With the release of the new iOS, Apple has updated its online app store. We asked our readers, developers and publishers of mobile apps, to share their opinions about iOS 6. 

The other day we had an interesting conversation with Oleg Pridiuk, a technical evangelist from Unity Technologies. We talked about the advantages of the Unity engine and myths about it, about the company as a whole and its strategic plans, as well as why St. Petersburg can be called the heart of Russian game development. 

Edmund McMillen, author and developer of the games Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac, in an interview with Gamezebo shared his thoughts on the state of the gaming industry, talked about parody games and why video games are a separate art form. In addition, he told a funny story about how his colleague experimented with the price.

Today, two of the only employees and founders of the Swedish indie gaming studio Simogo distinguished themselves at the GDC Europe held in Cologne. The guys shared their opinions on how to succeed by doing what you like and not listening to anyone around.

Alex Patsay, Head of the mobile direction Mail.Ru Group, after his speech at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, talked about how often updates should be released, which channels of promotion of mobile games are most important, how much you need to spend to earn a million, etc.

Every day there are fewer and fewer companies in the mobile games market that firmly adhere to the paid distribution model. Most of them have either already transferred, or are transferring their projects to the “shareware” type of monetization. However, one of the authors of Ticket to Ride claims that this is nothing more than a fashion that will soon pass. 

“There will be a little more headache associated with graphics,” says Evgeny Kuzmin, responsible for the release of the hit Cover Orange, and also well-known online under the nickname Johnny-K. His answers to questions about yesterday’s release of a new device in the iPad line can be found inside.

The success of the funny Draw Something application indicates that virality in the mobile gaming business is not only there, but is also able to bring the original application to the top without attracting large advertising budgets. 

About a month ago, the seventh conference of developers and publishers of flash, social and mobile games Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011 was held in Kiev. We offer a video from the presentation of Maxim Grynev aka Mokus, the creator of the game Contre Jour, which has collected many international awards.

The history of the Playrix company began in 2002, when two brothers – one a student, the other still a schoolboy – developed their first mini-game during the last month of the summer holidays; in 2004 they already founded their own company. Playrix gained worldwide fame as developers of high-quality downloadable casual games. Now the company is actively developing in the mobile direction. Igor Bukhman, co-founder and president of Playrix products, told us about what…

Interview with Infinite Dreams, the authors of the recent super iOS hit Jelly Defense. In the App Store, the game quickly found itself on the 1st place in the Strategy and Kids subcategories in almost all countries, despite the fact that Jelly Defense is available only in English. Marek Wyszynki, one of the founders of the company, told us about his achievements, views on development, promotion and monetization.

Vasily Popov and Roman Sidorov from SilentAppsTeam told the portal about how they launched their applications in the App Store, what actions they took and what came of it (the material of the information resource “Habrahabr” was used). The story is told in the first person.

We offer the second part of an exclusive interview with Ville HEIJARI, Vice President of Rovio Ent. Read the beginning here.

Ville HEIJARI, vice president of Rovio Ent., the company that created the super-hit Angry Birds, told us about what is important for a good game, how long it took them to develop and how the company plans to develop further.

Interviews with small companies Paladin Studios from the Netherlands and Platinum Apps from Australia: Derk de Geus and David Stallard will share their experience in developing applications for mobile platforms and give advice to novice developers.

The Fluffies game for iPhone appeared almost 2 years ago. It was made in Rostov-on-Don by a small development team called Argonyt. Cute fluffy animals, although they did not have time to conquer the whole world yet, achieved good results: they reached the second place in Top Paid in Russia and Germany, entered the Top ten FREE in 8 more countries, and also took first place in the subcategories Family and KIDs in almost 20…

The Cover Orange game for iPad and iPhone appeared at the end of 2010 (November 17 and December 13, respectively). During its existence, it has been both paid and free; almost two months ago, the possibility of in-game purchases appeared in it. In mid-August, the game reached the third line of Top Paid iPhone Apps USA, and since its release, both versions have earned almost a million dollars. The author of the application Evgeny Kuzmin,…

Representatives of RIM, Andrey Kiselyov and Ola Larsen spoke at the MobileFest conference, which was held in September near St. Petersburg. They talked about the capabilities of devices on the BlackBerry® platform – in particular, they presented a new PlayBook tablet and even played it among the conference participants.