The business conference for the gaming industry White Nights St.Petersburg will begin on June 14. The event will include round tables on various topics, including HTML5. We invite our readers to ask the participants of the discussion a question. Two authors of the most interesting questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Square Enix has moved the development of the Final Fantasy VII remake inside the company under the leadership of Naoki Hamaguchi, who previously created the Mobius Final Fantasy mobile role-playing game.

Last week, the Yaroslavl team One Dream received a $20,000 grant from Epic Games to support the game Be:Brave. We talked with the team’s lead developer, Mikhail Vaksman, about the history of the project, why they switched from Unity to Unreal and which publisher they are looking for now.

The Chinese corporation Rastar Group, specializing in the production of toy cars under the license of luxury brands, consolidated its gaming business under a new brand – Rastar Games.

The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) has invested 120 million rubles in the startup Antilatency, which develops solutions for virtual and augmented reality devices.

Bandai Namco Media Corporation and Drecom, a web platform for social games, announced the joint creation of the BXD game studio.

Studio One Dream of Yaroslavl was among the winners of the Epic Games Awards, awarded to the creators of projects based on the Unreal Engine.

The AppsFlyer marketing platform has offered mobile developers a tool to combat artificial cheating of advertising indicators.

The Japanese company Square Enix announced the urgent recruitment of employees to the Final Fantasy VII Remake development team.

April revenues from digital sales of the MMO shooter PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds amounted to $ 34 million, despite the fact that the game is in early access.

The St. Petersburg White Nights session starts in less than a month. As always, the Indie Game Cup competition will be held as part of the conference. What is the meaning of this event and what is the practical benefit of it — one of the winners of the contest told App2Top.

Vera Karpova, analyst at devtodev, told how to calculate ARPU correctly, where knowledge of this metric can be useful, as well as how to increase it.

This week, on May 23, the Russian team AurumDust launched a fundraising campaign to finalize the role-playing game Ash of Gods. A minimum of $75,000 is required to successfully complete the campaign. We talked with the founder of the studio, Nikolai Bondarenko, about the project and Kickstarter.

Poles from CD PROJEKT Group reported for the first quarter of 2017. From January to March, the authors of The Witcher earned $26.55 million (99.30 million zloty). The amount earned is 14% more than a year earlier for the same quarter.

Bungie plans to abandon the random selection of matches in the Destiny 2 MMO shooter and give players the opportunity to choose a company for themselves to pass game tests.

Microsoft has announced the release of the Xbox Game Pass subscription for Xbox One users from June 1 of this year. The service will be available in Of Russia.

The three-in-a-row Cookie Jam of the Californian developer Jam City (formerly SGN Games) has gained 100 million downloads.

66 companies earned the first million dollars on mobile apps in 2016 in the American App Store. This is almost twice as much as Google Play, where there were 39 of them.

In mid-April, a CG trailer for the Russian fighting game Shadow Fight 3 appeared on YouTube. In the first week, it collected 1 million views. App2Top asked the head of the CG department of Banzai Games, Evgeny Kyabura, how the work on the video was going.