The Piano Tiles 2 music game became the most downloaded, NEXON’s HIT hit the box office top immediately after launch, and the Star Wars game rose on the wave of the success of the franchise film. App Annie, an analytical company, told about all these events in a monthly report.

Last Monday, February 1, Vladimir Putin instructed the departments to write a law on equal working conditions on the Russian Internet. It is quite possible that we are talking about a return VAT for software developers. For more information about the law and the order, see our detailed material.

Over the past year, esports players have earned a total of $ 350 thousand at Vainglory tournaments. Information about this was shared by the creators of the game – the Super Evil Megacorp studio.

A couple of weeks ago My.com announced a new game Juggernaut Wars. We talked about the game with the project manager Stanislav Antokhi.

For a year, a game developer receives an average of $36.9 thousand or £33.8 thousand (at the exchange rate as of February 2, 2016). This was reported by the resource Develop Online after a large-scale survey.

Dmitry Mitrofanov from Red Winter told us about the new Dungelot, the dangers of App Annie and SteamSpy, as well as what it takes to be a successful indie.

The Playliner mobile game functionality analytics system shared with App2top.ru his vision of what mechanics unite the most cash-successful games.

Google’s AdWords app has appeared in the App Store.

After the close of trading on Thursday, the value of Electronic Arts shares fell by 7%. This happened because forecasts for the fourth fiscal quarter were lower than expected.

Newzoo forms a tandem with DeltaDNA, Team17 will publish a 16-year-old teenager’s game, and EA leaves E3 and opens its own exhibition (there could have been a joke about blackjack, but we resisted!).

The French company Gameloft continues restructuring. A studio in New Zealand got “under the knife”.

One of the creators of Doom, John Romero, promised fans “a shooter that no one has ever seen before.” This became known from an interview that the veteran gamedev gave to the Develop Online resource.

The Punch Club street fighter simulator has become available not only on iOS and Steam, but also on Android.

The messenger from former losers attracted $20 million in investments, the Unity evangelist tells how an indie developer can create a business, and also – investments in games have halved over the past year.

Games again turned out to be the most downloaded and most profitable “apple” applications. The analytical company Sensor Tower came to this conclusion after studying the company’s quarterly report.

At the upcoming White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference, several sessions will be held in the format of a “heart-to-heart conversation” (fireside chat). One of these conversations will be held with the authors of Clash of Clans.

The highest paid game dev profession is a manager. And the average salary for the industry is $1100. Such preliminary results were given by a survey of a leading analyst Wargaming.net and SteamSpy author Sergey Galenkin.

Last year was a record year for the gaming industry. The total volume of the digital gaming market grew by 8% and reached $61 billion for the first time. This is reported in the report of the analytical company SuperData Research.

ZeptoLab company holds an international competition for the best game designer. The winner will go to GDC 2016.