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Conferences December 20, 2017

White Nights Moscow 2017: Yandex about its solutions for mobile applications

Report by Marina Michkova from Yandex. Marina spoke about Yandex technologies for effective monetization of the entire audience of mobile applications.

Development December 19, 2017

A new version of Unity – 2017.3 has been released

The Unity game engine received a major update before Christmas. In version 2017.3, working with panoramic videos has been simplified and Xbox One X support has appeared.

Industry December 19, 2017

Results of 2017: Tanya Loktionova from VALUES VALUE about the main thing for the year

The founder and CEO of the recruiting company VALUES VALUE Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko) told App2Top.ru about HR trends in the CIS gaming industry.

Games December 19, 2017

The PUBG mobile clone from NetEase was downloaded 100 million times in 42 days

The fever of “royal battles” has spread to mobile. The Knives Out mobile PVP action game from the Chinese company NetEase scored over 100 million downloads during the open beta test, which began on November 3 and ended with the global release of the game on December 14.

Industry December 19, 2017

Results of 2017: Nikita Lyubimov from “Interactive stories” about the main thing for the year

The producer of the studio “Interactive Stories” Nikita Lyubimov told App2Top.ru , which events in the outgoing year hooked him the most.

Marketing December 19, 2017

DeltaDNA: women spend more in mobile games than men

Women are a more valuable customer in the mobile games market than men. The analytical company DeltaDNA reports that women’s spending in mobile titles is 44% higher than that of the stronger sex.

Conferences December 19, 2017

White Nights has published a Prague program: there will be King, Supercell and Bandai Namco

It’s worth going. A preliminary program of the conference has appeared on the White Nights Prague 2018 website. According to her, King, Supercell, Bandai Namco and many others will perform at the event.

Conferences December 19, 2017

White Nights Moscow 2017: DevGame about in-game balance and economy without financial costs

Report by Alexander Neberekutin from DevGame. The speaker considered the balance in the game as an integral structure and answered a wide range of questions on building an economy based on user data.

Money December 18, 2017

The creators of LittleBigPlanet 3 and Dead Island 2 were valued at £145 million during the IPO

Another representative of gamedev is preparing to enter the securities market. The capitalization of Sumo Group during the preliminary evaluation of the IPO on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) amounted to £145 million.

Development December 18, 2017

Autodesk has abandoned the Stingray game engine

The third is superfluous. Autodesk has decided to discontinue support and development of the Stingray game engine. The company explained this decision by unwillingness to compete with Unity and Unreal Engine.

Industry December 18, 2017

Results of 2017: Kirill Petrov from i-Free about the main thing for the year

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.

Industry December 18, 2017

Obsidian: “There will be no micropayments in our game”

The announcement of a new role-playing game from Obsidian is coming soon. On the eve of it, the Pillars of Eternity developers hastened to declare that there would be no micropayments or anything similar in their new project.

Industry December 18, 2017

Results of 2017: Alexey Ilyin from the Interactive Cartoon about the main thing for the year

Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the Interactive Cartoon VGTRK gaming direction, told App2Top that his company had managed over the past year and which mobile games he remembered the most.

Industry December 18, 2017

One million copies of PUBG for Xbox One sold in 48 hours

PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS is pulling away again. According to Microsoft, gamers bought more than 1 million copies of PUBG for Xbox One within two days after the release of the console port of the game.

Conferences December 18, 2017

White Nights Moscow 2017: HeroCraft on PC Game Marketing

Report by Ivan Pomytkin from HeroCraft. The speaker spoke about PR, social media, community work, pricing policy and much more in the field of PC game marketing.

Games December 16, 2017

Newzoo: Fortnite entered the top ten most popular PC games in November

The free-play mode of the “royal battle” pulls the Fortnite online shooter to the top of the rating of the most played titles. In November of this year, Fortnite rose to the 10th place in the list of the most popular games on the PC platform.

Industry December 15, 2017

2017 results: Konstantin Mitrofanov from Rocket Jump about the main thing for the year

Rocket Jump Studio Director Konstantin Mitrofanov shared with App2Top.ru the way this year has passed for him and his company.

Money December 15, 2017

Tencent earned half of the revenue of the Chinese online gaming market

The volume of the online gaming market in China for the 3rd quarter of 2017 amounted to $9.6 billion. 51.6% ($4.9 billion) of this amount was earned by Tencent Corporation, the research company iResearch China reported.

Industry December 15, 2017

Results of 2017: Vasily Sabirov from devtodev about the main thing for the year

Vasily Sabirov, a leading analyst at devtodev, told what his company managed to do over the past year.

Industry December 15, 2017

The new Take-Two label will publish games by Fallout, Halo and Assassin’s Creed authors

The team of publishing labels of Take-Two Corporation has been replenished with a new name. Private Division, a brand specializing in ambitious indie projects, joined Rockstar Games and 2K. Among his first clients are Obsidian Entertainment and a number of famous game designers.