Activision Blizzard’s revenues from October to December 2016 amounted to $2.01 billion. In total, the gaming giant raised $6.61 billion last year.

In mid–January, the open beta of the mobile MOBA from Fast Forward Studio – Planet of Heroes was released. We talked with the head of the studio Ivan Fedyanin about where he was looking for people for the team, why he decided to make a MOBA and how the story campaign is embedded in it.

At the Prague White Nights session, which starts next Monday, 6waves Publishing Director Stephen Lee will speak. He is going to talk about working in the Asian market. For the best questions to Stephen, we give two premium tickets to the conference.

The organizers of White Nights have introduced a new type of ticket – Demo Pass, which allows you to get to the conference exclusively for lectures for € 20.

Search giant Google and MMO game developer NetEase are in talks to launch Google Play on Android devices in China.

Japanese Sega has followed the path of Nintendo in terms of transferring popular franchises to the mobile platform. The new game of the Total War: King’s Return series is a familiar product for mobile: a strategy in the spirit of Game of War.

Word games remain a popular genre on social and mobile platforms. Brazilian Cupcake Entertainment, specializing in similar projects, received investments of $ 1 million.

Sony has published the tops of the most downloaded and sold games on PlayStation consoles for January. ARK: Survivor’s Pack from Studio Wildcard was in the greatest demand last month.

German developer InnoGames reported earnings for the past year. The company’s revenues for the 12 months of 2016 amounted to €130 million.

The story of several indie developers who have returned to work in large companies,” Gamasutra shared. We have prepared a version of the material in Russian. We share.

The age of paying players differs little from project to project, but the gender differentiation of the paying audience strongly depends on the type of game.

30% of game downloads in 2016 were for projects in the action genre. Similar games also hold users much better than puzzles.

MZ, Top Games, Nintendo and Wargaming, among others, promoted their projects at the final game for the title of champion of the US National Football League. Each of the companies could pay more than $5 million for airtime alone.

The author of Payday became the publisher and the largest investor of Psychonauts 2, Timothy Schafer’s new game.

Nintendo’s first mobile release in 2017 proved to be very successful. The company’s new game, Fire Emblem Heroes, earned $2.9 million on its first day of sales. This is more than Clash Royale received on the day of release.

Comprehensive promotion with the help of motivated traffic increases the visibility of the application in the store, which allows you to get additional organics. An example is the game “Bablomet”. Getting to the top of the category, to the first place of a search query and a query in Trending Searches allowed simultaneously attracting 10,000 organic users with a CPI of 14 rubles.

Google has started issuing an initial degree in Android development – an associate degree. You can take an exam for it on the Internet.

Startup 1APP is developing OneOS, a cloud–based operating system that runs any application, including games, without installation.

One of the guests of White Nights Prague 2017 will be Philipp Karstaedt from GREE. He will talk about the conflicts that arise between publishers and developers, as well as how they can be avoided. For the best questions to Philip, we give two premium tickets to the conference.