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.

Over the past year, the number of downloads of the paid Monument Valley adventure game from ustwo has increased 10 times.

The authors of Empire Z apologized for copying Game of War and in the future will “remove game elements” from their own project. This will be the end of the conflict between Machine Zone studios and Ember Entertainment.

Kabam fulfills its promise to focus only on the most successful titles. The company sells some of its own mobile games to the Chinese publisher Gaea Mobile.

At the end of December, Gameloft released the mobile fighting game Gods Of Rome. We talked about the game economy and asynchronous PvP with project manager Eduardo Oriza Seral.

Over the past year, users have left $20 billion in the App Store. This became known from the official press release of Apple.

Head of the mobile direction My.com Alexander Enin shared with App2Top.ru their thoughts, including why mobile developers now need to take up the creation of MMORPGs.

Sergey Bruy , co-founder and Managing Partner of Vizor Interactive , told App2Top.ru about the state of the social games market and the company’s plans.

Executive Director of Nevosoft Pavel Ryakkonen shared with App2Top.ru he remembered the events of 2015.

Nekki CEO Dmitry Terekhin in his material for App2Top.ru he told not only about the trends of the outgoing year, but also brought news about the company’s physics engine, which may become available to everyone next year.

Andrey Pryakhin, CEO of Kefir, shared with App2Top.ru thoughts about the most important events of the year.