Pavel Kostin, the head of production of the Kaliningrad company HeroCraft, spoke about the results of the year in the company and the changes in Steam.

Last week, the mobile version of Punch Club, following the version for desktop devices, received a new – easy – passing mode. We talked to the authors of the game about why this was done.

10 days after the release, Super Mario Run lost its first place in the box office tops of 59 countries. But in terms of downloads, the game is still leading in several dozen regions.

Nikita Lyubimov, producer of the Interactive Stories studio, told App2Top how a year has passed for the new VGTRK gaming direction, and shared his thoughts on the main events of the year.

Endless Lake has received 12 million users in three weeks on the new Facebook Instant Games platform.

After three years of development on mobile platforms, the War Commander: Rogue Assault strategy from Kixeye has been released. The creative director of the project was one of the creators of Command & Conquer.

A Devs documentary series dedicated to the backstage of the Finnish gaming industry has been launched on YouTube.

Viktor Zakharchenko, executive director of KamaGames Studio, is leaving the company after five years of work.

At the end of the year, the Facebook social network traditionally named the best gaming projects of the platform. The main award was given to Gardenscapes by Playrix. Taonga: The Island Farm from Moscow Volka was also recognized as one of the best games. We tell you which projects have received awards.

In 2016, the total digital revenues of all games amounted to $91 billion. Most of the amount came from games for mobile platforms.

The developer of Warface and Crysis is closing five of its seven studios. The company will focus on creating premium products.

Kabam sold the Vancouver studio and part of the offices in Austin and San Francisco, along with the name of the Korean Netmarble Games. The transaction amount may be $800 million.

After reaching the mark of more than 130 million downloads, the Anglo-Belarusian company Gismart announced that it is ready to take up the publication of music-oriented games from third-party teams. We talked with the co-founder and CTO of the company Alexander Mints about where the company started and on what conditions it is ready to publish external projects.

The revenues and downloads of Super Mario Run in the first days and days turned out to be very high. Some downloads reached the 37 million mark. We tell you about the first records and indicators of the game.

Farmville developers are going to establish a new office. It will appear not far from Russia – in Finland.

The upcoming Unity 5.6 will be the latest version of Unity 5. After its release, the engine switches to a new life cycle.

The founder of Strategic Music in his personal YouTube channel during a skirmish with users said that he spent the money collected during crowdfunding on Fallout 4 on vacation. As it turned out: the service with which the money was collected, Strategic Music did not give them away.

PinOut from the Swedish Mediocre team became the leader in iOS downloads among games in November. On Google Play, the first place is taken by Danish Subway Surfers.

Canadian HTML5 game developer Big Viking has signed a five-year deal with comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment. Subject of the contract: creation of mobile games based on the IP publishing house.