Former BioWare employee Casey Hudson will return to the company and head the main office in Edmonton after the resignation of his colleague Aaron Flynn (Aaron Flinn).

Japanese game developer and publisher Koei Tecmo will open a Koei Tecmo and Dining restaurant in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district in August this year, Kotaku reports.

After the vacation break last week, we continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert, founder of VALUES VALUE.

The Chinese government compared online games with poison and demanded that they take measures to prevent the spread of gambling addiction among minors of the PRC, Forbes reports.

A report by Christian Corsano from IO Interactive. The speaker shared his experience of creating a Hitman game using Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform.

Epic Games has launched a seasonal sale of game assets created by users of the Unreal Engine.

Popular science publishing house CRC Press and a social platform for game developers GameDev.net released a free digital brochure Practices of Game Design & Indie Game Marketing.

The Doodle Jump mobile platformer will become a gambling game with money bets and will appear in the gambling halls of Las Vegas casinos.

Mail.Ru The Group published an infographic in which it told who leaves money in mobile games.

Blizzard Entertainment has revealed the mechanics of dropping valuable game items in a number of its MMO projects. Getting standard prizes increases the chance of knocking out rare rewards in the future.

From March to June, revenue from MMO projects for desktops continues to grow continuously in Russia. At the same time, the dynamics jumps. In June, the turnover increased by only 1%.

MMO survival simulator PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has overtaken GTA V in terms of the number of gamers who are simultaneously in the game on Steam.

A report by David Reichelt from Color Switch Productions, Inc. The speaker shared the story of the creation of the Color Switch game and talked about how to make a game that will not get lost among other projects.

The Scottish studio Outplay Entertainment reports that its game in the genre of “castle defense” Castle Creeps TD has overcome the mark of 5 million installations in just six months.

What is the difference between slots in the App Store and Google Play from real slot machines and how best to monetize users hooked on mobile casinos, – said Akim Denisov, co-owner of Orc Work Games.

The studio-developer of the mobile hit Subway Surfers, SYBO Games has hired game designer Amy Kalson, who worked on The Sims and Bejeweled game series.

The American company Atari has demonstrated the appearance of a new product — the Ataribox game console, announced at E3 this year.

The authors of the browser-based role-playing MMO game Runescape from the Jagex studio have announced the release of two versions of their work on mobile platforms in the near future.

The mobile online golf Golf Clash of the British studio Playdemic earned $1.1 million in one day on July 4 of this year.