American mobile game developer Zynga ended 2017 with positive financial indicators. The Words With Friends and CRS franchises helped the company to become a plus. This is stated in the company’s financial report for the 4th quarter and the whole of 2017.

Today, War Robots is among the Top 60 most profitable mobile games in the USA. But when it was launched, the team ran into problems that could drown the game. What kind of difficulties were they and how they were solved,” said Igor Klyukin, executive director of Pixonic, which developed the game.

The independent British studio Failbetter Games reported financial difficulties, due to which they had to cut 4 employees. This is a significant loss for the staff of a small company: according to the Failbetter website, only 12 people are employed in the studio.

What are advertising networks, what are their pros and cons, as well as what is important to remember when working with them, – says Ilya Seregin, FeedWise project manager at Mobio.

Mobile game publisher Gameloft has closed an office in New Orleans and laid off about 40 employees. The company has not yet announced the reasons for the liquidation of the division.

Google Corporation plans to create a gaming service on cloud servers. And in the future, it can present its own game console, Engadget reports.

Rockstar Studio’s hit has been on the market for almost 5 years and is still selling great. Total sales of GTA V action exceeded 90 million copies, and in 2017 15 million copies of the game were sold.

Independent developer Jake Birkett analyzed how the revenues of the game for the first week and for the first year of sales on Steam correlate. He interviewed 30 developers and gave their answers in the form of a graph.

On February 6, in an interview with Gamasutra, the author of the Gunpoint stealth platformer Tom Francis admitted that it took him almost 4 years to develop his second game, the space indie bagel Heat Signature. He does not plan to delay the work like this anymore. But on Steam, the approximate circulation of Heat Signature for the first four months amounted to 100 thousand copies.

The American publisher of anime and manga comics Viz Media has opened a gaming direction. The first released title of the company will be the action adventure The World Next Door from the independent studio Rose City Games.

Almost every significant game studio uses the services of third-party teams in working on AAA titles. This is reported by The Outline, which has studied the gaming outsourcing development market and talked with representatives of several companies.

The German authorities saw the mechanics of loot boxes as a threat to young people. The reason for the concern of officials was the research of the University of Hamburg. Scientists have come to the conclusion that video games are increasingly converging with gambling, Welt reports.

On February 6, the Odnoklassniki social network announced the release of the OK Games application. It allows you to run web games from the platform library on the desktop. Including projects made using Flash technology, which is not supported by default by Chrome, Mozilla and Opera browsers.

Hong Kong-based game company Animoca Brands has acquired the Finnish studio TribeFlame. The total amount of the transaction may amount to €350 thousand. Tribeflame is known for the Benji Bananas series of mobile arcades, whose total downloads have exceeded the 107 million mark.

On January 25, independent developer Matt Thorson released a new Celeste platformer project. In 2 weeks, the Nintendo Switch version of the game has overtaken its PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions in sales.

On February 6, the authors of the RAWG gaming service announced that they had raised €1 million in January of this year. It is already known what the money will be used for.

Wanted: a leading UI engineer at Pixonic, head of the traffic buying department at Playrix, HR assistant at Nevosoft, as well as a leading level designer at SargosGames.

There have been layoffs at the Capcom Vancouver studio. The company confirmed the reduction of 30% of the staff, explaining this by restructuring the business.

On February 6, the Korean gaming giant Netmarble published a report for the fourth quarter of 2017. It ended very well for the company. She earned $565 million. The commercial success of Lineage 2: Revolution played a big role in this. It accounted for 39% of the company’s revenue.