It seems that guild mechanics are now the lot of not only midcore projects. The opportunity to join a guild is increasingly being added to casual titles.

Electronic Arts has transferred part of its IP to its Swiss division, where it has its headquarters. Thanks to this, the company plans to save $1.7 billion on tax deductions.

A new, 76th version of the Google Chrome browser has been released. One of the unpleasant, but long-awaited innovations turned out to be blocking Flash elements by default.

Last Friday, United Russia deputy Anton Gorelkin introduced a controversial bill. He proposed to identify the most important IT products in Russia and limit the participation of foreign individuals or companies in them to 20%. I was looking into the bill and whether it could affect the video game industry App2Top.ru .

A new version of the Unity engine — 2019 has become available.2. It includes more than 170 improvements.

Developers in Crimea have lost paid accounts and private repositories on GitHub. Moreover, repositories are blocked even when temporarily visiting this region.

The number of PS4 sold exceeded 100 million. She managed to reach this figure in a record five years and seven months for the console market. Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad compares how things are with other consoles.

According to the results of the second quarter of 2019, the top 25 highest-grossing mobile games in the world include five projects in the “battle royale” genre. How much they earn and how they behave, — we tell in the material based on the latest Sensor Tower study.

Despite the fact that most mobile games require a constant Internet connection and registration to work, console players are not ready for a similar practice yet. This is evidenced by what happened to Bethesda and the DOOM trilogy reissued by it.

After almost four years of working at Pixonic, Nikita Guk is leaving the company. In the studio, known for the mobile blockbuster War Robots, Nikita was responsible for two directions. He was Director of Strategy and Director of PR.

American publisher Tilting Point has invested $30 million in Mino studio. Her game is Cat Game The Cats Collector! — just released in the App Store and Google Play after softlonch.

Unity Technologies investors are ready to buy $525 million worth of securities from its shareholders. Due to the tender offer, the company’s valuation instantly doubled to $6 billion.

Zombie shooter World War Z was the reason for the record revenue growth of Focus Home Interactive in the first fiscal quarter. The game from Saber Interactive, partially based in Russia, is responsible for 42% of the publisher’s revenue for the period.

The social network Facebook has decided on major changes regarding the HTML5 gaming platform Instant Games. The platform will disappear from the Messenger messaging app. Now it is completely moving to the native application of Facebook itself.

Another valuable selection of contacts for developers. Dmitry Filatov provided a database of 322 vendors who are ready to help in game development.

Adult gamers too often encounter aggressive behavior of other participants in multiplayer games. This problem affected 74% of the players.

Dragalia Lost crossed the $100 million mark in revenue. This is Nintendo’s second most profitable mobile title, according to Sensor Tower.

The gaming business becomes for Mail.Ru Group is increasingly important. By the end of April-May, the Russian IT giant earned 7.5 billion rubles (about $ 117 million) from the games. This is 38% of the company’s total revenue for the quarter.

French Bigben Interactive is expanding again. This time she agreed to buy the studio Spiders — the authors of The Technomancer and Bound by Flame.