Wanted: Special effects designer at Belka Games, lead Unity developer at FunCorp and lead level designer at Azur Games.

Former Ubisoft executive producer Stefan Delacroix (Stéphane Decroix) has been appointed head of game development at the Swedish company Starbreeze. At Ubisoft, Delacroix worked on the Watch Dogs franchise, and at Starbreeze he will be responsible for the development of The Walking Dead, Crossfire, Payday and other titles.

The private equity fund of Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s largest investment banks, turned its attention to the gaming market and invested $200 million in the French developer and publisher of mobile games Voodoo.

The British developer and publisher of video games Codemasters officially goes on the stock exchange this week. According to preliminary estimates, the market value of the creators of the DiRT and GRID racing franchises was £280 million ($373 million).

The net profit of the publisher of the Pokémon franchise in 2017 decreased by 55%, but still became the second largest in the history of the company. This was reported by game analyst Serkan Toto, referring to information from the Japanese government publication Official Gazette.

Role-playing hack and slash from the creators Dead or Alive sold two million copies on Playstation 4 and PC, despite the failed launch of the desktop version.

As part of White Nights, a round table on esports will be held in St. Petersburg. Wargaming, Epic Games, ESforce, VKontakte and BuzzGuru will take part in it. We suggest that they come up with questions related to esports and the development of esports games. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.