The Odnoklassniki social network is now introducing five new features aimed at improving the monetization of games. What are these tools App2Top.ru told one of the representatives of the network.

On July 26, the Steam Panic game from Russian indie developer Kirill Zolovkin was released. We talked to the author of the game about how the work on the project was going on and why it lasted 7 years.

After the strike of the YouTube channel and the ban of the public in VK, provoked by King, the developers of the Russian game Frontier Chronicles decided to completely change the style of the game in order to avoid any claims of the “candy” publisher in the future.

In August last year, independent developer Alexander Simakhin released the Slash Arena MMO game he made alone as a WebGL application on social networks. Today, August 3, 2017, the game was released on Steam in early access. App2Top.ru I asked Alexander about the fate of the project and whether it is now possible to create games alone and earn money from it.

Vladimir Makarychev resigned as head of the Wargaming Alliance, the publishing division of the Belarusian company, which is responsible for working with external projects.

How to adjust the balance in games in the genre of three-in-a-row, how to approach the placement of chips on the field, what can be the level editor for such games? Vitaly Kozlov, the founder of KB Production, answers these and other questions.

Last week, the preliminary launch of a new game by the Russian company Playrix took place. The project is called Homescapes. This is a three-in-a-row, whose meta-gameplay repeats Gardenscapes one-on-one, but the root mechanics are no longer focused on Fishdom, but on the latest King projects, like Candy Crush Soda Saga.

Alexander Shilyaev, the leading game designer of Playrix, told how to create new elements, make levels and work with analytics in games in the genre of “three-in-a-row” using the example of Gardenscapes.

The preliminary launch of the third part of Shadow Fight, a mobile fighting game from Russian developers from Banzai Games and Nekki, took place. The game is currently available only for residents of Canada.

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

In twelve months, the price of one share of G5 Entertainment has increased from 33.6 Swedish kronor ($4) to 302 Swedish kronor ($36.1).

The Corona game engine has started accepting applications from game developers to participate in the publishing program. Its participants will be helped with cross-promotion and purchase of users.

A new mobile publisher has appeared on the Russian market – Pride Games Studio, whose total downloads for the year since its foundation have reached 17 million. How much the company is ready to invest in the development of third-party projects and on what terms it works with teams, we talked with its founder Sergey Ivanenko.

The authors of the series Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry are going to open a second studio in Ukraine. The new unit will be located in Odessa.

In June, the Russian social network Fotostrana celebrated its ninth birthday. We talked with Leonid Katz, CRO of the social network, about what she can offer the game developer today.

Mail.Ru The Group has announced a major update to its myTracker analytical system. Dmitry Krutitsky, the project manager, told us how the platform has changed since the announcement in 2015 and what it can do today.

Gameplay videos of the Frontier Chronicles midcore strategy from the kimbee St. Petersburg team were blocked on YouTube at the request of the authors of Candy Crush Saga.

Swedish public company with Russian roots G5 Entertainment has announced the opening of a new office. It is based in the west of Ukraine, in Lviv.

Pixonic’s leading game designer Artur Mostovoy announced a new first–person shooter game for virtual reality devices War Robots VR: The Skirmish on the pages of the company’s official blog.