The team of publishing labels of Take-Two Corporation has been replenished with a new name. Private Division, a brand specializing in ambitious indie projects, joined Rockstar Games and 2K. Among his first clients are Obsidian Entertainment and a number of famous game designers.

In November, a new fighting game from Nekki – Shadow Fight 3 – ranked seventh in the world in total downloads among mobile games.

One of the oldest gaming companies in the UK is planning to go public, but this is not for sure. According to Sky News, Codemasters studio intends to hold an IPO in the coming months. The company’s market value is tentatively estimated at £100 million.

Three-in-a-row is a profitable business. Since the launch of Best Fiends three years ago, the Finnish studio Seriously earned $100 million.

Returning Call of Duty to the World War II setting turned out to be a good idea. Call of Duty: WWII became the main driver of the growth of the video game market in the United States in November. The latter grew by 30% to $2.7 billion.

Report by Elena Zezulina from Unity Technologies. Elena told about Unity 2017 – a new generation of the platform for game development and not only. The new Unity received not only a new pipeline for the development of the engine itself, but also a large number of features, improvements and fixes, many of which are useful both for developers and for those who work with art.

The Odnoklassniki game producer told App2Top how the year went for the social network, as well as which projects and trends he considers the most important.

Head of HeroCraft Business Development Department Mikhail Kuzmin told App2Top.ru what his company has achieved in recent months and what milestones took place this year for the podcast “How games are made”.

Nintendo is doing well on mobile. Her third game for iOS and Android – Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp – has been downloaded 25 million times since its release on November 21. The project’s revenue was $17 million.

Another scandal at the end of the year. The German developer Crytek has sued the Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) team, which is working on the legendary cosmosim Star Citizen without five minutes.

Ksenia Sternina ‘s report from Mail.ru Group and Andrey Kislov from Brain Company. The speakers talked about how the methods of neurophysiology allow us to determine the biological reactions of the human body to various stimuli and understand what a gamer feels during the game. Comparing human reactions to different games of the same genre, you can determine what works better in them.

The founder of the Belarusian studio Total Games Alexey Meleshkevich told about the main trends of the last twelve months.

The British Gambling Commission has drawn attention to online casinos with gaming skins and items. Experts believe that through these sites, teenagers can get an experience of gambling and, as they say, get a taste.

The developer of social casinos FlowPlay will transfer its flagship title Vegas World to the cross-platform technology Haxe from the Adobe Flash platform in the next 2 years.

The founder of the company Nekki Dmitry Terekhin said App2Top.ru , which industrial trends and games he considers the main ones in the outgoing year.

BioWare Austin Creative Director James Ohlen spoke about the reasons that inspired the studio to create its own space saga Mass Effect instead of working on the sequel Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic.

It’s time to hurry up and prepare the build! Prague White Nights accepts applications for participation in the developer exhibition only until January 24.

The company Sperasoft, whose development studios are located in St. Petersburg and Volgograd, was acquired by the service provider Keywords Studios for $ 27 million.

Indian businessman Rakesh Jhunjhunwala has acquired a minority stake in mobile game developer Nazara Technologies for $27.9 million.