A selection of the most profitable publishers of applications on the mobile market for 2017 has appeared on the web. The most interesting thing about it: the emergence of new names and the high position of the casual colossus Playrix, based in Russia.

Among the most popular iOS search queries in December in the USA are Deer Hunter 2018 and Pixel Gun 3D. However, the leader is a request for Belarusian Pixel Art.

What you should remember when you are going to show the project to the publisher, – Elena Devina, marketing director of CreaGames, tells in her note.

Prepare for the unexpected. The Steam digital PC games store has published several selections of the best-selling games of the past year. In addition to the obvious titles, like PUBG and ARK, there are enough not so well-known names in it.

Unexpected. This is how we can describe in one word a selection of the best games from Facebook for the past year. The fact is that the main draft of the final list is far from being heard by the general public.

In November, a new fighting game from Nekki – Shadow Fight 3 – ranked seventh in the world in total downloads among mobile games.

It is impossible to criticize micropayments, setting as an example projects like Mario, Zelda or Uncharted. They are created to sell consoles and fight back differently than the projects of most teams.

What consequences should the Russian gaming industry expect after the introduction of mandatory identification of gamers by phone number and what are the questions to the initiative, – App2Top.ru he told me Valentin Merzlikin, evangelist of Creative Mobile publishing, and Evgenia Alexandrova, Business Development Manager at CreaGames.

My first thought was when it became known yesterday that online games in Russia will be obliged to identify users: how will this affect the conversion and, as a result, the cost of traffic. As it turned out, I was thinking about the wrong thing.

In November 2017, the world release of the mobile fighting game Shadow Fight 3 by the Russian Nekki took place. The company’s founder Dmitry Terekhin and Business Development Director Nikita Korzhavin spoke about the key stages of Shadow Fight 3 development.

In October, the Homescapes game helped Playrix overtake Electronic Arts and Konami in monthly revenue from the App Store. This became known from the updated list of the most profitable gaming companies in the world according to App Annie.

What questions can a candidate be asked for the position of a mobile game producer, what tasks should he be ready for, – he shared on his Facebook page Ilya Eremeev, who previously served as a creative producer of Game Insight, and now is an executive producer at Mail.ru Games Ventures.

Game development is not the healthiest activity today. This is the opinion of Jason Schreier, editor of Kotaku and author of the book about the difficult life of developers “Sweat, Blood and Pixels”. Why so, he told on the pages of The New York Times. We offer a short translation of the material.

How was the work on the paid version of Shadow Fight 2 going and how much she was able to earn, – Nikita Korzhavin, director of business Development at Nekki, told on his Facebook page. With the permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Activision a patent for using the method of “stimulating [making] microtransactions in multiplayer games.”

On October 1, the interactive book for children “Green Riding Hood” by the Russian-Belarusian Bobaka team became the “App of the Day” on iOS 11. We tell you how it happened and what results it led to.

In the summer of 2017, the Kaliningrad Tortuga Team released the fourth part of the turn-based strategy Braveland with the subtitle Heroes. We talked with the creative director of the studio Anton Mikhailov about how the work on the project was going.

What role is assigned to people who write in the development of games, – the writer Sergey Chekmaev told at the Higher School of Business Informatics of the Higher School of Economics within the framework of the program “Management of game projects“. We give a brief version of the speech.

Why indie developers should stop lowering the price tags for their games and take advantage of the experience of the creator of The Witness, – Sergey Galenkin, the author of Steam Spy and the main publisher of Epic Games in Eastern Europe, told on the pages of his English–language blog. App2Top.ru publishes a translation of the material with the kind permission of the author.