The head of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, was promoted to executive vice president of Microsoft and became one of the 16 top managers of the company.

This week, employees are looking for: LightMap (Pixel Gun 3D), Sperasoft (Assassin’s Creed Origins, Mass Effect, Star Wars Battlefront) and Nevosoft (“Planet of Gems”, “Wizards”).

Which search queries related to games were most popular in the territories of the USA and Russia in August, – App2Top.ru Sergey Zaichenko, CEO of AdvertMobile, told.

The Words With Friends word puzzle from the mobile publisher Zynga has gained more than 200 million downloads in 8 years of existence.

The main advantage of working with games under popular licenses is not that IP brings traffic. Another thing is much more important: they retain the audience. This is the opinion of Jon Radoff, CEO of Disruptor Beam studio, which developed Game of Thrones: Ascent, Star Trek: Timelines and the recent The Walking Dead: March to War.

Atari has agreed to cooperate with the crowdfunding platform Fig. As part of the partnership, they will develop and release two titles: a remake of the Atari gaming classics and a new intellectual product.

Arenas designed for virtual reality games will appear in the cinema halls of the Karo network. The first 7 VR halls will be launched in Moscow and the regions within six months.

Today, September 19, a new version of the iOS mobile operating system is officially released. What changes from the point of view of ASO are waiting for game developers in it, – the Russian-Finnish company AppFollow, specializing in optimizing programs in app stores, told us.

The British game studio Bossa Studios has invited former Valve screenwriter Chet Faliszek, known for his work on the stories Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead.

Company Mail.Ru The Group will invest €800 thousand in the Russian-Finnish mobile game developer studio Panzerdog and will receive a share in the company.

The Finnish company Rovio has signed a multi-year contract with the Liverpool football club Everton to apply the symbols of the Angry Birds franchise to the team uniform.

Gearbox Software will stop developing updates for the Battleborn team shooter after the release of the latest Fall Update.

The Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XV by Square Enix has sold 6.5 million copies in the 10 months since the release of the title at the end of November last year.

A round table on the use of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in games will be held at the White Nights conference in Moscow. We offer to come up with questions for its participants. The authors of the two best questions will receive a free premium ticket to the conference.

The multiplayer survival shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds on Steam simultaneously gathered 1.3 million people in the game on September 16, surpassing the similar record of MOBA Dota 2.

The developers of Bring Me Cakes, one of the first games on Defold, told why they work on it, as well as what to expect from the feature on iOS if you release a paid game.

The role-playing game Divinity: Original Sin 2 by Larian studio became the 4th most popular game on Steam in the first weekend after the release, which took place on September 14. At its peak, almost 86 thousand people are playing the project at the same time.

We briefly dwell on what great materials and important news have been published on our pages over the past seven days.

The creator of the Gears of War series, Cliff Bleszinski, believes that all is not lost for his online team shooter LawBreakers. He admitted mistakes and is ready to make efforts to make the project succeed after a failed start.