Today, October 17, the second day of the White Nights Moscow 2018 gaming business conference is taking place. Editorial Board App2Top.ru shares a list of the most interesting performances from her point of view.

A year ago, the three-in-a-row Season Match Puzzle Adventure was released. Since then, the ARPU of the game has grown 150 times. Denis Sedovich, producer of HeroCraft publishing house, told how such dynamics were achieved.

Today, October 16, the White Nights gaming business conference opens in Pervoprestolnaya. It takes place for the seventeenth time. We noted the most interesting reports of the first day from the editorial point of view.

What to do if the studio decided to make a clone, but is not sure about the choice of the world for it, — says producer Alexander Shtachenko.

Wanted: a user acquisition manager at Stark Games, a balance designer at Belka Games, a 3D artist at FunCorp and a junior game designer at Friday’s Games.

The authors of Skyrim and Fallout have launched a Russian office. It is located in Moscow. The office was headed by Semyon Chirikov, previously responsible for global operations in Wargaming, as well as the promotion of Electronic Arts products in Russia.

The day after the end of White Nights Moscow 2018, VKontakte organizes its own event in the capital — VK High Score. It will be held on October 18. Just like a year ago, its representatives will tell about the platform’s new products, and the developers of the social network games will share their experience.

We note the mobile games that have shown the fastest growth in downloads over the past seven days.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 11.

About the main problems and challenges in the labor market of the domestic game dev App2Top.ru I talked with the founder of the recruiting company Values Value Tanya Loktionova.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 10.

The owners of the Marmalade SDK mobile game development engine have announced that they are ceasing to invest in it. The main reason is the increased competition in recent years. Most gaming teams today prefer to use Unity and Unreal.

The authors of Pillars of Eternity will soon lose their independence. According to three sources of the Kotaku publication, the acquisition of Obsidian by Microsoft is at the final stage.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 9.

Be afraid of your desires. A good example of the phrase is the history of cosmosim Evolution. In the course of a series of misadventures, an indie game that no one needed for two years suddenly took 180,000 players online.

Last night, on October 8, it became known about the conclusion of a deal between CD Projekt RED and the Canadian studio Digital Scapes. The latter should help the authors of The Witcher in the development of their new role—playing blockbuster – Cyberpunk 2077. We answer the question: why did she do it?

The future is closer than we thought. Microsoft has officially introduced Project xCloud. This is a service that will allow you to play Xbox One products on a large number of platforms, including mobile devices. The announcement took place a couple of days after the test launch of the streaming solution from Google.

The authors of Fortnite have taken up acquisitions. Today, October 8, Epic Games announced the purchase of the Finnish company Kamu. The latter is known for the Easy Anti-Cheat service, which blocks hacking and the use of cheats in multiplayer games.

On September 27, Nintendo released a new game. So far, this is a mobile exclusive. The project is called Dragalia Lost. There is no hype around him. Analysts are in a hurry to bury him. We analyze what exactly they did not take into account.