Another top manager left the creators of Angry Birds. Senior Vice President for Investor Relations and Relations Rauno Heinonen left his post at Rovio. He joined the company 7 months ago.

The venture fund Altered Ventures announced its intention to invest $36 million in new projects. The company promises to give priority to game developers from developing countries.

The creator of the analytical service Steam Spy Sergey Galenkin told about the problems in the work of the resource. He tweeted about it on the service. According to Galenkin, the collection of up-to-date data is difficult due to the fact that Steam has closed access to users’ game libraries.

Report by Jiri Kupiainen from Matchmade. The speaker spoke about the latest trends in influence marketing and gave practical advice on how to work with influencers.

The dispute between the Russian studio Black Sun Game Publishing (BSGP) and the co-founder of the company “Akella” Dmitry Arkhipov about the rights to the franchise “Corsairs” was not resolved in favor of the latter. Arkhipov’s company was unable to challenge the court’s decision on the early termination of trademark protection.

Wanted: Unity developer at Belka Games, traffic purchasing manager at Whalekit (formerly Moscow Glu Mobile), VFX artist at Sperasoft and Performance Marketing Director at Playrix.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot shared a fantastic plan. He intends to increase the audience of the company’s games 10 times within 10 years — from 500 million to 5 billion people.

On April 9, the analytical company App Annie published results on global downloads and revenues for the first quarter of 2018. According to the data, both indicators continue to grow. One of the growth factors is games.

Thekla Inc studio has opened a grant competition for independent game developers. The main conditions for participation are interest in the genre of puzzles and belonging to “underrepresented” groups in the gaming industry.

Grand Theft Auto V is not the highest-grossing entertainment media product in history. The initial statement of the financial information and analytics site MarketWatch was incorrect. For comparison, the revenues of the role-playing MMO World of Warcraft by 2017 reached $ 10 billion — almost twice as much as the revenue of GTA V for all time.

A report by Jonas Antonsson from Raw Fury. The speaker spoke about how the publisher works, what guides him when choosing a game.

On April 9, a post by Thomas Wijman, a consultant for the company, appeared on the Newzoo blog about the state of affairs in mobile gaming in India. Thomas believes that the largest state in South Asia is worth special attention today.

The number of players of the titles of the KamaGames social casino operator has reached 100 million people. This is stated in the company’s press release.

The State Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) of South Korea imposed a fine of $875 thousand on the Nexon gaming company for selling loot boxes. The department considered that the publisher misled the players about their chances of finding a particular reward in the loot chest.

The Chinese publisher NetEase has promised to sue the creators of mobile games that copy the creative solutions of the “royal battles” Rules of Survival and Knives Out. A few days ago, PUBG Corp. filed a similar lawsuit against NetEase.

The launch of the Far Cry 5 shooter on Steam has become the most successful in the history of the franchise. The peak attendance of the game reached 92 thousand gamers. This is reported by the analytical platform GitHyp.

Granny and Fortnite were the top two words among search queries in the US last month.

The Skillz mobile competition platform continues the rapid growth that began last year. Over the past 9 months, the revenue of the service has doubled and reached $ 200 million.

How Steam Direct, PUBG and the growth of China affected the largest PC gaming market in 2017, – Sergey Galenkin, director of publishing strategy at Epic Games and author of the Steam Spy service, told in his blog on Medium. We have translated the material into Russian.