One of the main box office hits on PC and consoles in 2016 – a project about radio–controlled cars kicking a soccer ball – took a new milestone – 25 million registered players.

Developer and publisher Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has taken on serious cuts. The company is closing a studio in Bellevue and laying off some employees from three American offices.

In 2001, significantly more cool games were released than in 2016, according to Metacritic estimates.

The Japanese company GungHo, 8 months after the release of the Chinese version of Puzzle & Dragons, is going to close it.

Why are there so few new games in the tower defense genre today and is it worth singing a memorial service for him?

The founder of SpaceX and the head of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, in an interview with the CEO of the Y Combinator venture fund, Sam Altman, criticized the latest Deus Ex for the plot and noted that the stories used to be better in games.

App Annie has published an index of top mobile companies and applications for December 2016. The charts of the most successful games of last month included a mobile reinvention of Lineage II.

Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, spoke about the important role of restrictions in game design within the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.

In the USA and Europe, in December 2016, Euro Truck Simulator 2 entered the top hardcore PC projects in terms of the number of unique gaming sessions in addition to the usual leaders, like League of Legends.

The indie team Stoic is planning to release the third part of the series The Banner Saga. Where to get money for its development is an open question: sales of the first two series of invested money were not repulsed.

A new VR game development studio has appeared. It is called Experiment 7. It is going to specialize in projects simulating the experience of playing board projects. Founded by Zynga and EEDAR veterans.

Sergey Galenkin in his blog on Medium spoke in detail about the results of 2016 on Steam. With the author’s permission, we publish a translation of his article.

One of the mobile publishers in November 2016 managed to earn $74.76 on advertising on one mobile user.

Shunwei Capital from China is going to invest $ 2 million in the gaming startup Mech Mocha, located in the Indian city of Bangalore.

The Japanese company GMO Cloud has acquired exclusive rights to use the Marmalade game development toolkit.

Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the Interactive Cartoon VGTRK gaming direction, told App2Top how 2016 was for the company.

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Roman Menyakin, Director of Business Development at Unity Eastern Europe, told App2Top about the milestones in the history of Unity Technologies over the past 12 months.

Chinese players know English quite well, while Russian players prefer Action to other genres. The localization company All Correct Games came to these and other conclusions as a result of its research.