On June 11, at 23.00 Moscow time, Ubisoft launched a presentation at E3. She did without a large number of announcements. At the same time, it cannot be called disappointing. The French did not skimp on CG trailers, product details and gameplay demonstrations of upcoming products. About the most interesting — in our material.

As part of the presentation at E3, Microsoft announced the doubling of the number of internal studios. She bought four previously independent companies, and also launched another subsidiary in Santa Monica.

On June 10, at 23.00 Moscow time, Microsoft’s presentation at the E3 gaming exhibition began. The company demonstrated 50 projects. Fifteen of them were announced for the first time. About the main ones — in our material.

On June 9, at 21.00 Moscow time, the first large-scale presentation of E3 2018 took place. It was conducted by Electronic Arts. In our article there is a short story about what one of the main players in the gaming market showed.

Slovak startup Lubos has made the Armory version 0.4 3D game engine publicly available. Lubos is known as the author of the popular software package for three-dimensional modeling Blender.

On June 7, the world release of the new game Nekki — football manager 11×11 New Season took place. The high-profile launch of the project in Russia took place a little earlier. About the new game, the unique three-way cooperation with Apple and MTS, as well as its first results App2Top.ru asked Nikita Korzhavin, Business Development Director of Nekki.

Valve has announced the rejection of censorship in games released on the Steam platform. The company said that they do not want to decide for gamers which games they should or should not play. Therefore, Valve allows you to publish titles on Steam with any legitimate content, with the exception of projects created for the sake of outright trolling.

In January-March of this year, video games worth ₽1 billion were sold in the Russian retail. Sales of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo consoles for the same period amounted to 2.4 billion rubles. This is reported by the Russian retailer “M.Video” together with the M.GAME project and the Eldorado company.

Developers and publishers on Steam will soon have the opportunity to create personal pages. They will display games published by companies on the Valve platform. This is reported on the Steamworks website.

On May 18, Taptap Heroes was released worldwide on Google Play. Formally, this is a clicker with a collectible card meta, which is distinguished by a high product value and a number of interesting developments. Since its release, its daily revenue on the Android platform has grown from $ 5 to $ 10 thousand.

Timo Soininen, director of the Finnish studio Small Giant Games, told VentureBeat why the team concentrated all its efforts on one game, Empires & Puzzles, and how it managed to attract multimillion-dollar investments for it. We offer a brief retelling of the material.

The social network Facebook has launched a page with game broadcasts and opened a new Level Up program designed to support video game streamers.

The first investment of the Finnish Supercell in the American gaming market was the Redemption Games studio.

On June 4, Apple opened the annual conference for developers – WWDC 2018. During the first day, a solemn presentation with software announcements took place. One of the main events was the ARKit 2 show. We decided to coincide with this announcement with a conversation with Andrey Ivashentsev about the present and future of AR.

Bad Robot Productions Film Studio directed by J. J. Abrams together with the Chinese giant Tencent has formed a gaming division Bad Robot Games. The minority investor of the project was Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

The App Store Connect service is a version of iTunes Connect adapted exclusively to the needs of application developers.

The sprite platformer Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon by the Japanese studio Inti Games scored more than 100 thousand downloads in the first 2 weeks. More than half (56%) of the title downloads were made by Nintendo Switch users.

Apple has updated the rules for publishing applications in the App Store. According to the updated policy, in order to be placed in the official Apple store, programs should not allow users to buy content outside the App Store. Failure to comply with this condition did not allow Valve to release the Steam Link game streaming application in the App Store.

Creating a sequel to Pillars of Eternity was a difficult task – every bold step taken by developers from Obsidian Entertainment was accompanied by doubts, and whether the changes would alienate fans. For some fans of the game, the final product really caused anger. Josh Sawyer, a member of the development team, showed with concrete examples why the authors were forced to make this or that decision.