The experience of Electronic Arts in working with indie developers can be called successful so far. The experimental narrative game A Way Out by Josef Fares has been sold more than two million times.

The story of Destiny 2 sounds more and more interesting. Bungie announces that its project will be completely removed from the service Battle.net . On PC, the game will appear exclusively on Steam.

It sounds crazy, but the StarCraft franchise seems to be less and less interested in Activision Blizzard. This can be judged by the latest financial report from the publisher.

Since April last year, the Entertainment Software Rating Commission (ESRB) has been labeling games with in-game purchases. This marking was received by 18% of all physical games that passed through the ESRB during this time.

In new games for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, the chance of items falling out of loot boxes will always be indicated. Console games that violate this rule will simply not be published.

Dota 2 had two problems with matchmaking: it did not give players an incentive to play in a team and could not balance teams by roles. A recent update has solved both.

The turnover of the mobile games market in Japan in 2018 rose to $13.3 billion. But its growth rate is decreasing.

Valve stopped juggling release dates on Steam. Now game developers will not be able to postpone the release of the game in the store without Valve’s approval.

Wanted: Publishing manager at Voodoo, technical support specialist at MyTona, 3D environment artist at Pixonic.

An esports park will be built in Shanghai, including a stadium for tournaments. NetEase will invest $725 million dollars in the project.

By the end of this year, Psyonix studio will change the monetization in Rocket League. Loot boxes with a random reward will be removed from the game.

The creators of Unity have introduced a new platform — Unity Live Help. Within its framework, industry experts will be able to train game developers.

The number of copies sold of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI has reached 5.5 million. It is significantly ahead of the sales rate of other games in the series.

Alexander Bezobrazov, Marketing Director of Social Quantum, reveals how to understand how promising a particular genre is, using the example of culinary time managers.

Sony has found another way to avoid high US tariffs on Chinese electronics. The method is obvious: the Japanese giant is thinking about transferring production from China to another country.

In July, Supercell updated Clash Royale. The game has a new monetization tool — battle pass. Thanks to him, the weekly revenue of the game jumped from $ 4.8 million to $ 13.2 million.

The reason for mass shootings is again being sought in video games. This time, US President Donald Trump saw a connection between the games and two terrorist acts in the country. After that, the shares of the largest game publishers sank sharply.

In the situation with the harassment of the authors of Ooblets, the creators of Epic Games Store did not stand aside. They defended the Glumberland studio and at the same time noted an “alarming trend”.

Sim He, head of the publisher department at Mintegral, talks about how Voodoo monetizes its hyper-casual with the help of effective mobile advertising. App2Top.ru gives an excerpt from the Pocket Gamer material.