The authors of Cut the Rope have officially launched a publishing direction. As part of the initiative, the Russian company also opened a website for applications from third-party teams. We talked with Mikhail Sviblov, the head of the publishing direction of the company, about which projects ZeptoLab is going to take.

The winners of the 13th International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) were named in San Francisco.

We are launching a weekly publication of selected vacancies, a selection of which makes for us Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert.

App2Top.ru He continues to post videos of reports from the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. Next up is a report by Igor Klyukin from Pixonic. His speech is dedicated to promotions and offers in games based on the example of the MMO action movie War Robots.

Chinese mobile game publisher Youzu has opened a representative office in India and plans to invest $10 million in the local gaming industry.

“By adding virtual reality support to Resident Evil 7, we were practically making two games at the same time,” admitted Kazuhiro Takahara, the lead VR engineer of the Resident Evil 7: Biohazard project.

According to Leanplum’s marketing research, push notifications containing ideograms are read 85% more readily.

App2Top.ru He continues to post videos of reports from the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. Next up is a public interview with Chet Faliszek, one of Valve’s leading screenwriters and a VR specialist at Valve.

Today, an indie studio can be successful in the mobile market, even releasing paid games. About this App2Top.ru the Yerevan studio Koreez told.

According to Steam statistics, the number of active players in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (RE7) decreased from 15 to 1.5 thousand in a month.

The developers of the Forza Horizon 3 Playground Games car simulator are considering the possibility of creating games for mobile devices.

GitHub, a web service for the joint development of IT projects, has announced the “GitHub for Unity” extension, which will allow game creators, programmers and artists to integrate the capabilities of Git and GitHub into their work.

On March 3, sales of the new Nintendo Switch console began in the world.

Google has announced the release of a new version of the integrated application development environment (IDE) Android Studio.

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.