The other day on App2Top.ru there was a live broadcast with Anton Vinogradov, co—founder of the Samustai studio, which is engaged in porting indie titles to the console and publishing them. We talked in detail about the process of transferring games, optimization and the difficulties of working with different platforms. They also touched upon business processes, including revenue distribution, features of console marketing and sales.

On November 5, Red Dead Redemption 2 will be available on PC. The game was released last year on PS4 and Xbox One, becoming a hit. In less than a year, its sales amounted to 25 million copies.

We wondered if the appearance of an initially mobile project on PC would be an important event for the mobile games industry?

The creators of the Marmalade SDK cross-platform toolkit yesterday announced a new Marmalade Juice solution that simplifies porting iOS games to Android.

Vladimir Kolesnikov, an expert on strategic technologies at Microsoft, gave an exclusive interview to the App2Top portal. As part of a rather lengthy conversation, we discussed the reason for creating separate operating systems for smartphones and tablets, the issue of porting applications to them, as well as the features of monetization of games on Windows 8 and WP8.