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.

The former general producer of Game Insight Leonid Sirotin said App2Top.ru about what interested and disappointed him in the outgoing year.

Almost half of the mobile devices activated during the December holidays belong to Apple. The information was shared by the analytical company Flurry.

Roman Menyakin, Director of Business Development at Unity in Russia, told App2Top about the past year.

Mentor of the “Games Market” category on vc.ru and Nekki Development Director Sergey Babaev shared with App2Top his thoughts about the outgoing year.

The movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stimulated downloads and sales in mobile games based on the franchise. This is according to the results of its own research, the mobile analytics company Sensor Tower reports.

Kirill Petrov, co-founder of i-Free and Managing director of Zillion Whales, told App2Top about the main trends and the best games of 2015.

Ryan Cash from a small indie company Snowman talked to the resource 80.lv about the mobile game Alto’s Adventure. Cash spoke about how the project was created, about the choice of style and about the biggest problems of indie development.