In June, the Russian social network Fotostrana celebrated its ninth birthday. We talked with Leonid Katz, CRO of the social network, about what she can offer the game developer today.

The Playkot team is releasing a mobile version of the SuperCity builder to the world this summer. We talked with the authors of the project about how the work on the new game was going on and about the processes within the company.

In mid–January, the open beta of the mobile MOBA from Fast Forward Studio – Planet of Heroes was released. We talked with the head of the studio Ivan Fedyanin about where he was looking for people for the team, why he decided to make a MOBA and how the story campaign is embedded in it.

The authors of the popular Braveland, the Tortuga Team, released their first shareware project and told us about it (this interview was released back in January, but today we learned a little bit of details, which we share).

Recently, the world launch of the game “Evolution: Heroes of Utopia“, a clicker in the universe of the role-playing strategy “Evolution”, took place. Head of the mobile direction My.com Alexander Enin told us about the tasks of the project.

At the White Nights 2014 conference, we interviewed Dmitry Terekhin from Nekki.

How much the localization of the game costs, why it is needed, how the translation of the game takes place — about this and much more in our interview with All Correct Localization.

“You are releasing a game on iOS. The chance of being featured is less than beating the casino. After the release, you will get to the 600-700 place and are unlikely to get more than a couple hundred installations in a month,” – about the experience of switching from the social market to the mobile market in an interview with CEO Nika Entertainment Maxim Slobodyanyuk. 

We continue a series of interviews with companies selling traffic. This time we talked to the guys from the Ukrainian Clinic.

Apple has added a video to the product page in the App Store. A similar honor was awarded to the game Clumsy Ninja, which is advertised with a minute trailer.

As part of the Slush conference, held recently in Helsinki, App2Top managed to talk with the executive director of Grand Cru, Markus Pasula, who spoke in detail about his view on the development of mobile games.

Yesterday, a new mobile game from Nival – Defenders appeared on the App Store (it was released on PC under the title Prime World: Defenders). In connection with the release, we talked about the fate of the project with Sergey Galenkin, EMEA Marketing Director of the Prime World team. 

Oleg Kapitonov, the founder of the BlackBears game studio, told us about the SQBA service, which allows you to customize applications for specific users without releasing full-fledged updates in the store.

At the end of October, Yandex introduced its own free analytical service created for mobile application developers. In connection with its launch, we talked with Alexander Kochubey, manager of Yandex.Metrica. 

Kiev Casual Connect has long passed, a number of other equally interesting events are on the nose, but we could not resist the temptation to catch the director of “connect” and ask what she thinks about the future of the industry.

Last week we started a series of materials about companies selling traffic. A sequel is coming out today. This time we talked to Trademob. 

On the last day of Kiev Casual Connect, we caught Mo Yang and Yamamoto Aki from DeNA and asked them about the Japanese market. 

The company Alawar recently published the game Heroes War in Russian (in domestic markets – “Gangs: Kings of the streets”) from Com2uS. In connection with the recent release, we interviewed the Novosibirsk team and asked about cooperation with the Koreans.