The expansion into the Chinese market is announced by the mobile publisher with Russian roots Azur Games. The company got the opportunity to publish hyper-casual Android games with advertising monetization in China.

Today, on November 3, after two years of development, Nekki, together with Banzai Games, launched a new game in the Shadow Fight — Arena universe for worldwide release. This is a mobile fighting game with synchronous PvP. Even at the “soft launch” stage, the game showed excellent retention.

The company Azur Games, which previously specialized exclusively in mobile titles, announced the launch of its first project on consoles — battle royale Axes.io .

The head of the mobile publishing house HeroCraft tells how his department interacts with developers.

Voronezh studio Datcroft Games is preparing to release a new mobile MMO action game with MOBA elements. In an interview App2Top.ru managing partner of the company Konstantin Sakhnov told about the specifics of the development of such a project.

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has announced the launch of a new brand. It’s called MY.GAMES. Now it is on his behalf that all the company’s game projects will be released.

Wall Street banks are showing interest in the game company Playrix created in Russia. Its founders, brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman, have already met with representatives of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp.

Kaliningrad indie studio Tortuga Team, famous for the Braveland trilogy, announced the imminent release of a new game — turn-based tactics Spaceland.

According to the results of last year, the company was ranked ninth in the world in terms of earnings from software for mobile devices.

Why use celebrities and popular brands when promoting games, as well as how to do it, — says Anastasia Afonina, manager for work with key partners of Game Insight.

The QIWI payment service shared its forecast about the Russian video game market. The company’s specialists believe that by 2021, the total sales of video games in the country could reach $ 2 billion.

On February 18, the Russian publisher “Buka” announced that together with the German Koch Media will publish games of domestic developers in the USA and Europe. We talked to Alexander Kutekhov, producer of Buki, about the deal, working conditions with the teams and publishing preferences.

The Russian video game publisher, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2019, has begun expansion into foreign markets. Buka has announced that it will distribute domestic projects abroad.

Steam has published data on which new items in each individual month of 2018 were distinguished by high sales. We have identified projects developed or published by Russian-speaking companies.

Known for fritupley hiddenes for casual audience, MyTona expands its portfolio. The Yakutia-based company has announced a hardcore game. The novelty is called Manastorm: Arena of Legends, and little is known about it yet.

About the main problems and challenges in the labor market of the domestic game dev App2Top.ru I talked with the founder of the recruiting company Values Value Tanya Loktionova.

Game Recommendation Service RAWG.io launched by Kanobu founder Haji Mahtiyev, the ICO was postponed from September of this year to March next year. There are two reasons: the failure of the presale for $ 5 million and the unfavorable situation in the ICO market.

Odnoklassniki launches a contest among mobile HTML5 developers. They promise traffic, money and possible investment from the outside Mail.Ru Game Ventures. Thus, the social network wants to increase the range of projects on its mobile gaming platform.

A little joy in the feed for HTML5 developers. The Direct Games gaming platform will return to the iOS version of the VKontakte application. There will be no more IAP. But they will offer an alternative — rewarding advertising.