The Tapjoy mobile advertising platform has introduced a new format of mobile video ads called Interactive End Cards — interactive slides embedded in the video with additional information.

Finnish studio Fingersoft has opened a data-oriented publishing label for mobile games Round Zero.

Forbes business magazine has included Valve CEO Gabe Newell in the top hundred richest Americans. Newell’s fortune is estimated at $5.5 billion.

Testing of monetization in games has started on the HTML5 platform Instant Games. Facebook debugs advertising and microtransactions.

The creator of the music games Harmonix fired 14 people. The company explained this by the need to reduce overhead costs. This is the second reduction in the studio staff this year.

We talked about the situation around LawBreakers with Dan Nanni, BossKey’s lead designer.

The mobile strategy of Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire by MZ studio and Square Enix has crossed the milestone of 20 million downloads.

Nintendo has announced the sale of more than 2 million units of the Nintendo Switch console in the United States.

A week ago, Wargaming announced the launch of a development studio in Moscow. We took a short interview about her from the head of the new office, Andrey Zimenko.

Google has opened the acceptance of works for the competition for developers of Android games Google Play Indie Games Contest. This year, for the first time, game creators from Russia and 27 other European countries will be able to participate in it.

Former Visceral Games studio level designer Zach Wilson called the cost of developing a sequel to the sci-fi horror Dead Space — $ 60 million.

Obsidian will release a novel and a series of short stories about the Pillars of Eternity role-playing game universe on the Bound mobile platform for literary works.

Capcom announced the delivery of 4 million copies of Resident Evil VII horror to stores 10 months after the launch of the game.

Game trailer editor Derek Lieu has compiled a selection of specifications for creating game trailers for various platforms.

How was the work on the paid version of Shadow Fight 2 going and how much she was able to earn, – Nikita Korzhavin, director of business Development at Nekki, told on his Facebook page. With the permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

The Finnish mobile studio Nitro Games has generated $3.1 million by selling 500 thousand new shares.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Activision a patent for using the method of “stimulating [making] microtransactions in multiplayer games.”

In the UK, a group of citizens demanded that the government equate loot boxes (sets with random game content) in video games with gambling and restrict access to them to minors.

The “augmented reality” startup Magic Leap raised $502 million in the investment round of the “D” series.