

After the publication of the financial report for the first half of 2016, the capitalization of CD Projekt, which owns CD Projekt RED and GOG.com , crossed the mark of $1 billion (4 billion zlotys).

About the magic of slots, the types of game designers, how Rayman Legends teaches players to look for secret places on the level and much more – in our selection of the most interesting materials of last week.

The Russian company Playrix yesterday, August 25, published a new three-in-a-row – Gardenscapes. During the day, the game was downloaded more than 1 million times, and in the American App Store it began to earn more per day than Juice Jam and Zynga Poker.

This Saturday, August 27, a game jam for Russian-speaking developers will begin, the participants of which will have to develop an HTML game on the Defold engine for a month to win. The interest in jam brought Russia to the top countries in terms of the number of registrations of the King engine.