On November 26, a remake of Sublustrum, a cult Russian adventure game by Phantomery Interactive, was announced. The App2Top editorial team discussed the development of the new game and what it will entail with Georgy Beloglazov, founder and CEO of Brickworks Games.

At the end of October, the cooperative multiplayer game Superball by the Chinese indie studio Pathea Games was released. The studio is best known for their life simulation hit, My Time at Portia. The project took a long time to reach a full release and is still experiencing difficulties. We spoke with Yao Liu, one of the key developers of Superball, about the project’s journey and the hopes of its developers.

In light of the recent developments surrounding the decline of the skins market for Counter-Strike 2, we decided to delve deeper into the topic to understand how businesses operate in this niche. We talked to Artem Klin, CEO of the platform RUNCASE, which specializes in creating cases for “Counter-Strike.” We asked him about how his company generates revenue and whether there’s any growth.

In an interview with App2Top, the top executives of the media franchise — Roman Goroshkin, Alexander Minkin, and Yaropolk Rash — discussed in detail the upcoming MMORPG “Sineus“, their immediate plans for its development, and the unique aspects of working at Sineus Publishing, a publishing and label company aspiring to achieve the gaming equivalent of Blumhouse Productions.

We spoke with Yaroslav Kravtsov, who has been developing games on Roblox for over five years, about the features of the platform.

I talked with Kesha about how he manages to single-handedly develop and promote an experimental project for Steam with the help of AI today.

We spoke with Vitaly about how medicine, billiards, and filming a music show led him into game development. A gigantic personal interview.

We’re launching a new interview format — extensive personal stories. We begin with a conversation with Dmitry Morozov, who has been in the industry for over 25 years. He co-founded Panzar and worked on games like “Vangers,” “Perimeter,” “Dungeon Cleaners,” and “Fight Club.” Currently, he is the co-founder and creative director of the Cyprus-based studio Rightsoft Labs, which recently released the mobile battler Mech vs. Aliens. We talked to Dmitry about how funding for development…

On the topic of what indie is, how many game developers there are in Russia, and what their main problem is, the editorial team of App2Top spoke with the co-founder of the marketing agency FatPony, the head of publishing at Indie GO Fund, and author of the Telegram channel “Weary Publishing” Danila Kamenev.

In June, a multiplayer third-person shooter Bullet Yeeters will be released on Steam. App2Top conducted a short interview with Alexey Doroshev, co-founder of Yeeters Team, to discuss how much the game cost the team and why Concord failed.

In September of last year, the Kupikod platform announced plans to invest in development and publishing. Six months later, the App2Top editorial team spoke with Nikolay Borovikov, who is responsible for this direction in the company, to discuss what has been happening within this initiative.

Recently, there was an announcement for DreadMoor, an adventure game about fishing in a post-apocalyptic world with nods to the indie hit Dredge. The App2Top editorial team spoke with Rostislav Fedorov, CEO and co-founder of the Russian studio Dream Dock Games, which is developing the game, to discuss the team, the project, Wishlist targets, and budgets.

At the end of March, CarX Technologies announced CarX Drift Racing Online 2, and recently it got a page on Steam. App2Top spoke with Vladimir Berezhny, the project PM, about how long the game has been in development and how many wishlists the team plans to gather by release.

On Monday, March 3rd, Astrum Entertainment unveiled the beta version of their proprietary launcher — Astrum Play. The company positions it as a gaming platform of its own development. App2Top spoke with Sergey Efremov, Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment, about the reasons behind the service’s launch and its immediate future.

Especially for App2Top, former owner of “Kanobu” and “Igromania,” Gadzhi Makhtiev commented on the sale and discussed the significant challenges currently facing the industry, in his opinion.

This morning, February 28, it was officially announced that ownership of two popular Russian gaming resources has changed hands. Media manager Gadji Makhtiev transferred the general management of “Kanobu” and “Igromania” to Vasily Ovchinnikov, co-founder of the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI). The App2Top editorial team discussed the deal with him.

In January, the company “1С” (not to be confused with 1C Game Studios) released the mobile battler “The Three Heroes: Adventure Arena,” created with the support of the animation studio “Melnitsa” and the Internet Development Institute (IRI). The editorial team of App2Top spoke with Timur Musin, the project manager, about the game’s history and development plans.

In early February, it became known that Yandex acquired the rights to the trademarks “IgroMir” and Comic Con Russia. Accordingly, App2Top spoke with a representative of the corporation about the reasons for this deal and why they didn’t buy KRI.

Recently, “Buka” presented a list of amendments and recommendations for the draft law “On the Activities of Developing and Distributing Video Games in the Russian Federation,” which was submitted for consideration to the State Duma on December 12 by a group of deputies and senators led by Anton Gorelkin. The App2Top editorial team spoke with Alexander Tebuev, CEO of “Buka,” about why the company prepared comments and whether they will be considered by lawmakers.