This October, the turnover of the Russian market of MMO games for PC increased by a quarter compared to the same month last year.

The heroic fighting game MARVEL Contest of Champions (Kabam) turned out to be the highest-grossing iOS app in North America on November 28, ahead of Game of War (MZ) and Clash Royale (Supercell).

The policy regarding marketing companies and developers encouraging users to leave “false ratings and reviews” is being tightened.

HTML5 developers interested in creating games for the new Facebook platform will be able to get money for it from Big Viking Games.

Over the current year, more than 4,000 games have been published in the Steam digital game store. This is more than a third of the total number of projects on Steam.

A new version of the Unity game engine – Unity 5.5 – has become available to developers. The key innovation is full support for HoloLens.

The authors of Angry Birds have founded a startup that will release a Netflix analogue for mobile games early next year.

The Indie Game Cup Indie project competition has started. The best projects will receive awards and prizes at the winter White Nights, which will be held in February 2017 in Prague.

The authors of “Natives” and “Mysterious House” after the announcement of Instant Games by the social network Facebook said that they invested $ 5 million in games for the new platform, and also acquired the authors of Need a Hero.

As part of the last Casual Connect session, which took place in early November, the best projects were awarded in ten nominations. In light of the upcoming deadline for submitting applications for the next Indie Prize Showcase, we decided to briefly go through the list.

Unity has launched an affiliate program to promote content in the Asset Store. For sales received from external links, commissions will be paid.

Two high-ranking Zynga managers, leaving the company for Scopely, took with them to a new place data about the former employer and several colleagues.

The provider of Tilting Point has launched a fund that will invest in advertising campaigns for mobile games by indie developers.

App2Top.ru continues to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. Next up is the performance of Nizar Romdan from Virtual Arts. In his speech, he talked about creating his own VR studio in Cambridge (UK), which develops games, interactive content and new technologies, as well as how to make a good game for VR.

The Facebook social network has opened the Instant Games platform within the closed beta, which allows users to play with each other in a chat and news feed.

Dong Nguyen’s studio dotGEARS is preparing to release a new title. The project will be released on the same day as Super Mario Run (Nintendo) – December 15.

Since its release this summer, more Japanese have played Pokémon GO (Niantic) than any other mobile game.

About the most popular solutions for A/B testing in mobile, – Soomla company told.

Mobio Talks within the framework of White Nights Moscow 2016, which took place on October 11-12, interviewed the speakers of the conference. Today we publish a conversation between Alexey Pisarevsky, CEO of Mobio, and Luis Cataldi, evangelist of Epic Games.