This summer, the Codex of Victory wargame from the Russian team Ino-Co, the authors of the Code of War and the Warlok series, was released to “Early Access” on Steam. We talked about the fate of the project with the general director of the studio Alexey Kozyrev.

As part of the Moscow session of White Nights, a Deconstruction Workshop will be held, where Russian producers and designers will “disassemble” four games in front of an audience.

The British Jagex, known by MMO RuneScape, became part of the young Zhongji Holding, owned by Shanghai Zhongji Enterprise Group, which also owns the Shandong Hongda Mining company.

HTC Vive will have its own store – Viveport. First of all, entertainment content will be distributed in it.

Despite the fact that the information noise concerning Pokémon GO has significantly decreased, and analytical companies report a drop in both the user base and the project’s revenue, it still remains one of the highest-grossing mobile applications in the world.

In the popular “three-in-a-row” Candy Crush Saga, the 2000th level appeared. This was reported by the authors of the game – studio King.

George Scotto, Director of Business Development at Crytek, told about his plans in the market, the target audience and competition with other engines in an interview with Develop. We present a brief version of the material in Russian.

On September 24, the Google Play mobile app store held its first festival dedicated to games from indie developers (Indie Games Festival) and named the three best projects of the event.

The French developer and publisher Ubisoft has announced the acquisition of one of the most popular publishers of mobile games – Ketchapp.

Yesterday, September 26, AppLovin announced the sale of a controlling stake in the private Chinese investment company Orient Hontai Capital for $1.4 billion. We talked to Russian marketing companies about the deal.

The Russian company Playrix is not only the leading local publisher in terms of revenue from mobile projects in the CIS, but the number two at the box office in mid-September among all mobile game studios from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia.

One of the main guests of the Moscow White Nights session will be Unity co-founder David Helgason. App2Top.ru offers to come up with a question (or several) for him and win a ticket to the event for it.

The Game Maker’s Toolkit YouTube channel, hosted by British gaming journalist Mark Brown, publishes a series of videos about level design in The Legend of Zelda games.

In less than two months, the number of one-time players in No Man’s Sky on Steam has decreased from 212 thousand to 2 thousand.

Charlie Oscar studio launched an annual bundle on Steam together with five other teams and explained App2Top.ru why I took this step.

St. Petersburg studio Zillion Whales shared with App2Top.ru the way I was looking for a style for a full-fledged sequel to Mushroom Wars.

Paid MOBA from Swedish Stunlock Studios wins Steam. Battlerite, released last week, not only received 80 thousand users, but also a very high rating – 96%.

The Allright Rig project, designed to create rigs and work with animation in Unreal Engine 4, has become free.

Kabam has removed the ambitious role-playing game Star Wars: Uprising from the App Store and Google Play. A large-scale project in the Star Wars universe, according to the developers, “did not justify the efforts necessary to support it.”