Every week, we release interviews on YouTube with gaming experts discussing various aspects of their work. We will also now post separate text-based blitz interviews with our speakers, but these will be “locked.” For instance, today we released a one-hour conversation on YouTube with Anastasia Smirnova on the topic “How to Create a Good Narrative for a Casual Game?” The accompanying content for this video is this article where we’ve already discussed the challenges facing…

The first Turkish event by WN Media Group was held in April 2022. Since then, the company has organized nine events in the country. A week from now, the tenth event will take place—on June 18, WN Istanbul’26 will open its doors. We spoke with Yulia Lebedeva, Executive Director and Partner of the company, about how the Turkish gaming industry has changed over these four years.

As a guest on App2Top is the founder of Misterial Games, Sergey Alarsky, who has also assisted other teams as a consultant.

In 2025, entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan faced restrictions from local regulators. These measures were implemented due to pressure from European and North American countries. This sudden change significantly impacted IT teams that had recently relocated to the country from Russia. We discussed this with the Head of Sales at Salary.cab, Daniil Popov.

We spoke with Anton Chuev, an experienced game development specialist who single-handedly creates complex games using AI, about the opportunities and pitfalls of such development.

We discussed in detail how countries around the world are starting to tighten verification rules in games with Natalia Vozyan, who holds the position of VP of Legal & Operations at the company Xsolla.

The competition in the video game market continues to intensify, the cost of user acquisition remains high, and investors have become noticeably more cautious. We spoke with the founder and game designer of New Edge, Mikhail A. Petrov, about the mistakes that are currently costing gaming startups the most in this environment.

On November 26, the full release of the MMORPG Reign of Guilds by the St. Petersburg team Atlant Games took place. The App2Top team spoke with the developers about the journey to release and the intricacies of creating old-school online projects.

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.