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.

10 days after the release, Super Mario Run lost its first place in the box office tops of 59 countries. But in terms of downloads, the game is still leading in several dozen regions.

Nikita Lyubimov, producer of the Interactive Stories studio, told App2Top how a year has passed for the new VGTRK gaming direction, and shared his thoughts on the main events of the year.

Endless Lake has received 12 million users in three weeks on the new Facebook Instant Games platform.

The founder of the publishing house tinyBuild Alex Nichiporchik said App2Top.ru , how the year went for the company, and also noted the most important trends of the outgoing months.

After three years of development on mobile platforms, the War Commander: Rogue Assault strategy from Kixeye has been released. The creative director of the project was one of the creators of Command & Conquer.

The increase in the cost of traffic will lead to the popularization of retargeting next year. About why this happened and what retargeting is App2Top.ru Alexey Pisarevsky, CEO of Mobio, told.

Russian telecom operator Megafon has started preparing to buy 63.8% of the Internet giant’s management shares Mail.Ru Group. The transaction amount is less than $1 billion with the market capitalization of the IT company of $9.5 billion.

A Devs documentary series dedicated to the backstage of the Finnish gaming industry has been launched on YouTube.