In the first half of the year, sales of Sony’s Games and Network Services division increased by 131% to $6.9 billion compared to the same period last year.

Game Dev-edition 80.lv drew attention to Bolt — a toolkit for visual programming of games on the Unity engine.

Wanted: game designer and community manager at Pixonic, game programmer at Nevosoft, editor at Rocket Jump, lead artist at Social Quantum and mobile product manager at 1C.

Swedish mobile developer MAG Interactive acquired the regional studio FEO Media for $9.7 million with the help of funds provided by the Microcap fund of Swedbank Robur.

Nintendo has presented statistics on the use of game modes of the Nintendo Switch hybrid console by gamers.

Report by Igor Klyukin from Pixonic. The speaker shared his experience on how to avoid frequent mistakes and what to pay attention to when working on a project.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recognized competitive esports as a type of sports activity that “can provide a platform for interaction with the Olympic movement.”

Sales of the three-dimensional platformer Super Mario Odyssey for Nintendo Switch exceeded 2 million copies in 3 days after the release of the game on October 27, according to the presentation of the Nintendo company for the financial half of the year.

The authors of the mobile hit Pokémon GO studio Niantic are dissatisfied with the game Draconius Go by the Ukrainian developer Elyland because of the similarity with their project, the business publication Forbes reports. It is reported that Niantic has notified Elyland of copyright infringement.

The Icelandic studio CCP has curtailed work on projects in virtual reality and does not plan to develop new similar titles.

Sega reported on the total game sales of the Persona and Megami Tensei role-playing series, and also disclosed the full sales numbers of other game franchises in the annual report.

Report by Igor Petrov from MyTona. The speaker showed examples of how to use in-game events to make the game more successful in general.

53 million people play video games on Xbox One, Windows 10 and mobile apps every month, the company said in a report on the results of the 1st quarter of the current fiscal year.

Sales of Nintendo products from April to October of this year increased by 175% compared to the same period last year. The growth driver was the Nintendo Switch console.

If your game has a store, you should definitely find out what a consumer basket is. How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

MMO games have been added to the piggy bank Mail.Ru Group 4.3 billion rubles in just 3 months. From August to September. This is 82.6% more than a year earlier.

A report by Kirill Shabordin from Social Quantum. The speaker spoke about what awaits a company that will embark on the path of developing its own engine.

Hi-Rez Studios held a “soft launch” of the mobile MOBA Paladins Strike in Australia, based on the “heroic” PvP shooter Paladins for PC and consoles.

Softlonch Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp goes better than Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem. The social game reached the top of the top of the Australian App Store faster.