App2Top.ru uploads a video from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. Next up is a report from Matthew Steinke, the lead technical designer of CD Projekt RED. In his speech, he talked about working on The Witcher 3.

App2Top.ru starts posting videos from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. The first in line is from Oleg Pridyuk from King. In his speech, he talked about how the authors of Candy Crush are working on games.

Gameforge announced the dismissal of one fifth of its employees. The publisher explains this by moving away from mobile in favor of “new opportunities in the PC freeplay market.” We talked with the director of the 101XP Business Development department about how much this market is more interesting than mobile.

The German company Gameforge, which publishes and operates such free-play games as Tera, Aion, HEX and Orcs Must Die! Unchained, refuses to publish mobile games and fires 90 employees.

The evangelist of the Creative Mobile publishing direction Valentin Merzlikin shared with App2Top.ru his opinion on the fate of the lawsuit in which the authors of Toy Blast accuse Hasbro of cloning their project.

The Turkish company Peak Games accuses the American toy giant Hasbro of cloning the casual hit Toy Blast.

Vera Velichko, founder and art director of OWL-studio, told App2Top.ru how should I speak if I was suddenly invited to read a report or decided to share my work experience with colleagues at a conference.

The most successful game in The Room series remains the first part, the third is the most expensive in production,” the British studio Fireproof Games said in an infographic.

Mobio Talks withinWhite Nights Moscow 2016, which took place on October 11-12, took several interviews with the conference speakers. We are starting to publish a series of these interviews. The first interlocutor of Anton Krokhmalyuk, Marketing Director at Mobio, was Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft and organizer of White Nights.

“The Hero’s Path” in the Journey game, interviews with the authors of Mushroom Wars 2, tips from the designer Naughty Dog, — and much more in a selection of our best materials for the past week.

Martin Teichmann, an artist for creating a game environment from Naughty Dog, talked about the principles of creating locations with Kirill Tokarev, editor-in-chief of the resource 80.lv . Translated the interview, we share.

Why it is important to optimize PC games for integrated graphics solutions and how to make them produce 60 frames per second Unreal project, – indie developers from High Horse Entertainment told in the blog of the engine.

It took more than 500 days for Clash of Clans to earn $600 million. Pokémon GO scored this amount in less than 100 days.

As a result of the third quarter, China became the largest market in the world in terms of earnings from the iOS mobile app store. In second place is the USA, in third — Japan,” App Annie reports in its latest report.

With the support of GOG.com (entertainment platform and video game store, which is part of CD PROJEKT) website App2Top.ru continues to analyze which PC games are in the greatest demand.

Mark Brown, indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, explained why the “feeling of the game” is a necessary component of a platformer or action and how to strengthen this feeling within the video cycle Game Maker’s Toolkit. With the author’s permission, we have translated the material and prepared a text version.

The Japanese company Nintendo has published a video in which it showed the functionality of its new console, named the Nintendo Switch (previously it was referred to as the Nintendo NX).

Affectiva’s service, which allows you to read the emotions of players in real time, has received integration with Unity. Companies with an income of less than $1 million per year can use it for free.

The main reason for the sharp decline in interest in the game, as a rule, is the unsatisfied demand for new content, so it is important to release it as soon as possible (preferably 3-5 weeks after release), the Nielsen analytical company reports in its latest study.