Russian players spent 4% more in online games in 2016 compared to the results of the previous year. The largest growth occurred in November-December.

In the gaming industry, $30.3 billion worth of transactions were carried out in 2016. Most of them came from mergers and acquisitions, and the smaller part came from investments.

The top ten world leaders in MAU among games by the end of 2016 included projects such as Words With Friends, Color Switch and 8 Ball Pool.

Last year, mobile app publishers App Store and Google Play earned $ 35 billion. Taking into account third-party Android stores and advertising, they received $89 billion in 2016. Most of the money came from the games.

Sergey Galenkin in his blog on Medium spoke in detail about the results of 2016 on Steam. With the author’s permission, we publish a translation of his article.

Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the Interactive Cartoon VGTRK gaming direction, told App2Top how 2016 was for the company.

Roman Menyakin, Director of Business Development at Unity Eastern Europe, told App2Top about the milestones in the history of Unity Technologies over the past 12 months.

Konstantin Sakhnov, Director of the Rocket Jump gaming Department, told App2Top about how the company’s approach to working with employees has changed this year.

Nekki Vice President of Strategy and Member Sergey Babaev told App2Top about the main events and trends of the outgoing year from his point of view.

Game Insight creative producer Ilya Eremeev told App2Top what projects the company has released this year, and also noted the best mobile games of 2016.

Creative Director of Playrix Igor Elovikov told App2Top how the year went for the company and which projects became central for him in 2016.

CEO of Creative Mobile Vladimir Funtikov told App2Top what happened to the company over the year, and also highlighted the main events.

Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft, spoke about how the last 12 months have passed for the company, and also highlighted the central trends of the outgoing year.

Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev summed up the results of the outgoing year in the company and industry for App2Top.

The game producer of the Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top what happened on the social network over the past twelve months, as well as what events in the gaming industry he considers the main ones in 2016.

Maxim Babichev, the head of working with developers on the VKontakte platform, told App2Top about the main events, trends and unexpected turns in the gaming industry this year.

The VKontakte social network selected the best projects of the year and presented a list of top games released on the site in 2016.

Pixonic Executive Director Igor Klyukin shared with App2Top the results of the year.

Alexey Savchenko, Unreal Engine Licensing Manager at Epic Games, told App2Top about how the outgoing year has passed for the company.