App2Top.ru starts posting video reports from the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. The first video is a presentation by Cyril Barrow, Rovio’s vice president of Operations (he is engaged in building internal processes in the company). Cyril talked about how the approach to project management has changed at Rovio over the past year.

The AppsFlyer platform has presented a rating of mobile gaming traffic sources. The company told which services generate the largest number of paid installations and whose traffic is the best in terms of retention.

The head of Valve, Gabe Newell, said that the company is preparing to present Source 2 to third-party developers, but first of all, development is carried out for its own needs.

The social network Twitter, in partnership with Electronic Sports League (ESL) and the organizer of esports competitions DreamHack, will conduct video clips from the competitions.

App Annie has published lists of the most popular and profitable mobile games in January 2017. The most successful projects of the month included My Talking Hank and Lineage II: Revolution.

Google has added new tools and formats for developers of free-play games on the AdMob platform.

Over 6.8 million gamers have become participants in the beta testing of the tactical action Ghost Recon: Wildlands from Ubisoft.

The creators of the “code-free” Buildbox game engine will provide subscribers with assets worth $ 100 thousand.

What types of players are there, how they behave in MMO games and with what functionality they are monetized, – he told the students The Higher School of Business Informatics is the leading analyst of 101XP Alexey Filatov. Especially for App2Top.ru the school has prepared a lecture summary. We share.

Microsoft has launched an Xbox Live Creators Program for developers, within which they can create and publish games on the Xbox One and Windows 10 platforms.

According to statistics, the expenses of mobile gamers in 2016 increased by $7 and reached $77.60.

Oculus has lowered the price of the Rift virtual reality helmet and Touch controllers.

The Unreal Engine (UE) game engine in 2016 brought Epic Games twice as much money as the year before. Thanks to UE, game developers earned over $10 billion last year.

In 2016, the number of Russian virtual and augmented reality companies increased from 60 to 183. The number of investments in this industry has increased from 200 to 500 million rubles.

Moscow-based Cats Who Play developers have reported that their “Syrian Warfare” strategy (Syria: Russian Storm) was removed from the Steam store without warning.

Nintendo has announced the release of over 60 games from independent developers on the new Switch platform.

In 2016, Unity games were installed 16 billion times on mobile devices. In comparison with 2015, the indicator increased by 31%.

Twitch has said it will sell the games. Users will be able to purchase digital versions of projects directly on the game broadcast pages. We interviewed industry experts about how this will affect the market.

Matteo Vallone, head of business development at Google Play, recommends developers of mobile games and applications to rely on the quality of the product and promote it through social services.