Rob Pardo, Blizzard’s creative director and World of Warcraft designer, founded the Bonfire gaming startup. The studio has raised $25 million and will start releasing online multiplayer.

Superdata compared the dynamics of monthly earnings of seven popular mobile games with each other.

Of the total number of downloaded applications in the world, paid installations account for only 10%. Most of the downloads are organic,” the marketing company Tune assures in its research.

Jennifer Chan, Head of Business Development at Google Play Apps & Games, believes that mobile publishers need to pay attention to Hong Kong in search of high profits.

How did Russian developers react to the introduction of 10% payouts from Bonus Shackles by Odnoklassniki, does the position in the top in downloads affect the cashier, do Supercell celebrate failures with a champagne party – in our selection of the most interesting materials of the week.

Sergey Korolev, CEO of the Russian Magisterion studio, announced the closure of the mobile direction and the abandonment of Unity. Sergey told about the reasons for leaving App2Top.ru .

All the main news of the day in one publication. Today’s issue: slots are being changed to three-in-a-row, the authors 1010! they go to midcore, Kabam tells how he conquered China, and much more.

About the most trending Steam games – in our weekly report. This time the top is headed by Seasons after Fall. In second place is the domestic development – The Final Station.

In the second issue of the development diaries, the OWL-studio team shares how they worked on one of the main characters of the visual novel One Day in London.

Representatives of the Odnoklassniki social network answered the questions App2Top.ru concerning plans to pay developers only 10% of payments made by users made by Bonus OKS.

Editor App2Top.ru I talked to the organizer of White Nights about the Moscow program of the conference. It turned out to be a sincere longrid.

All the main news of the day in one publication. Today’s release: There’s hope for a new Earthworm Jim, Hiro Kojima and Tom Schiffer are killing zombies and a lot of Nintendo.

A mobile project about Pokemon earned half a billion dollars in 60 days. Previously, no game has earned such a sum in such a short period of time.

Yesterday, on September 7, the Odnoklassniki social network announced that from November 1 it will pay developers only 10% of the game payments made by Bonus OKS. App2Top.ru I asked representatives of top Russian-speaking companies in the social games market about their attitude to the innovation.

An indie developer needs a publisher like an umbrella fish. Or is it still not? Brandon Sheffield, head of the indie studio Necrosoft Games, shared his opinion on the issue.

With the support of GOG.com (entertainment platform and video game store, which is part of CD PROJEKT) website App2Top.ru continues to regularly analyze which PC games are in the greatest demand.

In order for the game to be noticed, at least 75 thousand euros are needed for marketing. This is the conclusion reached by Nick Parker, head of the Parker Consulting consulting agency.

As part of the PlayStation Meeting 2016, Sony introduced two new PlayStation family consoles.

All the main news of the day in one publication. Today’s release: Supercell is considering working with external studios, the full version of GameMaker: Studio has entered the Humble Bundle, Molineux has released a new game without loud announcements.