The Internet is still reeling in the wake of the major news from Google and Apple. The close timing between the unveiling of Stadia, Google’s cloud-based video game platform, and the announcement of Arcade, Apple’s game subscription service, seems to have intensified the individual hype surrounding each reveal.

Today action-adventure is a complex genre with a big variety of standards and principles. We talked with John Pearl, the Design Director at Gunfire Games, about the main principles of working on levels of Darksiders III.

We asked Maxim Babichev — Head of Games at VK – what the new indie game platform will be ready to offer after the release and how VK plans to work with indie studios.

A few weeks ago the Uruguayan company Ironhide released next game in their tower defense Kingdom Rush series. We talked with the team about their experience.

As of October 2016, Russia’s MMO games market turnover had increased by a quarter compared to the same period last year.

A publishing company HeroCraft shared their promotion strategy on Steam taking “Tempest” game as an example.

Disney has announced the release of a mobile farm game “Moana Island Life” to follow its 3D cartoon “Moana”. Game Insight was in charge of the game development.

The next White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 video is a presentation from Cyril Barrow (Rovio Entertainment). He spoke about giving a freedom to a team.

The next White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 video is a presentation from Andreea Chifu (Paradox Interactive). She spoke about publisher’s role in game development.

The next White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 video is a presentation from Ben Liu (NetEase Games). He spoke about the Chinese mobile market and how to enter it.

The next White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 video is a presentation from Ekaterina Shapira and Anna Zhitnyuk (Google). They spoke about Google solutions for app promotion.