On September 24, the Google Play mobile app store held its first festival dedicated to games from indie developers (Indie Games Festival) and named the three best projects of the event.

The French developer and publisher Ubisoft has announced the acquisition of one of the most popular publishers of mobile games – Ketchapp.

Yesterday, September 26, AppLovin announced the sale of a controlling stake in the private Chinese investment company Orient Hontai Capital for $1.4 billion. We talked to Russian marketing companies about the deal.

The Russian company Playrix is not only the leading local publisher in terms of revenue from mobile projects in the CIS, but the number two at the box office in mid-September among all mobile game studios from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia.

One of the main guests of the Moscow White Nights session will be Unity co-founder David Helgason. App2Top.ru offers to come up with a question (or several) for him and win a ticket to the event for it.

The Game Maker’s Toolkit YouTube channel, hosted by British gaming journalist Mark Brown, publishes a series of videos about level design in The Legend of Zelda games.

In less than two months, the number of one-time players in No Man’s Sky on Steam has decreased from 212 thousand to 2 thousand.

Charlie Oscar studio launched an annual bundle on Steam together with five other teams and explained App2Top.ru why I took this step.

St. Petersburg studio Zillion Whales shared with App2Top.ru the way I was looking for a style for a full-fledged sequel to Mushroom Wars.

Paid MOBA from Swedish Stunlock Studios wins Steam. Battlerite, released last week, not only received 80 thousand users, but also a very high rating – 96%.

The Allright Rig project, designed to create rigs and work with animation in Unreal Engine 4, has become free.

Kabam has removed the ambitious role-playing game Star Wars: Uprising from the App Store and Google Play. A large-scale project in the Star Wars universe, according to the developers, “did not justify the efforts necessary to support it.”

The founders and managers of Ubisoft increased their stake in the company by 3.2%, buying 3.6 million shares from Bpifrance. They spent €122.5 million on this.

The authors of the mobile hit Clash Royale have taken up a series of commercials, each of which will be dedicated to a single map.

As part of the gaming business conference White Nights, which will be held in Moscow in mid-October, will host the fifth Indie Game Cup championship of independent teams’ game projects. We talked with the head of the White Nights organizing committee, Business Development Director of Nevosoft Yulia Lebedeva, about the purpose of the contest, its history and preliminary results.

On September 21, Scream School announced the conclusion of a strategic partnership with Unity Technologies. Within its framework, the school received the right to certify specialists for Unity knowledge, and also became a Certification Center for Unity teachers in Russia. We talked to the director of Scream School – Ekaterina Cherkess-zadeh – about what this means.

How to analyze apps that work by subscription? This question is answered in his article Vasily Sabirov, leading analyst of devtodev service.

In the future, G2A is going to sell more than just games on its site. This was stated at a meeting with the Russian press by the CEO and co-founder of the platform Bartosz Skwarczek (Bartosz Skwarczek).

As part of the Moscow White Nights 2016, which will take place in less than a month, a round table on HTML5 games will be held. For the most interesting questions to him App2Top.ru will give you two premium tickets.