The VKontakte social network selected the best projects of the year and presented a list of top games released on the site in 2016.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that a gaming company founded by Turks in Germany is going to invest half a billion dollars in the Turkish economy.

Pixonic Executive Director Igor Klyukin shared with App2Top the results of the year.

Alexey Savchenko, Unreal Engine Licensing Manager at Epic Games, told App2Top about how the outgoing year has passed for the company.

Pavel Kostin, the head of production of the Kaliningrad company HeroCraft, spoke about the results of the year in the company and the changes in Steam.

Last week, the mobile version of Punch Club, following the version for desktop devices, received a new – easy – passing mode. We talked to the authors of the game about why this was done.

10 days after the release, Super Mario Run lost its first place in the box office tops of 59 countries. But in terms of downloads, the game is still leading in several dozen regions.

Nikita Lyubimov, producer of the Interactive Stories studio, told App2Top how a year has passed for the new VGTRK gaming direction, and shared his thoughts on the main events of the year.

Endless Lake has received 12 million users in three weeks on the new Facebook Instant Games platform.

The founder of the publishing house tinyBuild Alex Nichiporchik said App2Top.ru , how the year went for the company, and also noted the most important trends of the outgoing months.

After three years of development on mobile platforms, the War Commander: Rogue Assault strategy from Kixeye has been released. The creative director of the project was one of the creators of Command & Conquer.

The increase in the cost of traffic will lead to the popularization of retargeting next year. About why this happened and what retargeting is App2Top.ru Alexey Pisarevsky, CEO of Mobio, told.

Russian telecom operator Megafon has started preparing to buy 63.8% of the Internet giant’s management shares Mail.Ru Group. The transaction amount is less than $1 billion with the market capitalization of the IT company of $9.5 billion.

A Devs documentary series dedicated to the backstage of the Finnish gaming industry has been launched on YouTube.

Viktor Zakharchenko, executive director of KamaGames Studio, is leaving the company after five years of work.

At the end of the year, the Facebook social network traditionally named the best gaming projects of the platform. The main award was given to Gardenscapes by Playrix. Taonga: The Island Farm from Moscow Volka was also recognized as one of the best games. We tell you which projects have received awards.

In 2016, the total digital revenues of all games amounted to $91 billion. Most of the amount came from games for mobile platforms.

The developer of the MonoGame framework, on which Bastion and Axiom Verge were created, told the publication 80.lv about the capabilities of the package and work on it. We provide a translation of the material.

The developer of Warface and Crysis is closing five of its seven studios. The company will focus on creating premium products.