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.

The organizers of the White Nights conference announced the nominees for the award for professional merit in the industry for the 2016 Game Industry Awards.

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.