On February 27, the analytical company SuperData published a traditional monthly report on sales of games distributed in numbers. It says that users spent $8.9 billion on games in the first month of 2018.

The independent Association of European game publishers Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) has started keeping official records of digital copies of video games sold along with retail. France became the pilot territory for the implementation of the project.

The Khronos Group company, with the support of Valve, LunarG and The Brenwill Workshop, has released the MoltenVK game development platform. It fully supports the Vulkan graphical API on iOS and macOS operating systems.

Wanted: an art manager at Playrix, a motion designer at G5 Games and a novice level designer at Nevosoft.

The creators of the mobile indie platformer Alto’s Adventure named the reason why the game was released on Android using the frituplay model, and the iOS version is sold for $ 5. According to creative director Ryan Cash, Android smartphones are much more affordable than Apple devices, and their users often do not have money for games.

In the German Wooga again layoffs. The company has decided to focus on the development of games with a plot and, in this regard, is conducting a complete restructuring.

The H1Z1 multiplayer shooter has left 91% of players, and the number of online gamers has fallen from a peak of 150 thousand to 9 thousand. This is reported by the rating service GitHyp.

On February 26, Rusbase released a voluminous interview with Alexey Grigorkin, one of the authors of the Sandbox Coloring game, whose total downloads reached 30 million, and estimated monthly income is $ 2 million. App2Top.ru publishes a short retelling of the material.

The analytical company SuperData presented a forecast of the development of the virtual and augmented reality industry in the next 3 years. According to him, by 2021, VR games will generate $3.3 billion. Revenues of virtual reality titles for 2017 amounted to $306 million.

The creator of the St. Petersburg office of Nival, Peter Prokhorenko, now works at Alternativa Games (formerly AlternativaPlatform). He became the product director of a company known for the MMO action movie “Tanks Online”.

Google has released the final version of the ARCore devkit, designed for the development of augmented reality applications.

The executive producer of the new role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance (KCD) Martin Klima (Martin Klíma) told why he does not consider his work to be part of the echelon of AAA titles. According to Klima, it’s all about its complexity.

Maxim Samorukov, who heads the development at the Moscow studio Crazy Panda, officially announced the launch of his own DataMagic service. The novelty is positioned as a more affordable competitor to App Annie and SensorTower.

On February 26, the rating aggregator Metacritic published two charts – a list of the best “large” and a list of the best “medium” game publishers. The tops were formed based on the press estimates of the companies’ games for 2017.

GTX Corp is threatening to sue a Russian developer. He is accused of violating a patent for one of the main mechanics of freeplay – the creation and sale of in-game currency. The plaintiff is ready to solve the problem in a pre-trial manner for money. To what extent this is a common situation and what a lawyer advises in such cases to do, – I understood App2Top.ru .

What is the advantage of an advertising mediator compared to an advertising network, – says Kirill Makarov from Mobio.

Japanese mobile publisher Colopl reported a drop in net profit in the first fiscal quarter of 2018 (lasted from October to December 2017). The main reason for the decline was the payment of royalties to Disney Corporation after the release of the puzzle Disney Tsum Tsum Land.

2018 has started well for the gaming business in the United States of America. In January, sales of the video game market increased by 59% and reached $ 1.1 billion. These are the best figures since January 2011, according to the analytical company NPD.

The profitability of the esports industry is rapidly increasing. In 2017, the turnover of the international virtual competition market was estimated at $655 million. Compared to the previous year, the increase was 33%, according to a report by Newzoo.