Kotaku has gathered rumors around Google and the Yeti streaming platform under development. At the moment, it is known that the company en masse hires experienced developers and actively discusses the prospects of the platform with possible partners.

At the end of last week, St. Petersburg turned into the capital of European game development for a couple of days. On June 28-29, the sixteenth conference for game developers White Nights was held in the city on the Neva. The guests of the event were 1,655 representatives of the industry.

For recommendations of Google Play games and apps, high retention rates, rare crashes and a low number of deletions have gained more weight.

The winners of the Unreal Dev Grants program, which is conducted by Epic Games to support developers working on the Unreal engine, have been determined. $1 million was distributed among 37 teams. Among the grant recipients are the Moscow studio Mundfish and its Atomic Heart project.

The developers of the Adjust analytical platform told about the average retention level, the number of sessions and the number of user actions in the gaming mobile in their latest report.

The executive director of Paradox Interactive, Ebba Ljungerud, spoke about the company’s immediate plans. It is going to acquire several more game studios, strengthen its influence in Asia and bring revenues from the mobile market to 10% in 2020.

Nintendo Switch continues to demonstrate that it is today the main platform for indie platformers. Hollow Knight has sold 250 thousand copies in just two weeks since its release on the console.

The developer of the indie platformer The End is Night, Tyler Glaiel, gave the Steam Spy service a code that, according to him, will increase the accuracy of estimates of game sales on Steam.

Last week passed under the sign of White Nights, but we will tell you about it in detail only next week. In the meantime, let’s focus on the materials that were published before the conference. Among the central ones: a guide to the gaming industry of Ukraine; a detailed story about creating a template for bugs; and an exciting story by HyperTrain Digital about how to properly launch projects on Kickstarter.

The Russian indie game Stoneshard has raised more than $ 100 thousand on Kickstarter. How did she manage it, App2Top.ru I asked the publisher of the project, HypeTrain Digital.

Snapchat messenger will allow third-party developers to create and release games in their application. This is reported by the publication The Information, citing a source close to the Snapchat-owning company Snap Inc. The company itself has not commented on these rumors yet.

Mobile The Sims: Freeplay is banned from distribution in China, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt. Electronic Arts does not name a specific reason, but fans are sure that this is due to the opportunity to play LGBT characters.

The credit company LendEDU has studied in detail the habits and expenses of players in the Fortnite freeplay battle royale. Two-thirds of respondents buy in-game content. At the same time, the average Fortnite fan has already spent $84.7 in the game since the beginning of this year.

The MMO action game World of Tanks Blitz has turned four years old, during which time the game has reached 100 million downloads on all platforms.

Developer of the popular “battle royale” PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS studio PUBG Corp. withdrew a lawsuit against Epic Games without explanation. The termination of the case was reported by the business publication Bloomberg.

The international mobile analytics company Adjust has launched a free, open-source tool for evaluating the effectiveness of applications. It is designed to help developers and marketers figure out how successfully their product will show itself on the market.

In 2018, the esports market reached $926.3 million in revenue, and by 2023, industry revenues will grow to $2.17 billion, according to the analytical company Research and Markets.

Now the developers of crypto games will be able to attract an audience again using Facebook – the social network has lifted the ban on advertising cryptocurrencies and related products on the social network.

The global turnover of digital purchases in the video game industry in May 2018 reached $9.1 billion. This is 25% more than the result of May last year, which amounted to $ 7.3 billion, according to the analytical company SuperData Research.