The premiere of the documentary show “New World with Nina Serebryannikova” took place on YouTube. The first series is dedicated to the life of the Russian-speaking IT community — including gaming — in Cyprus. Among the speakers is the Minister of Innovation and Digital Legislation of the island.

Stream/podcast on a legal topic. Together with Roman Lukyanov, managing partner of Semenov &Pevzner, we discuss numerous lawsuits against CD Projekt, as well as the desire of the Ministry of Health to suspend the circulation of violent video games in Russia.

The company Azur Games, which previously specialized exclusively in mobile titles, a week ago announced the launch of its first project on consoles — battle royale Axes.io . We talked with Dmitry Yaminsky, CEO of the company, about why the mobile publisher decided to go to consoles, and also whether he has ambitions to take this market seriously in general.

Why gaming companies go on the stock exchange, does it really force them to treat their employees worse, and why some choose European markets for the placement of shares, while others choose American ones — Dmitry Burkovsky, Chief Investment Officer at Xsolla, talked about these and other topics.

Discussing the success of Genshin Impact. The other day it became known that only the mobile version of the game collected $ 140 million. Alexander Bazhan, Head of the Game Analytics and Design Department at My.Games Venture Capital, helped us figure out the secret of Genshin Impact.

In today’s issue of Industry on Thursdays, we talked with Stepan Shulga, head of the esports division of Parimatch. We discussed what the modern Russian-speaking esports market is today, how it works, what it earns and whether it earns at all. They also touched upon such topics as brands, betting business and legislative initiatives of the Russian Federation.

We are posting a new issue of the program “Industry on Thursdays“. Yesterday our guest wasMaxim Fomichev, producer of Pixonic. We talked with him about how a major graphical update to War Robots is being prepared for release, including thanks to which the game was shown at the last Apple presentation.

Starting this Thursday, we are launching a new format — live interviews on current topics. Our first — today’s — issue is dedicated to the legal news of game dev. Together with Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov& Pevzner Law Firm, we analyzed two cases: a trial between Supercell and GREE, as well as a trial between Voodoo and Rollic Games.

Today, July 1, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to game analytics. Vera Karpova from devtodev will talk about building analytical processes at each stage of the game creation.

A new one-hour interview from App2Top.ru . This time we talked with Ivan Domankov, co-founder and managing partner of Highcore Games. In the center of the conversation is the story of the launch of the midcore mobile game Tanks A Lot.

Today, on June 3, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on the WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to hyper-casual games. Developers, publishers and marketers will discuss the future of the niche, as well as discuss how the COVID-19 situation has affected hyper-casual games.

At the end of April, MRGV turned three years old. We decided that this was a great opportunity to talk to its managing director Ilya Karpinsky about the relationship between developers and publishers.

Today, on May 27, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to management against the background of COVID-19. Participants will tell how tasks are solved remotely, including in EA and King.

Broadcast of a round table dedicated to the discussion of tactical RPGs.  The genre and features of its game design are discussed by representatives of Wargaming and Pixonic.

At the end of April, Epic Games, together with our colleagues from Disgusting Men, announced the Second nationwide competition for game developers on Unreal Engine 4. We discussed with Alexey Savchenko why it is needed and how it will take place.

On April 28, the Frozen Flame game from Dreamside Interactive was released on the Fig crowdfunding platform. She scored the required amount in the first week — $ 50 thousand. This is the first Russian project on the platform and one of the few domestic desktop AA games. We talked about the history of development, personnel hunger, working with investors and, of course, entering Fig with the owner of the studio Sergey Korolev.

Converting a user into a paying player is one of the most difficult tasks. At the same time, it will not be possible to radically increase their share. More than 4% of the total audience is unlikely to happen anyway. Therefore, Facebook recommends taking a closer look at the hybrid monetization model today. This is when there is advertising in the game, in addition to IAP. The video tells about how to implement such a…

How big is the demand in the domestic outsourcing market, is there competition in it, how has the coronavirus affected it? We talked about this and more with the heads of Owl Studio, SunStrike Studio and GD Forge.

What is going on in the hyper-casual games market? How difficult is it to launch your own studio in this niche? Is viral success possible? Under what conditions do publishers work with developers of hyper-casual games today? We talked about this and not only in the format of a video interview with Alexander Filatov, co-founder of Hypernova Games.