50 people could fall under the reduction.

The publisher of Bowmasters and Tomb of the Mask has taken on a massive recruitment of employees in the Minsk office. The company wants to attract about 100 new employees to it in the near future.

Founded by people from Belarus, Playgendary has once again entered the Top 3 world leaders in mobile downloads among gaming companies. This became known from the App Annie index for the past October.

Today, on September 4, Belka Games studio launched a charity event in the Watchmaker game. All the money earned inside the event will be used to support programs United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). We talked to Yuri Krasilnikov, the company’s business development director, about the details of the event and why the company is taking part in it.

The authors of Bowmasters and Flip the Gun announced the opening of two offices in Russia — Moscow and St. Petersburg. The company plans to hire 110 employees for them, bringing its total staff to 300 people.

At the end of June, Robin Hood Legends was released. This is a new game by the Belarusian studio Neskinsoft. The game is published by Big Fish. The novelty is a puzzle in which the authors mix the principles of classic match-3 fritupley with the mechanics of Triple Town.

Recruiting agency Values Value has published a study on salaries in the CIS gaming industry for 2018. We have prepared a short version of the report, which focused on the salaries of market specialists.

The authors of the three-in-a-row “Watchmaker” announced the joining of the mobile studio Leda Games. The most famous project of the latter is the three—in-a-row “Knitted Story” with more than 500 thousand installations on Google Play.

Awem Games, founded in Mogilev, known for the three-in-a-row Cradle of Empires, received a business development director. He became 32-year-old Timofey Fadeev, who was previously responsible for a similar area in the advertising startup BuzzGuru and the Chinese studio IGG, known for games such as Castle Clash and Lords Mobile.

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has launched a game project development center “Igro Tek” in the capital of Belarus. Now he is looking for specialists familiar with CryEngine. One of the startup’s managers is Alla Vasilyeva. She was responsible for development in the Minsk office of Wargaming for more than ten years.

The Minsk-based studio Vizor has reported on the successful launch of its social blockbuster “Klondike: The Missing Expedition” on mobile platforms. In just seven days since the global launch, the project has reached the mark of 1 million downloads.

In the spring of 2017, the Ukrainian company Values Value, founded by Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko), conducted a large-scale survey of gaming industry specialists from the CIS about salaries. App2Top.ru publishes excerpts from the results of the study.

Alexander Bogdanov, who led the St. Petersburg studio Game Insight and Nord Quantum, became the CEO of Minsk-based Belka Games, the developer of the Watchmaker.

How can I increase LTV if the application has been on the market for several years and has stopped developing? Gismart managed to do this by turning the music app into a game about drums.

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.

The developers of Bring Me Cakes, one of the first games on Defold, told why they work on it, as well as what to expect from the feature on iOS if you release a paid game.

In the tank multiplayer blockbuster Wargaming, there will be story PvE campaigns that can be carried out alone. One of the tasks of the update is to reach a new audience.

Wargaming has pre-launched the action-MMO World of Warships Blitz on the App Store and Google Play.

According to the results of last month, the game Real Piano from the Belarusian-British developer Gismart entered the Top 10 leaders in total downloads on the App Store and Google Play among games.