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My.Games launches publishing programme aimed at hypercasual developers
"More than 13 years' experience developing and publishing games"
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Interview
Why Tencent thinks now is the right time to launch Arena of Valor in Russia and MENA
Arena of Valor executive producer Ray Ning and TiMi Studios director Vincent Gao discuss the move
Global Expansion
Tencent launches hugely popular MOBA Arena of Valor in Russia and MENA
200 million players worldwide to date
Local Community
MyTona, inDriver, and Arsen Tomsky pledge $500,000 to Russian hospitals amid coronavirus pandemic
Funds will be used to purchase lung ventilators
All Together
My.Games' Big Deal Conference returns in April 2020
Being held in Moscow
Acquisition
Playrix acquires Serbian game studio Eipix Entertainment
“With over a decade of experience, the team of Eipix Entertainment has proven to be one of the most talented teams on the market”
Home Sweet Home
Playrix’s Homescapes surpasses $1 billion in lifetime revenue at $4.60 per download
More than 223 million downloads in just over two years
Nice Growth
Mobile games boost My.Games' revenues 27% in Q3 2019
The firm is launching an new store in Q4
Sick Acquisition
My.Games acquires Love Sick studio Swag Masha
Companies had already worked together to launch the developer's flagship title
Beta Success
DOTA Underlords public beta reaches 1.5 million mobile downloads in seven days
Russia garnered the largest number with approximately 210,000 installs
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: ZeptoLab’s Jorge Rosado on how to become a game designer
“I was naive enough to think that I would become a millionaire and would be able to afford a Ferrari with my very first game”
Rebranding
Mail.ru Group brings development and publishing operations under My.Games brand
58 per cent of company's 2018 revenue came from mobile
Live And Kicking
Five years on: Pixonic on keeping the War Robots community happy
"We’re working on a secret feature that will be a huge step in War Robots history"
To Infinity And Beyond
PepsiCo planned space campaign against "unjustified prejudices" towards gamers
Part of a push to promote new Russian energy drink
Crashed
Nintendo investigates conduct of its Russia GM following Mario Kart live stream outburst
Russian Nintendo fans subsequently circulated a petition asking for his dismissal
New Shelter
Bethesda opens Moscow sales and marketing branch
Firm announces opening of a studio it didn't already own
Hustle And Bustle
War Robots and Hustle Castle spur Mail.Ru’s game revenue to $89m
Mobile on the march at publisher
Collaboration
Playgendary teams up with ad platform Appodeal to publish casual games
Appodeal to lend its expertise and exclusive monetisation tools to the publisher's titles going forwards
Big Indie Pitch
The Big Indie Pitch arrives in Russia for the first time ever as a part of White Nights St. Petersburg 2018
Conference takes place on June 29th and 30th
Crackdown
Russia gives Apple one month to remove Telegram messenger from App Store
Could the App Store be blocked if Apple refuses to comply?
Majority Stake
Mail.RU acquires 51% stake in Russian Guild of Heroes dev Bit.Games
Developer making $1 million-plus a month from hit title
Oops
Twitch, Nintendo, Vainglory and others blocked in Russia amidst Telegram crackdown
Attempts to ban messenger app result in other websites and services going offline
Bucks For Bangs
Panzerdog raises $950,000 from Mail.Ru to launch mobile shooter Tacticool
Finnish/Russian dev closes seed round
Market Value
Russia’s mobile games market brought in nearly $700 million in revenue in 2016
Revenues grew 16% year-on-year in 2016
Cover Russia
The story of an ARPG success in Russia: GTarcade on Legacy of Discord: Furious Wings
GTarcade shares its experiences of releasing in the Russian games market
Blossoming Revamp
Deconstructing Gardenscapes' big pivot to success
Wooga's Adam Telfer analyses the game's history and reasons behind its current success
The Charticle
Charting the rise of Russian mobile gaming powerhouse Playrix
How Township, Fishdom and Gardenscapes are growing the studio's reputation
Pokemon Law
Russian blogger sentenced after posting video online of himself playing Pokemon GO in a church
Ruslan Sokolovsky found guilty of insulting religious believers and inciting hatred
Cheque In The Mail
Mail.Ru opens $100 million games investment arm
Offering money and support to developers
Now Playing
Now Playing: Wooga CEO Jens Begemann on Gardenscapes - New Acres
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Russian Ua
The secret sauce to mobile UA in the Russian market
Rebound Mobile spills the secrets
Mail.ru Pix Pixonic
Mail.ru acquires War Robots developer Pixonic for up to $30 million
Gets a foothold in key Asia markets
Fansourcing
Updated: My.com sets up new studio to crack mobile MOBAs
Planet of Heroes will be Fast Forward's debut
A Winning Hand (shake)
6 years and 2.8 trillion poker hands later, success is all about community says Pokerist dev
Crunching years of data
London Calling
Pokerist dev KamaGames expands with new London office, hires Daniel Kashti and Sam Forrest
Appoints new CMO and PR
Next Top Designer
ZeptoLab seeks the next big designer with its Game Designer Challenge
Have you got what it takes?
New Battles
Tencent releases Nekki's 90 million downloaded Shadow Fight 2 in China
A whole new territory
Under The Ua Radar
250 million installs without paid UA makes Nekki a Russian success story
Moscow-based firm also announces Vector 2
Right Match
How to win over the indies developers that really matter
Sergey Babaev is looking for partners
Thieving Epidemic
King of Thieves celebrates 10 million downloads with the launch of Guild Battles
Guild Battles promise to make competition even more cutthroat
Integrated Approach
Using Flash for UA and mobile to monetise, Doodle God dev JoyBits hits 170 million downloads
Taking advantage of each platform
Another Hero
Herocraft marketing man Alexey Sazonov announces Krabwerk start-up
Kaliningrad gets a new developer
Deal
YeahMobi signs social media marketing deal with VKontakte
Russia's Facebook opens up for Chinese game developers
Synergetic, not cannabalistic: How Facebook is becoming gaming's glue
Gaming partnerships guru Bob Slinn talks cross platform
Interview
You can't port PC games direct to mobile, says Russian online powerhouse My.com
It's a dead-end path
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Vlad Suglobov
G5's CEO on riding the mobile boom
Unity to back Russian developers with launch of new Moscow office
For Russia with love
Why learning to speak a little French in Paris could help you crack the Russian mobile market
Nevosoft's Julia Lebedeva on learning local rules