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The Walking Dead: Season 4 will be the last game made on Telltale Games’ own engine. Sources claim that the company’s new games will be made on Unity.

The developer of the banking software ACI and the analytical company Newzoo investigated the habits of gamers in three countries to understand how and for what they are willing to pay money in video games.

According to a report by the Gaming in Turkey agency, in 2017, the Turkish gaming market earned $810 million, of which $372.4 million came from the mobile segment.

Ubisoft has recently been criticized for touching on political and social issues in games, but is afraid to admit it. Responding to criticism, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that the company really wants players to think about complex and serious topics, but is not going to impose its position on them.

Yesterday, June 25, Playgendary and Appodeal made an announcement. The companies have launched a program of publishing casual games for mobile platforms. Now they are looking for publishing projects.

The author of the not yet released mobile arcade Donut County Ben Esposito (Ben Esposito) accused the French publisher Voodoo of plagiarism. As it turned out, Voodoo managed to make a clone of Donut County and release it in the App Store before the original.

ACHIEVERS HUB and UNIT companies.City has released a guide to the Ukrainian gaming industry. It reveals such questions as: how many gaming teams are there in the country, where are they located, what sources of funding are they using? We provide a brief version of the material.

Premium mobile games rarely achieve the same success as free—to-play titles, but the Monument Valley franchise of Ustwo studio is an exception to the rule. The revenues of the second part of the mobile puzzle in the first year after the release exceeded $10.4 million — twice as much as the first Monument Valley generated in the same period.

What should a good bug report that occurs in the game necessarily include? An article for developers and testers.

Atari has quarreled with the technology publication The Register after the material about its future product — the Atari VCS console. According to Atari, The Register journalist distorted the words of the company’s representatives and outlined personal speculation instead of objective first-hand data. In response, The Register published an audio recording of the conversation confirming the initial allegations.

The European top 10 sales of games from June 11 to 17 have been published. FIFA 18 remains in the first place for the third week.

Microsoft Corporation now calculates royalties for game publishers using blockchain technology based on its own Azure cloud service. According to the company, the transition to blockchain will significantly accelerate payments to publishers who release their titles on the Xbox platform.

The Russian publisher and localizer of MMO games Innova has launched a mobile direction. The company is going to cooperate with independent developers of games for smartphones and tablets.

How to enter the gaming market of China? What kind of games are popular on it? Is it worth entering the Chinese market on your own? These and many other issues will be discussed at White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 as part of a separate round table. We suggest coming up with questions for him. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket.

The World Health Organization has recognized gaming addiction as a mental disorder; Valve has started an open beta test of publishers’ pages on Steam; the development of a 16-year-old designer has become the game of the day in the App Store; — this and not only in the digest of the main events of the gaming industry from App2Top.ru .

The introduction of celebrities and popular movie and television characters into the game is a common practice in the mobile sphere. Now Lithuanian Game Insight has started to practice it actively. The other day she launched a large-scale event in her 60 million blockbuster “Natives”. The face of the new event was Garfield the cat, a popular hero of comics and animated series. We tell you exactly how the company implemented the brand in its…

Bethesda Softworks has filed a lawsuit against the Canadian studio Behavior Interactive. The reason was the Westworld mobile game based on the TV series of the same name, developed by Behavior. Bethesda claims that Westworld is an explicit clone of the Fallout Shelter mobile simulator, created based on the source code of the game without the permission of the copyright holder.

Games in the App Store earn more money compared to Google Play, but Apple’s mobile platform does not guarantee high and stable incomes for most iOS title developers. According to the analytical company Apptopia, the revenue of games in the App Store quickly peaks and falls, and three-quarters of all revenue comes from the top 50 box office titles of the store.