Investment daughter Mail.Ru The Group has announced new investments. The company said that it had signed agreements with four domestic developers. We are talking about Zillion Whales, Mobilate, Game Garden and Red Brix Wall.

Kirill Petrov, co-founder of i-Free and Managing Director of Zillion Whales, said App2Top.ru , how the year has passed for his gaming business and named the most important trends of recent months.

A round table about blockchain in the gaming industry. The speakers discussed how esports and cryptocurrencies are changing the market and the gaming industry, as well as how cryptocurrencies fall on game currencies, how to integrate them into the gaming economy, why and how to create your own cryptocurrency for games.

A report by Andrey Korotkov from Zillion Whales. The speaker spoke about the challenges and opportunities that open up for multiplayer indie games, as well as about the experience of Mushroom Wars 2.

Round table about children’s games. Experts discussed the pros and cons of developing games for children. Is it really possible to make money on such projects? What is the difference between games for kids and other apps? What games are parents willing to pay for?

The St. Petersburg studio Orc Work is currently working on its second game – the role-playing battler Evilibrium II. A closed alpha testing of the project has recently started. In this regard, we talked with the producer of the team about preparing the game for release.