App Annie analytical company summed up the results of last year by releasing (including in Russian) its retrospective report. Read about the most important thing in it in our material.

The Skillz service for esports competitions is becoming cross-platform. Users of Android devices will be able to compete with owners of iOS devices and receive prizes for it. Including money.

The author of the Dragon Quest franchise Yuji Horii shared with the readers of his Twitter account a disdok of the very first game in the series.

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru Group announced the launch of the information and research project “The gaming industry in Russia and the world“.

VGTRK has launched the Interactive Cartoon brand, under which it will produce children’s games based on its cartoon franchises. We talked with Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction, about the brand and the industry.

Rovio announced the exact release date of The Angry Birds Movie.

Microsoft will release a version of Minecraft for teaching schoolchildren. A game called Minecraft: Education Edition will be released this summer.

Eric Seufert, Vice President of Acquisition and User Engagement at Rovio, told during the Pocket Gamer Connects London 2016 conference which trends will be the main ones in 2016.

During this week, the price tags in the Russian App Store will grow.

The authors of Monument Valley shared their plans for the next year. The ustwo team will become bigger and part with the main artist.

Moscow-based game developer and publisher Nekki announced that today, January 15, the total number of installations of the Shadow Fight 2 mobile fighting game amounted to 100 million.

The game company Plarium, the creator of Nords: Heroes of the North, is launching a studio in London. The new branch will be headed by the ex-head of the gaming department at Goodgame Studios, Olliver Heins.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is recognized as the most influential person in the industry. The title was awarded to the Cat by the marketing company ScribbleLive during the CES 2016 exhibition.

The St. Petersburg studio Orc Work is currently working on its second game – the role-playing battler Evilibrium II. A closed alpha testing of the project has recently started. In this regard, we talked with the producer of the team about preparing the game for release.

A team of developers from Ankara has announced an application for creating mobile games. The project called Gamelooper will launch on January 22.

Children from Southeast Asia spend more time playing mobile games than children from the United States. This is the conclusion reached by the startup from the USA SuperAwesome according to the results of the study.

The post of co-president of Activision Blizzard Studios was taken by a producer with 20 years of experience Stacey Sher (Stacey Sher). Cher will work on film and TV adaptations of the company’s main franchises.

The author of the Monkey Island series of games, the Grim Fandango quest and the Psychonauts platformer, Tim Schafer, shared tips on managing the game development team.

About what should (or should not) read if you decide to become a game designer, App2Top.ru told by Artur Ostapenko, Svyatoslav Torik, Andrey “Krank” Kuzmin, Leonid Sirotin, Ilya Yeremeev and Dmitry Nozhnin.