The authors of Pillars of Eternity published The Road To Eternity movie on YouTube, in which they told how the studio came to develop a retro project on Unity and what problems it encountered during its creation.

Melsoft founder Alexey Meleshkevich told Pavel Ryakkonen in an interview about the history of the studio, its best projects and internal processes.

How users of Russia and China relate to game abbreviations, mat and small print in localizations, the company All Correct Games told.

Can the price of an app affect its visibility and position in the App Store? – ASOdesk and Kindermatica received the answer to this question as part of a joint study.

In the center of the Finnish city of Oulu, Fingersoft has launched the Oulu Game Campus, a giant incubator that will collect everything necessary for the development of gaming teams and their creation of projects.

How to draw an attacking character in pixel art or how to add emotion to it, – artist Sandy Gordon told in infographics.

Live testing of applications that do not require downloading a distribution kit and installation to work has started on Android.

Laralyn McWilliams, who participated in the development of Gears of War 4, Full Spectrum Warrior and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, shared tips on game development in her blog on Gamasutra. We share the Russian version of the material.

A round table on gaming economics and analytics will be held at the upcoming White Nights conference in Prague. We suggest coming up with questions for him. The authors of the two best questions will receive a free premium ticket to the conference.

The revenue of the Hamburg studio Playa Games last year amounted to $ 8 million. This is 40% more than it was in 2015.

The former president of Rockstar North Leslie Benzies (Leslie Benzies), after being fired from the developer studio Grand Theft Auto, launched several businesses at once.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, the total earnings of mobile games were 70% more than in the fourth quarter of 2015.

At an extraordinary meeting, shareholders of the Megafon operator approved the purchase of 15.2% of the Internet giant’s share capital Mail.Ru Group for $740 million.

Nevosoft has updated the program of the February White Nights session, which will be held in the Czech capital. The developers of Steam, Vikings, Angry Birds and Candy Crush will also make presentations.

Sergey Kopov, who headed the publishing division of HeroCraft, announced his departure from the company.

In the first month of sales, the Lineage 2: Revolution mobile game earned $176.6 million from 5 million users in its native market.

At the end of December, the hardcore mobile strategy Navy Power: Warships from ONI Studio was released on the App Store as part of the softlonch. We talked with the producer of the project, Pyotr Prokhorenko, about the history of game development and about the features of the genre.

During the week of global promotion on Google Play, the game from the Russian developer Pixonic received a million downloads.

What is important to remember when developing quests, — Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.