The Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top.ru how the income of their developers is distributed by genre. She also revealed that she had paid ₽100 million to mobile developers in five months.

App Annie shared with App2Top.ru a list of the highest-grossing games developed by teams that were based in the post-Soviet space. The main selection criterion is that the game should have earned $25 million or more from January to June 2018. There were eleven such projects in total.

The Russian indie game Stoneshard has raised more than $ 100 thousand on Kickstarter. How did she manage it, App2Top.ru I asked the publisher of the project, HypeTrain Digital.

The developers of the War Robots mobile action game from Pixonic are preparing to launch their game on the iDreamSky platform, one of the largest Chinese publishers.

Recruiting agency Values Value has published a study on salaries in the CIS gaming industry for 2018. We have prepared a short version of the report, which focused on the salaries of market specialists.

In the spring of 2018, the average check of Russian players for MMO games for PC was 955 rubles ($16). Such data was provided by the WebMoney Transfer settlement system and the PayMaster payment service.

On June 7, the world release of the new game Nekki — football manager 11×11 New Season took place. The high-profile launch of the project in Russia took place a little earlier. About the new game, the unique three-way cooperation with Apple and MTS, as well as its first results App2Top.ru asked Nikita Korzhavin, Business Development Director of Nekki.

In January-March of this year, video games worth ₽1 billion were sold in the Russian retail. Sales of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo consoles for the same period amounted to 2.4 billion rubles. This is reported by the Russian retailer “M.Video” together with the M.GAME project and the Eldorado company.

The head of the gaming platform of the social network “Odnoklassniki” left Mail.Ru Group. This was announced by Arthur himself on his Facebook page. In the same place, he stated that he was not voluntarily leaving the post and that he no longer had access to his work contacts.

Recently, Novosibirsk studio GBN launched its Smash The Bugs project on the Facebook Instant Games platform. We talked to the company about its experience with the site. In particular, they touched upon the issues of traffic, user retention and problems with advertising monetization. I answered the questions Natalia Yarovenko, head of the HTML5 direction of the studio.

It took seven days for the pixel “bagel” Stoneshard to get $30 thousand on the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. Thanks to this, it became possible to release it as part of early access on Steam this year.

For 9 years Samara Studio MONO has been making INSOMNIA: The Ark, a dark role-playing game set on a giant space station. In March it became known that the publisher of the game will be Kaliningrad HeroCraft. As part of the announcement, we talked a little with Studio MONO CEO Anatoly Nekrasov about the project.

The gloomy first-person shooter Desolate has surpassed the mark of 100 thousand copies sold on the Valve platform. According to its publisher HypeTrain Digital, this has made the game the most successful Russian Steam release so far this year.

Russian IT Corporation Mail.Ru The Group reported for the first quarter of this year. Revenue from the company’s MMO games increased by 28.5% compared to last year and amounted to ₽5.12 billion ($80.8 million).

In 2018, Russian users will download mobile games over 2 billion times. According to the number of game downloads on mobile, Russia will take the 5th place in the world. This is stated in the forecast of the analytical company App Annie.

ZeptoLab, based in Russia, has announced a reshuffle in the staff. The position of the head of the publishing direction in the company was taken by Dylan Tredrea, who was previously responsible for product management at Rovio. Mike Sviblov, who held his position, remains on staff as a consultant for the direction.

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group continues to expand its portfolio of gaming companies. Today, on April 25, the company announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the Penza studio BIT.GAMES.

The Moscow-based studio ZeptoLab is celebrating the first birthday of the mobile PvP game about seals C.A.T.S.: Crash Arena Turbo. As part of the event, the company announced that the game had overcome the mark of 100 million installations.

As part of the fight against Telegram, Roskomnadzor has officially started blocking IP addresses in Russia. According to unofficial data, 63 out of 600 IP addresses were closed google.com . After that, in an official comment to TechCrunch, Google confirmed that it was affected by the actions of the Russian authorities.