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.

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.

Where to start when you undertake the creation of the game economy of a free-play game, – Konstantin Sakhnov, director of the game department of Rocket Jump studio, told on our pages.

Unity Technologies has released the final version of the game engine — Unity 2017.1, which opens the next version system after Unity 5.

The creators of the Unity game engine have released Unity Connect Messenger, an application for messaging between developers of Unity projects.

Removing an extra element on the field is the most popular booster in three-in-a-row games. It is found in almost every similar game,” Playliner reports in its latest research on Match-3.

The Canadian studio Digital Extremes has published data on the chances of losing all game trophies in the free-play action-MMO Warframe.

Psyonix studio employees said that every day they ask Sony to allow owners of the PlayStation version of the Rocket League auto-action to play with users of other platforms.

BioWare is conducting a large-scale recruitment of employees to the Dragon Age role-playing game development team, said Mark Laidlaw, the company’s creative director.

The head of the FlowPlay gaming direction, Craig Robinson, shared his experience of transferring a Flash game project to a modern platform.

Version 2.0.7 of the GameMaker Studio game editor has been released, according to the application developer YoYo Games.

Esoteric Software has introduced version 3.6 of the editor for creating two-dimensional Spine animation.

Steam Direct, a service for self—publishing games in the Valve store, began its work on June 13.

Artist and game designer Pedro Medeiros gives instructions on creating spectacular 2D animation and beautiful sprite graphics.

Square Enix has moved the development of the Final Fantasy VII remake inside the company under the leadership of Naoki Hamaguchi, who previously created the Mobius Final Fantasy mobile role-playing game.

The Japanese company Square Enix announced the urgent recruitment of employees to the Final Fantasy VII Remake development team.

Bungie plans to abandon the random selection of matches in the Destiny 2 MMO shooter and give players the opportunity to choose a company for themselves to pass game tests.

Epic Games company in the blog of the Unreal Engine game engine announced the release of its new version – 4.16. One of the key features of the update was support for Nintendo Switch.

The GitHub hosting and development service has opened the GitHub Marketplace, a store of support programs for developers.