Benson Russell, (Benson Russell) the author of many high-profile projects, including the upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare from Infinity Ward, told the resource 80.lv about what tasks the game designer faces, and gave advice on how to make the game interesting. Translated the text. We share.

The founder and art director of the Moscow studio OWL-studio Vera Velichko told App2Top.ru about the history of the development of the visual novel One Day in London, and also shared the first sales results.

The authors of Angry Birds reported on the company’s financial results for the first half of 2016. For six months, the revenues of the “bird” giant amounted to €76.4 million (~ $86 million).

The American office of WG Cells, a division of Wargaming for the development and publication of mobile games, closed: 64 studio employees lost their jobs.

One of the main slasher game series – Devil May Cry – today, August 23, marked 15 years since its debut on gaming shelves.

The Color Switch mobile game, originally made by two developers in a week without using code, has collected 100 million downloads in 8 months since its release.

Risky Lab, authors of the strategyWarbits, the “ideological heir” of Advance Wars, told how the game was created. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

One of the main cross-platform winter releases of this year – a retro project about nostalgia for the 80s and the difficult boxing fate of Punch Club – will appear on the Nintendo 3DS portable console.

About the development of the game about Big Brother, the current ambitions of 1C, the earnings of public companies for the second calendar quarter of 2016 and much more – all this is in our selection of the most interesting materials of last week.

The number of one-time players in No Man’s Sky on the Steam platform fell from 212 thousand to 40 thousand players in a week. Despite this, the game is still one of the most popular among players. The project is in the Top 20 in terms of the number of online players.

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.