On January 31, the Japanese publisher Capcom published the commercial results from April to December 2017. During this period, the publisher earned more on games than a year earlier. Both net sales and operating profit increased. Capcom explains the good performance with excellent sales of four titles.

In the new series of publications “School of Promotion” we analyze what is meant by the word “advertiser” when it comes to advertising mobile games and applications. Ilya Seregin, FeedWise project manager at Mobio, helps us with this.

January 29, British Retro Games Ltd. Together with the German gaming distributor Koch Media has resumed active promotion of the THEC64 Mini — a miniature version of the Commodore 64 home computer.

The Chinese publisher NetEase and the American toy manufacturer Mattel have created a video game development studio called Mattel163.

From the beginning of April to the end of December 2017, Nintendo earned $7.8 billion. This is stated in the company’s financial report for the three quarters of 2017.

Electronic Arts re-activates microtransactions in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. This was confirmed by the company’s management.

Wanted: the head of the user purchase department at Nekki, a game designer at KamaGames Studio and an analyst of game updates at Kefir!.

The analytical company SuperData has published a large-scale study of the video game market by the end of 2017 (excluding retail). The main figures and facts are in our material.

Producer and co-founder of Bobaka Alexander Nasonov left the company. He headed a new gaming startup company, GROSSING.GAMES.

Microsoft announced the purchase of the PlayFab cloud service. It offers tools for developing, launching and analyzing games that work with cloud data.

Ubisoft has canceled a planned increase in the price tag for the online shooter Rainbow Six: Siege due to user dissatisfaction.

Hyper Light Drifter producer and designer Teddy Dief is returning to indie development. He decided to leave the Montreal division of Square Enix after the cancellation of his new project.

The Playtika social casino factory has announced the launch of a new division – Playtika Growth Investments. It is going to invest up to $400 million in companies from Israel that are engaged in entertainment or consumer-oriented business.

According to rumors, Microsoft is ready to radically deal with the lack of exclusives for Xbox. To do this, the IT giant is eyeing the purchase of Electronic Arts and other gaming companies.

Facebook is developing its own platform for game streaming. As part of this, the company officially launched the Gaming Creator Pilot Program. The goal of the program is to attract new creators of gaming video content to Facebook and help them gain an audience.

Among the most popular iOS search queries in December in the USA are Deer Hunter 2018 and Pixel Gun 3D. However, the leader is a request for Belarusian Pixel Art.

Deliveries of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action have become the best in the history of the franchise. In the first three days, Capcom sent over 5 million copies to stores and sold them in numbers.

“Faster does not mean worse,” says independent developer Jake Birkett, speaking about the timing of the creation of video games.

On February 1, a White Nights meetup will take place in Berlin with the participation of King and Wooga. We suggest that its participants come up with questions. The authors of the best questions will be awarded premium tickets to the Prague White Nights session.