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Other October 27, 2015

The Final Fantasy heroes will appear in the Puzzle and Dragons game

GungHo has announced a collaboration with Square Enix. In the title project of the Japanese studio, the game Puzzle And Dragons, the heroes of Final Fantasy will appear. GungHo announced this in a press release.

Conferences October 27, 2015

White Nights Moscow 2015: Alyona Vladimirskaya’s report on the crisis in game development

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is a performance that has already become scandalous the creators of the Pruffi recruitment agency Alyona Vladimirskaya.

Industry October 27, 2015

Maxim Donskikh became the president of Game Insight

The president has changed in Game Insight. Instead of Alexander Vashchenko, Maxim Donskikh, who previously held the post of vice president of marketing at the company, became him.

Money October 27, 2015

The natives of Rovio and Nokia received $1 million in investments

Finnish mobile studio Koukoi Games has attracted $1 million in investments. This became known from the team’s Twitter account.

Conferences October 27, 2015

The MAMA Mobile Analytics workshop will be held this Thursday

On October 29, AppsFlyer and Apptractor are holding an educational seminar in Moscow, MAMA Russia, dedicated to mobile attribution. We asked one of the organizers of the event, Leonid Bogolyubov, about the event.

Industry October 27, 2015

Monument Valley Creator: The future is behind mobile Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is about to become available to a wide user: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR headset are due to launch in the next 8 months. Despite this, Peter Pashley, the technical director of the ustwo studio, is confident that the main way of developing virtual reality is mobile. He told about this in an interview with the VRFocus resource.

Industry October 27, 2015

Leonid Sirotin: people pay for the buzz

The AppInTop podcast interviewed Leonid Sirotin. We publish the printed version of the conversation with the kind permission of the podcast on App2Top.ru .

Marketing October 26, 2015

Newzoo: Who are advertising users and why are they needed?

The analytical company Newzoo shared data on users, whom it calls “advertisers”. She told who they are, how many of them are in mobile, and most importantly – why they are needed.

Games October 26, 2015

Supercell announced major updates to Clash of Clans during Clash Season

Last Saturday, the Finnish studio Supercell held a Clash Season conference in Helsinki for fans of the Clash of Clans game. During the event, the company announced updates to its title game.

Conferences October 26, 2015

White Nights Moscow 2015: Odnoklassniki report

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next in line is the performance of Arthur Shakalis, head of the gaming direction of the company’s Odnoklassniki social network Mail.Ru Group. In his report, Arthur talked about what the Odnoklassniki mobile gaming platform will be like.

Digests October 26, 2015

The main thing for the working week (19.10.2015 – 23.10.2015)

Where to get money for traffic if Apple hasn’t paid yet; are there Greenlight games that are not included in the Top 100; how much Mail.Ru The Group earns money on MMO games per quarter – this is not only in our traditional selection of the most important materials for the past week.

Conferences October 23, 2015

NextCastle Party 2015 will open on October 31

Next Saturday, the fourth festival of retro and indie games NextCastle Party 2015 will open in St. Petersburg.

Industry October 23, 2015

Game Insight: new “Natives” will be released next year

Next year, the sequel to “The Natives” will be released,” Game Insight CEO Anatoly Ropotov said in his interview with GamesBeat.

Money October 23, 2015

SuperData: sales in the digital games market reached $5.4 billion

In September, sales in the digital games market totaled $5.4 billion. This is 11% more than in the same period last year, – according to the analytical company SuperData Research.

Conferences October 23, 2015

White Nights Moscow 2015: Appodeal Report

We continue to post videos from the conferenceWhite Nights Moscow 2015. Next up is a speech by Pavel Golubev, founder and CEO of Appodeal. In his report, he spoke about programmatic mediation, and also shared how his company helped increase earnings for a number of gaming companies.

Conferences October 23, 2015

White Nights Moscow 2015: report VK.com

We are starting to upload video reports from the most recent White Nights Moscow 2015. The first in line is Maxim Babicheva from VK.com . In his speech, he tells how the mobile gaming platform VKontakte will change in the near future.

Development October 23, 2015

Apps Ministry: a brief post-mortem of working with the Fixiki brand

In connection with the release of the “Fixy Runner“, Apps Ministry shared with App2Top.ru a brief history of working with the Fixiki brand.

Games October 23, 2015

ZeptoLab celebrates the fifth anniversary of Cut the Rope and announces the continuation of the game

ZeptoLab is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its title game Cut the Rope. In honor of this event, players will receive gifts. The company also announced the continuation of the series about Am-Nyama.

Games October 22, 2015

Netrunner will become a mobile RPG with the participation of the author of 80 days

Android Card Board Game: Netrunner will be released on mobile devices as an RPG. The script for the game will be written by Meg Yant (Meg Jayanth), who worked on the plot of the game 80 days.

Development October 22, 2015

How Football Tactics Passed Greenlight without getting into the Top 100

Director and game designer of Creoteam Andrey Kosciusko in his blog described in detail how his team’s latest game is a turn-based strategy Football Tactics – managed to pass the Greenlight on the Steam platform without getting into the Top 100 there, and also shared how he promoted the project. With the kind permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.