The Bait! project, developed for Gear VR, has been downloaded more than 700 thousand times in five months since its release.

Videos dedicated to video games are the most popular content on YouTube, both in terms of the total time spent on them and the number of views.

Alexander Shtachenko, the leading product manager of iLogos, told about the most important variables – time, scarcity and frequency in his blog. With the author’s permission App2Top.ru publishes material on its pages.

ORC WORK producer Sergey Himmelreich continues to share the history of the development of Evilibrium: Soul Hunters on the pages App2Top.ru . In the second issue of the diaries, he talks about working on the narrative of the game.

The British studio Space Ape Games in the framework of GDC Europe 16 told how much money its strategies inspired by the Supercell project received.

About the Russian retail market and what 1C gaming division is doing today – App2Top.ru I talked with Nikolai Baryshnikov, the head of the 1C Company gaming department.

How big is the audience of casino games (poker, slots, bingo, and so on), as well as who and how actively pays in them in English-speaking countries, Newzoo company said in its latest report.

In preparation for the release of CryEngine 5.2, Crytek has updated the engine’s website. Its most significant innovation is the appearance of a detailed schedule for the appearance of new features.

Tortuga Team, the authors of the Braveland trilogy of turn-based games, are preparing for the imminent launch of the fourth – online – part of the game.

Kabam Chief Operating Officer Kent Wakeford said at GamesBeat 2016 that his company spends, on average, $14 million to launch each mobile project.

How many Russian users leave in MMO per month, what is indie, how UI differs from UX, and also what the press thinks about No Man’s Sky – all this is in our selection of the most interesting materials of last week.

Indie game about exploring “distant planets” Hello Games shows excellent sales not only on PC, where the game has already sold about half a million copies on Steam, but also on PlayStation 4.

The authors of Township and Fishdom are preparing for the imminent release of Gardenscapes, a new three-in-a-row with an unusual binding for the genre. About this App2Top.ru representatives of the company reported.

Novosibirsk company Alawar told App2Top.ru as during the development of a new game for Steam, its concept has changed beyond recognition.

The number of one-time players in No Man’s Sky on the day of release on Steam reached more than 212 thousand users.

Geolocation game about Pokemon on the way to earn the first billion dollars earlier than predicted by App Annie representatives.

On the evening of August 12, digital sales of the PC version of the most anticipated game of this summer – No Man’s Sky – started. Read about how the project was accepted by the press and players who have already managed to play it on PS4 in our material.

About the most trending Steam games this week in our weekly report. This time the top is headed by Kingdom: New Lands, and we are sad about the poor sales of the excellent Tricky Towers.

Two years after the purchase of the bankrupt THQ trademark, the Austrian Nordic Games announced its renaming to THQ Nordic.