By the end of this year, the French gaming giant Ubisoft is closing six open-ended projects. It is believed that this is due to the company’s desire to focus on developing and supporting only premium products.

The Google Play mobile app store has announced its own event dedicated to indie games.

Recently, Zynga released a new farm under the FarmVille franchise. The novelty is dedicated to business development on a tropical island. About the first session of the game – in our material.

SOOMLA has collected in one post indicators by which you can roughly estimate how successful the game turned out to be. We share.

The director of Scream School told App2Top.ru about the history of the school, how its processes are built, as well as who and what it teaches.

Crytek has released the latest version of the CryEngine engine – CryEngine 5.2, and also announced the opportunity to receive a $1 million grant from the fund for indie developers.

After the publication of the financial report for the first half of 2016, the capitalization of CD Projekt, which owns CD Projekt RED and GOG.com , crossed the mark of $1 billion (4 billion zlotys).

About the magic of slots, the types of game designers, how Rayman Legends teaches players to look for secret places on the level and much more – in our selection of the most interesting materials of last week.

The Russian company Playrix yesterday, August 25, published a new three-in-a-row – Gardenscapes. During the day, the game was downloaded more than 1 million times, and in the American App Store it began to earn more per day than Juice Jam and Zynga Poker.

This Saturday, August 27, a game jam for Russian-speaking developers will begin, the participants of which will have to develop an HTML game on the Defold engine for a month to win. The interest in jam brought Russia to the top countries in terms of the number of registrations of the King engine.

Denis Maltsev, a producer at 1C, spoke about why the Russian company took up the publication of the noir Czech Renoir project from Soulbound Games, which failed to start using Kickstarter.

Stanislav Kostyuk, a game designer at Ubisoft, in his blog talked about how secret zones are made in Rayman Legends and how they are interesting.

Alexander Shtachenko, the leading product manager of iLogos, told us about why people play slots, how users are kept in them, and also how the behavior of players in casual projects differs from the behavior in slots.

For three months, Russian players, on average, spend 960 rubles on Internet games. This is 25% more than a year earlier.

As part of the Casual Connect autumn session, which will be held in Tel Aviv, a showcase of indie projects will traditionally take place within the framework of the Indie Prize international scholarship program. We talked about what kind of program it is with its director, Yulia Moshkareva.

Because of Clash Royale, Clash of Clans’ revenues fell, Pokémon Go increased Nintendo 3DS sales by 50%, and Starcraft II earned $314 million in four years – this is not only in the latest Superdata report.

The cult Russian series about space adventures will receive a new game, which will be released both on mobile platforms and on Steam.

Benson Russell, (Benson Russell) the author of many high-profile projects, including the upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare from Infinity Ward, told the resource 80.lv about what tasks the game designer faces, and gave advice on how to make the game interesting. Translated the text. We share.

The founder and art director of the Moscow studio OWL-studio Vera Velichko told App2Top.ru about the history of the development of the visual novel One Day in London, and also shared the first sales results.