The next White Nights conference will be held in Moscow on October 16-17. One of her round tables is devoted to the legal aspects of game development and publishing. We propose to come up with a question for the table. For the best, we give you a premium ticket to the conference.

The authors of Fortnite have launched a crossover with the yet—to-be-released Gearbox – Borderlands 3 game. A new location has appeared in the “royal battle” straight from the famous series of loot shooters.

The other day, unauthorized DataMagic users got a new opportunity. From now on, they can see how much monthly downloads and revenue mobile apps have approximately.

Another big purchase from Playtika. An Israeli company has acquired the studio Seriously. The latter is known from the Best Fiends series.

Philip Gladkov, who has been the head of Pixonic since 2011, is leaving the company. Officially, the departure will take place in early 2020. Gladkov is now handing over the case to his successor.

Artificial intelligence has been integrated into the RetroArch emulator of classic games. And now the program supports instant translation of Japanese text into English.

Bungie Studio refused to consider Activision a tyrant. Leaving the publisher was only a consequence of creative differences, said Bungie Communications director David Dague.

Not everyone is ready to accept the end of Flash in 2020. A group of enthusiasts is working on an open source Flash emulator. It was named Ruffle.

The authors of Star Citizen continue to raise money for their cosmosim. On August 24, they hosted a dinner for backers who had invested at least $1,000 in the project. Nuance: the guests paid $275 for admission.

In September last year, Odnoklassniki (OK) held a competition for the best HTML5 project – Instant Games Cup (now, by the way, the second one is coming). Among its winners were the games Memoria and “WORLDS: Evolution”. We tell you how the fate of the projects turned out.

The Finnish forge of Supercell hits has officially launched a new project in softlonch today. It’s called Rush Wars. The game is available for download in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Finalists of the largest esports tournaments win record amounts this year. Both the Fortnite World Cup champion and the winners of The International earned more Wimbledon stars.

Ice-Pick Lodge acknowledged that the remake of “Pestilence. Utopias” turned out to be a commercially unsuccessful project.

Based in Belarus and the UK, Gismart has successfully entered the hyper-casual market. Her first such game in a week since its release reached the mark of 5 million installations.

Facebook has made it easier to work with interactive advertising with the help of the Playable Preview tool. It will help to make sure that the advertising of the game meets the specifications of the site.

One of the first Epic Games Store exclusives will be available on Steam by the end of the year. This is a Hades bagel from the authors of Transistor.

Homescapes publisher has become a strategic partner and investor of Vizor Games. The latter is based in Belarus and is known for such games as “Zombie Farm” and “Klondike”.

California-based mobile publisher Scopely will increase its staff in Barcelona and Dublin. The company will expand its offices in these cities after its The Walking Dead: Road to Survival raised $100 million in investments.

A new selection of books for developers has been released. This time it is useful for game writers.