A report by Josh Larson from Kongregate. The speaker spoke about the platform Kongregate.com and the successful experience of running games on mobile devices, PCs and consoles.

Zak Garris, the head of the development of the scenario of the interactive adventure Life is Strange: Before the Storm, told how he managed to gather a creative team to work on the plot of the game. According to Harris, he was guided by the main rule: “no jerks in the team.”

The analytical company Newzoo has published an overview of the market of games in the genre of battle royale. The document tells the history of the segment, and also describes what is happening in this direction today. A brief retelling of the report is on our pages.

An action adventure with cooperative gameplay Sea of Thieves gathered more than 2 million gamers during the launch week. Half of this number played in the new Rare and Microsoft project on the day of the game’s release on March 20, according to the Xbox news service.

“Battle Royale” Fortnite Battle Royale generated $5.3 million on in-game purchases. Microtransactions appeared in the game 10 days ago, you can only buy cosmetic items through them. The title was released on March 15 on iOS, and so far you can get into it only by invitation.

Czech Shooter Shadowgun Legends is actively pumping. The total downloads of the game from iOS and Android on March 27 amounted to 1.5 million. The action movie collected its first million by Sunday.

The casual puzzle Bubble Shooter by the Israeli studio Ilyon Dynamics has gained more than 50 million downloads on iOS and Android. The game was released in 2015 and is distributed according to the frituplay model.

Report by Marina Michkova from Yandex. Marina talked about how to use Yandex tools to get maximum revenue from monetization of Russian mobile traffic, as well as about new Yandex mobile advertising products and optimization tools that allow you to increase sales revenue.

Texas-based studio Robot Entertainment has cut more than 30 people. The company explained this decision with the task to focus on the development of one title and not to disperse forces on several projects.

Wanted: narrative designer at Cubic Games, aspiring game designer at KB Production, as well as marketing analyst at Pixonic.

It is impossible without updates today. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about the development of a premium project or a frituplay. In any case, the players are waiting for supplements. That’s just not everyone can benefit. If the players do not accept the new thing, you will lose both money and the audience. Therefore, you need to test it before launching. How they do it — we tell you in the article.

Japanese developer and publisher Square Enix announced the opening of the Luminos Production studio. The head of the new division was appointed the project manager of the role-playing game Final Fantasy XV Hajime Tabata (Hajime Tabata).

The Finnish gaming firm Rovio plans to reduce monthly payments to the owner of the company Kai Hed and vice-chairman Mika Ihamuotila. The decision was preceded by a drop in the value of shares and a deterioration in the revenue forecast this year.

Report by Juanjo Monge from Lab Cave Games. The speaker talked about how to increase the conversion and download of the application using the right ASO strategy.

Unity Technologies has posted header files to Unity sources and its C# editor on GitHub. The company shared information so that game developers could better understand the device and the capabilities of the engine.

Spanish streamer Rubén Gundersen and 99 other video bloggers played the “battle Royale” Fortnite Battle Royale. The broadcast of their match on YouTube Live was simultaneously watched by over 1 million viewers. This is a record audience for a video game stream to date.

Snapchat messenger developer Snap Inc. has acquired the creators of the PlayCanvas game engine. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

The creative director of the shooter Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Dean Evans (Dean Evans) announced the imminent departure from Ubisoft, where he worked for 12 years. Evans decided to leave the company after management froze his latest project.

A report by Artem Petukhov from Pixonic. Using the example of War Robots, the speaker talked about what to pay attention to when working with influencers.