As part of the GamesBeat 2016 conference, veterans of the game dev gave advice on how to encourage and develop creativity among employees.

The latest game of the Finnish company Supercell – Clash Royale – has been losing revenue since May. In August, the project earned $62 million. This is two times less than the game received in March.

Games for smartphones and tablets earn from $9.3 billion to $9.5 billion a year in Japan.

Angry Birds Evolution from the Finnish Rovio has been released on the App Store in Hong Kong. The novelty is another attempt by the company to strengthen itself within the battler genre.

About the most trending Steam games this week in our weekly report. This time the top is again (!) headed by Kingdom: New Lands. As for the editorial board, we recommend paying attention to Reigns and Overcooked.

Igor Klyukin, Pixonic‘s executive director, shared his experience working on the logo for War Robots on his Facebook page. App2Top.ru publishes a post on its pages with the permission of the author.

Based on open sources App2Top.ru I collected in one material information about the gaming earnings of leading public companies based on the results of the recently ended second calendar quarter of this year.

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.

The authors of Xbox reject the idea of generations in the console market. Apparently, they are just going to release more and more devices.

Where Pokémon GO was released, in July it also turned out to be the leader among games in terms of revenue and downloads on the Apple mobile platform, according to analysts at Newzoo.

Russian Internet company Mail.Ru The Group has published financial statements for the first six months of 2016. Of the 18.8 billion rubles earned by the company, about 23% came from MMO games.

On the eve of the launch of the role-playing action Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on “big” platforms, the Japanese publisher Square Enix has released a mobile puzzle Deus Ex GO.

What is the Finnish gaming industry today, what difficulties its developers face and how difficult it is for Russian teams to launch their own business in this country – this and many other things were told during Finnish Game Day. All reports from the event can now be seen on App2Top.ru .

The Bait! project, developed for Gear VR, has been downloaded more than 700 thousand times in five months since its release.

Videos dedicated to video games are the most popular content on YouTube, both in terms of the total time spent on them and the number of views.

Alexander Shtachenko, the leading product manager of iLogos, told about the most important variables – time, scarcity and frequency in his blog. With the author’s permission App2Top.ru publishes material on its pages.

ORC WORK producer Sergey Himmelreich continues to share the history of the development of Evilibrium: Soul Hunters on the pages App2Top.ru . In the second issue of the diaries, he talks about working on the narrative of the game.

The British studio Space Ape Games in the framework of GDC Europe 16 told how much money its strategies inspired by the Supercell project received.

About the Russian retail market and what 1C gaming division is doing today – App2Top.ru I talked with Nikolai Baryshnikov, the head of the 1C Company gaming department.