Konstantin Sakhnov, Director of the Rocket Jump gaming Department, told App2Top about how the company’s approach to working with employees has changed this year.

Nekki Vice President of Strategy and Member Sergey Babaev told App2Top about the main events and trends of the outgoing year from his point of view.

Game Insight creative producer Ilya Eremeev told App2Top what projects the company has released this year, and also noted the best mobile games of 2016.

Chinese games are becoming more and more popular outside of China. The number of projects from the PRC that got into the Top 1000 popular games in the world (excluding China itself) doubled in 2016. The most loyal markets to Chinese products are Indonesia, Brazil, India and Russia.

In 2016, about 40 VR and AR projects were launched in Russia. Most of them received investments in the amount of $ 15 thousand to $ 30 thousand.

Game designer from Denmark Shurd De Jong, known for his work on Unreal Tournament 2004, Killzone and Syndicate, made his game development books and Unreal Engine tutorials free.

Creative Director of Playrix Igor Elovikov told App2Top how the year went for the company and which projects became central for him in 2016.

CEO of Creative Mobile Vladimir Funtikov told App2Top what happened to the company over the year, and also highlighted the main events.

Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft, spoke about how the last 12 months have passed for the company, and also highlighted the central trends of the outgoing year.

Estimated at $18 billion, the Snapchat messenger is trying out game formats. For Christmas, the developers have introduced a new filter that allows the user to play for himself in a dwarf costume.

Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev summed up the results of the outgoing year in the company and industry for App2Top.

The game producer of the Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top what happened on the social network over the past twelve months, as well as what events in the gaming industry he considers the main ones in 2016.

Maxim Babichev, the head of working with developers on the VKontakte platform, told App2Top about the main events, trends and unexpected turns in the gaming industry this year.

The VKontakte social network selected the best projects of the year and presented a list of top games released on the site in 2016.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that a gaming company founded by Turks in Germany is going to invest half a billion dollars in the Turkish economy.

Pixonic Executive Director Igor Klyukin shared with App2Top the results of the year.

Alexey Savchenko, Unreal Engine Licensing Manager at Epic Games, told App2Top about how the outgoing year has passed for the company.

Pavel Kostin, the head of production of the Kaliningrad company HeroCraft, spoke about the results of the year in the company and the changes in Steam.

Last week, the mobile version of Punch Club, following the version for desktop devices, received a new – easy – passing mode. We talked to the authors of the game about why this was done.