Yesterday, on September 7, the Odnoklassniki social network announced that from November 1 it will pay developers only 10% of the game payments made by Bonus OKS. App2Top.ru I asked representatives of top Russian-speaking companies in the social games market about their attitude to the innovation.

An indie developer needs a publisher like an umbrella fish. Or is it still not? Brandon Sheffield, head of the indie studio Necrosoft Games, shared his opinion on the issue.

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

In order for the game to be noticed, at least 75 thousand euros are needed for marketing. This is the conclusion reached by Nick Parker, head of the Parker Consulting consulting agency.

As part of the PlayStation Meeting 2016, Sony introduced two new PlayStation family consoles.

All the main news of the day in one publication. Today’s release: Supercell is considering working with external studios, the full version of GameMaker: Studio has entered the Humble Bundle, Molineux has released a new game without loud announcements.

For Apple Watch smartwatches, its own version of Pokémon Go will be released. The new version of the game was presented at the presentation of the iPhone 7 by the developer Niantic Labs.

As part of the Apple presentation – Apple iPhone 7 Keynote – it became known that the Super Mario brand will appear on iOS devices.

Odnoklassniki is going to pay developers only 10% of the Bonus Shackles spent by network users in games.

Wargaming and Sony have announced a collaboration. In the game World of Tanks Blitz, tanks from Valkyria Chronicles will appear.

Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell, told Games Industry in an interview what the corporate culture in the Finnish studio looks like. The main points: working in a company is not sugar, but no one is afraid to make mistakes.

Due to Apple’s new guidelines, at least 27% of applications will have to be renamed. This is reported by the analytical company Sensor Tower.

This Monday, 3.5% of Ubisoft shares became the property of Guillemot Brothers SE. The company belongs to the family of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. The purpose of the purchase is to protect against a hostile takeover by the Vivendi conglomerate.

Virtual reality headsets have almost ceased to be sold. This is reported in a study conducted by Valve Corporation.

The fritupley hidden “Mysterious House” was installed more than 50 million times. In honor of this event App2Top.ru I talked with Maxim Donskikh, president of Game Insight, about the history of the game and its genre.

Former Bungie employees have raised $3.5 million to finance their own VR studio.

Sony is planning an active offensive on the mobile games market. Going to do projects with AR. This was stated in an interview with the Financial Times resource Kaz Hirai, CEO of the company.

Eric Seufert, former vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio and partner at the consulting agency Heracles Media, spoke about how a place in the top downloads affects the cash register of the application.

How to understand that the game turned out to be successful, what is a meta-game, why do the necessary daily tasks? The answers to these and other questions are in our selection of the main materials of the week.