Wanted: mobile marketer at Playkot, marketing analyst at Game Insight, head of graphic design at Glu Mobile and release engineer at Social Quantum.

St. Petersburg Branch Wargaming.net ready to teach again. The studio announced that it is recruiting students for its own training course for the third time. The Wargaming Academy educational project opened its doors for the first time in 2015.

Since the beginning of 2017, over 6 thousand new games have been released on Steam — 40% more than published on the Valve platform for the whole of 2016.

On October 16, it became known that Mail.Ru The Group will be the publisher of PLAYERUNKNOWN’s BATTLEGROUNDS in Russia and the CIS. Whether this will affect the game and what the deal will bring to its participants – we talked with Daria Kot, the producer of the project from the Russian side.

Sony Music Entertainment has launched a new gaming label, Units, to publish titles on the Nintendo Switch console and other platforms.

Game Dev-edition 80.lv drew attention to the graphic editor Pyxel Edit, designed to create pixel art, sprite animation and work with tiles.

MOBA League of Legends in September again took the top 20 most popular games on the Twitch streaming platform, shifting the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds to second place.

The Chinese group of companies Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited has acquired 20% of the studio Certain Affinity, which participated in the development of Halo 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

The VKontakte social network shared its gaming DAU and MAU, and also told which genres are most popular on the platform.

Sales of physical copies of the MMO shooter Destiny 2 by Activision Blizzard at the end of the first month were 50% less than the original for the same period.

Playrix has announced that its latest game, three—in-a-row Homescapes, has 28 million downloads after just a month since its worldwide release. Sensor Tower analysts also report high fees for the game.

The augmented reality startup Magic Leap intends to sell 37 million preferred shares of the “D” series at $27 apiece. This will bring the company almost a billion dollars.

In the top five mobile developers in Europe, who earned the most money in the world in August from the App Store and Google Play, there are two companies “with Russian roots”.

The two-dimensional platformer shooter Cuphead from StudioMDHR has sold more than 1 million copies since its release on September 29.

Online gaming media IGN has acquired the Humble Bundle company, known for selling video game sets and other content on the principle of “pay as much as you want”.

In the competition of the best Indie Game Cup games, whose ceremony was held at the Moscow White Nights, a role-playing game from the Russian team Aurum Dust took the Grand Prix.

On October 11, the Moscow session of White Nights, a conference for game developers and publishers, ended. This time it gathered 1300 guests from 40 countries of the world.

Glu Mobile company will replenish the portfolio of mobile games about celebrities with a new title The Swift Life, dedicated to American singer Taylor Swift.

The founders of Riot Games studio Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill intend to step away from managing the company and return directly to game development.