On October 13, the St. Petersburg division of Wargaming announced the second enrollment in the Wargaming Academy educational project. We talked to the company about this initiative.

“The companion app for Apple Watch has quadrupled the number of sessions and ARPDAU of the mobile game “Mirrors of Albion” among owners of Apple watches,“ he said App2Top.ru Game Insight Innovation Director Andrey Ivashentsev at the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference.

On August 25, the world release of the next hit from Playrix – Gardenscapes took place. A month later, the analytical company App Annie noted that the launch of the game, among other things, helped the developer enter the Top 20 largest publishers of mobile games in the world. About why Gardenscapes was relaunched from the hidden format to match-3, about the differences from the previous version and about the first results. App2Top.ru I talked…

As part of White Nights Moscow 2016, Game Insight officially unveiled its new project – Guns of Boom mobile shooter, which is now being released in Russia on Android. About the game and its history App2Top.ru Maxim Donskikh, president of the company, told us.

Last week, the Russian company 1C announced the mobile game “Space Rangers: Legacy”. We talked about the new project with the company’s producer Denis Maltsev.

“Is the game design of a visual novel a myth or reality?Vera Velichko, founder and art director of the Moscow studio OWL-studio, answers this question in the fourth issue of the diaries of the game One Day in London.

Domestic developers who make “their Fallout” are often laughed at. Such teams are usually very young, very ambitious and have no idea what game development is. After a collision with reality, their ambitions instantly burn out, and with them the desire to finish the job.

Last Friday, September 30, the Minsk studio MintFrogs presented the trailer of its new project – League of Arosaurs. We talked about the studio and the project with the founder and CEO of the studio, Matvey Fedorenciko.

At the end of August, a full-fledged release of the new Master of Orion, developed jointly by NGD Studios and Wargaming, took place. About how the game was being developed, App2Top.ru told Alexander Zezyulin, R&D Operations Director at Wargaming.

This summer, the Codex of Victory wargame from the Russian team Ino-Co, the authors of the Code of War and the Warlok series, was released to “Early Access” on Steam. We talked about the fate of the project with the general director of the studio Alexey Kozyrev.

The Russian company Playrix is not only the leading local publisher in terms of revenue from mobile projects in the CIS, but the number two at the box office in mid-September among all mobile game studios from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia.

DataLead has launched the Appness platform, a platform for direct interaction between media buyers and advertisers interested in attracting traffic from Facebook. Why such a service is needed, how it works and why buying traffic from Facebook on your own is not the most effective solution, the creators of Appness themselves told us.

In the third issue of the development diaries, the OWL-studio team shares how they worked on emotions for the characters in One Day in London.

About the history of Hybrid Wars development, the project itself, as well as working with WG Labs, – App2Top.ru I talked to the Extreme Developers team.

On the eve of the second wave of closed beta testing of action-MMO “Pirates: Allods Online“, which starts on September 15, we talked with the project manager Alexey Kornev about the history of the game and the specifics of its development.

The author of Cut the Rope and King of Thieves, the Moscow company ZeptoLab, is looking for new games to publish. About what ZeptoLab expects from projects and what it is ready to offer to developers, App2Top.ru Mikhail Sviblov, the head of the company’s publishing direction, told the audience.

Sergey Korolev, CEO of the Russian Magisterion studio, announced the closure of the mobile direction and the abandonment of Unity. Sergey told about the reasons for leaving App2Top.ru .

Odnoklassniki is going to pay developers only 10% of the Bonus Shackles spent by network users in games.

On August 25, the game Party Hard turned one year old. In this regard, we talked with its developer – the Ukrainian team Pinokl Games – about the history of the project and how it was conducted after its launch on Steam.