Machine Zone has cut about 125 employees. According to VentureBeat sources, employees responsible for marketing campaigns and user engagement have been hit by a wave of layoffs.

Russia ranks 11th in the world in terms of the turnover of the gaming market, the analytical company Newzoo has calculated. According to her, by the end of the year, the country’s market will earn $ 1.7 billion.

The tab with games not yet released on Steam has been improved and renamed to “Popular Future Products”. Now this list will be formed taking into account the interests of a particular user to make the search more productive. The developers recognized that when the list was simply replenished with all future titles, it was practically useless.

The stream from the convention of fans of the free-play MMO RPG Warframe gathered an audience of 414 thousand viewers on Twitch, which is 25 times more than last year’s result. The developers actively encouraged fans to watch the broadcast, rewarding viewers with free loot.

The Google Play Games app has started testing a new section called “Hub” — a personalized news feed about mobile games.

Publisher Tilting Point, created by natives of Electronic Arts, announced that it will invest $132 million each year in mobile developers’ games, helping them to increase the app’s findability and get more traffic.

The Clash Royale strategy, one of the hits of the Finnish Supercell, has already brought its creators $ 2 billion, of which $40 million in the last month.

Analysts from Sensor Tower made the top 10 countries in terms of App Store spending per capita. It turned out that no country in the world can compare with Japan in this indicator.

Nick Pearce has developed a popular mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim called The Forgotten City. For his project, he received an award from the Writers’ Union of Australia, and now he is making a full-fledged game based on the mod.

The status of Nintendo Switch as the main indie platform is strengthening every month. The other day, Nintendo’s top managers announced that they consider the indie scene an integral part of the Switch gaming environment and will work to ensure that 20-30 new independent projects appear on the platform every week.

Swedish-Austrian THQ Nordic continues to expand actively. The new purchase of the corporation is the German HandyGames, which develops and publishes mobile games.

Electronic Arts acquired Industrial Toys studio, specializing in the development of mobile games for gamers (for enthusiastic players – approx.). The studio was founded by Alex Seropian, who participated in the development of the Halo, Myth and Marathon game series.

Brazil ranks 13th in terms of spending by gamers, according to the analytical company Newzoo. According to her forecasts, by the end of the year Brazilians will spend $ 1.5 billion on the games.

The preliminary national standard for mobile applications includes 87 requirements for developers, but all of them are advisory in nature, according to Roskachestvo.

The revenues of the mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions have grown almost fivefold, analysts from Sensor Tower reported. It’s all about the release of the movie “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and the corresponding new content in the game.

Using a loophole in the statistics of gaming achievements, Ars Technica calculated the approximate number of game owners on Steam. The most popular game in the store turned out to be Team Fortress 2, which has more than 50 million owners.

Australia currently ranks 14th in the world in terms of player spending, Newzoo analysts have calculated. The total revenue of the market in 2018 will be $1.3 billion.

id Software has always been famous for creating games on its own engines, but its new project, Rage 2, is made on Apex. The head of id, Tim Willits, told what dictated such a decision.

Fate Grand Order, a mobile role-playing game with freeplay monetization, has become the main source of revenue for Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony.