In several American cities, it became possible to order the first Magic Leap augmented reality glasses, in which investors invested $ 2.3 billion.

Christoph Hartmann, who previously headed 2K Games, joined Amazon Game Studios as vice president.

Mobile games may be despised by a certain group of players. At the same time, it would be a mistake to assume that only a casual audience plays in them. As the analytical company EEDAR insists in its research, the most avid gamers also do not deny themselves this pleasure.

Wanted: an advertising buying manager at G5 Entertainment, a community manager at Nevosoft and a leading 3d artist at Pixonic.

Vadim told inspiring personal stories about how he created the first games at the dawn of the era of video games. The creator of the legendary “Field of Miracles” knows exactly the answers to the most important questions for beginners. Does a bestseller need code quality? How old should a developer be? Will a layman be able to earn a million?

Former head of the Odnoklassniki gaming platform Artur Shakalis in an interview App2Top.ru he told about the forced departure from the social network and what the HTML5 games market lacks for explosive growth.

Quick sales will reappear on Steam two years after Valve canceled this feature. Developers will be able to choose for how many hours the cost of the title will be reduced.

The PC version of the multiplayer RPG Fallout 76 will be distributed only through the service Bethesda.net , the game will not appear on Steam.

Svyatoslav Torik from Wargaming Research & Development conducted a survey to find out how Russian-speaking game designers create game concepts and relate to colleagues.

A selection of ten books that tell interesting stories about video games, development and the gaming industry in general.

A large-scale opinion poll among independent Unity developers showed that it takes more than a year to develop a good project, studios rarely develop only one game, interest in VR/AR is growing in the industry, and developers are looking for new employees among acquaintances and in social networks.

Report by Elena Egorova from myTarget. In her speech, Elena talked about how to increase the number of installations and increase the return and user engagement rates in 3 months.

According to Newzoo, the Chinese gaming market has reached a turnover of $37.9 billion. This year, Chinese gamers will spend $10.4 billion more than last year.

The founders of Team Cherry studio described in detail how the indie hit Hollow Knight appeared – from the first ideas to the grueling final testing.

At the beginning of the week, there was a rumor that Fortnite would not be published on Google Play. Today, this information was confirmed by Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney. He stated that the game will be available for download from the official Fortnite website.

The revenues of the British company Games Workshop, which owns the rights to the Warhammer franchise, increased by 94% over the year. The company receives 96% of its licensing revenue from video games*.

The Chinese market is becoming more and more interesting for developers and publishers of mobile games every year. However, the question of how to get to it correctly is still relevant. Is adding Chinese to the game enough? How big are the cultural differences? Which stores makes sense to work with? Is a local representative really necessary? The speakers answered these and other questions during the round table.

The Skolkovo Foundation proposes to exempt Russian developers from paying VAT for equipping the workplaces of programmers writing software for export.

The affiliate program, which allowed websites with reviews of iOS applications to receive a percentage of purchases in the App Store, will be closed from October 1.