Mobile developer Traplight announced the completion of the investment round with a result of $2.7 billion. The total investment in the company reached $5 million.

Organic downloads of the Build Away game! Futureplay studios grew by 110% after a YouTube campaign conducted by the Finnish firm Matchmade.

The Facebook social network allowed users to broadcast from laptops and desktop PCs.

Chrono digital store.gg raised $1 million in investments. Chrono feature.gg is that the platform sells only one game in a certain period of time.

A report by Gabor Senasi (Gábor Szénási) from the Pixel Federation. He talks about the experience of releasing and operating a mobile game about a miner.

A report by Petr Kolář from Bohemia Interactive. He talks about the experience of integrating DLC into Arma series games.

Last year, the Chinese corporation Tencent earned $ 10.3 billion on online games, which is 25% higher than in 2015.

Employees of the Rodeo Games studio have opened the company Perchang, where they are developing a continuation of the tactical role-playing game Warhammer Quest in the Warhammer Fantasy universe from Games Workshop.

What a game designer should always remember, Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.

Former Director of Marketing and Communications at Rambler&Co Mikhail Dobrov became a member of the team Wargaming.net . In the new place, Dobrov will lead the promotion of World of Tanks in CIS as the head of the marketing department.

Google has made available a test build of the Android O operating system. You can download it from the developer page.

HacknPlan, an online project management platform, will launch on April 3. The program resembles the Trello manager, but is tailored to the tasks of game developers.

According to the results of last month, the game Real Piano from the Belarusian-British developer Gismart entered the Top 10 leaders in total downloads on the App Store and Google Play among games.

We continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert.

A report by Mark Heinz (Mike Hines), an evangelist from Amazon. His speech is dedicated to the promotion of games without buying traffic.

Report by Natalie Portier, Chief Operating Officer of Appodeal. She talks about how to advertise in mobile projects.

Activision has signed a partnership agreement with Chinese developer Elex to create a mobile game based on the Call of Duty franchise.

App Annie has published lists of the most popular and profitable mobile games in February 2017. The most successful projects of the month included Honor of Kings, Real Piano and Fire Emblem Heroes.

Japanese developer and publisher GungHo Online Entertainment (GOE) has become one of the global sponsors of the World Baseball Classic 2017.