So many games have already been released on Defold, which studios inside King use it and how big is the engine community in Russia, – App2Top.ru Oleg Pridyuk, an evangelist at King, told us.

Today is a day of sad news. Marmalad will no longer develop its engine, Blizzard’s senior vice president of creative development is retiring, Pokemon GO has lost 79% of paying players in a month.

The author of the meditative games Flower and Journey told the Gamasutra resource about the creation of the game Abzu. We have translated the interview and are sharing it with you.

On the eve of the second wave of closed beta testing of action-MMO “Pirates: Allods Online“, which starts on September 15, we talked with the project manager Alexey Kornev about the history of the game and the specifics of its development.

The ratings given by users to games on Steam are no longer taken into account if access to projects was obtained through a digital key.

The author of Cut the Rope and King of Thieves, the Moscow company ZeptoLab, is looking for new games to publish. About what ZeptoLab expects from projects and what it is ready to offer to developers, App2Top.ru Mikhail Sviblov, the head of the company’s publishing direction, told the audience.

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Rob Pardo, Blizzard’s creative director and World of Warcraft designer, founded the Bonfire gaming startup. The studio has raised $25 million and will start releasing online multiplayer.

Superdata compared the dynamics of monthly earnings of seven popular mobile games with each other.

Of the total number of downloaded applications in the world, paid installations account for only 10%. Most of the downloads are organic,” the marketing company Tune assures in its research.

Jennifer Chan, Head of Business Development at Google Play Apps & Games, believes that mobile publishers need to pay attention to Hong Kong in search of high profits.

How did Russian developers react to the introduction of 10% payouts from Bonus Shackles by Odnoklassniki, does the position in the top in downloads affect the cashier, do Supercell celebrate failures with a champagne party – in our selection of the most interesting materials of the week.

Sergey Korolev, CEO of the Russian Magisterion studio, announced the closure of the mobile direction and the abandonment of Unity. Sergey told about the reasons for leaving App2Top.ru .

All the main news of the day in one publication. Today’s issue: slots are being changed to three-in-a-row, the authors 1010! they go to midcore, Kabam tells how he conquered China, and much more.

About the most trending Steam games – in our weekly report. This time the top is headed by Seasons after Fall. In second place is the domestic development – The Final Station.

In the second issue of the development diaries, the OWL-studio team shares how they worked on one of the main characters of the visual novel One Day in London.

Representatives of the Odnoklassniki social network answered the questions App2Top.ru concerning plans to pay developers only 10% of payments made by users made by Bonus OKS.

Editor App2Top.ru I talked to the organizer of White Nights about the Moscow program of the conference. It turned out to be a sincere longrid.

All the main news of the day in one publication. Today’s release: There’s hope for a new Earthworm Jim, Hiro Kojima and Tom Schiffer are killing zombies and a lot of Nintendo.