For 9 years Samara Studio MONO has been making INSOMNIA: The Ark, a dark role-playing game set on a giant space station. In March it became known that the publisher of the game will be Kaliningrad HeroCraft. As part of the announcement, we talked a little with Studio MONO CEO Anatoly Nekrasov about the project.

Studio Eidos Montreal has revealed the total budget of the adventure thriller Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The company spent up to $135 million to create and promote the latest part of the Lara Croft saga.

The companies Playism and Kadokawa Corporation will release the Pixel Game Maker MV toolkit on the Western market. It is designed to create two-dimensional games with sprite graphics. Working with the program does not require programming skills and other special knowledge.

The analytical company SuperData considers advertising the best way to earn money for creators of mobile games and applications in augmented reality. This is due to the peculiarities of the format of AR applications, the researchers believe.

Sega Sammy Group summed up the results of fiscal year 2017 (ended March 31, 2018). According to the company’s report, Sega earned ¥57 billion ($522 million) from the sale of physical copies of its games, while digital sales of titles generated ¥38.5 billion ($352 million).

Report by Alexey Izvalov from Enhance. The speaker spoke about how, when developing a game, indie teams overlook important details that seem obvious at first glance.