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Industry April 20, 2018

The Italian gaming market almost reached €1.5 billion in 2017

The annual turnover of the video game industry in Italy amounted to €1.43 billion. This is reported by the Association of Italian Video Game Developers (AESVI) with reference to data from the analytical company GSD and the mobile analytics service App Annie.

Industry April 20, 2018

Supercell has deployed Brawl Stars to the whole of Scandinavia

The developer of Clash Royale may be preparing a worldwide release of his latest game — Brawl Stars. Since March, the game has been deployed on iOS in Denmark, before that it was also launched in Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Industry April 20, 2018

Newzoo: Last quarter, Twitch was 5 times ahead of YouTube Gaming in stream views

The analytical company Newzoo compared the performance of the largest streaming platforms Twitch and YouTube Gaming in the 1st quarter of 2018. Twitch leads by a margin in the main parameters, but in some indicators YouTube Gaming is catching up and even overtaking its competitor.

Industry April 19, 2018

Nordcurrent announced the joining of the Odessa studio Blam!

The team of the Lithuanian developer and publisher Nordcurrent is replenished. The company, famous for such box office hits as Cooking Fever and Sniper Arena, acquired the Odessa outsourcer Blam! Games Studios.

Industry April 19, 2018

The publishing daughter of Wargaming has taken up cooperation with a Serbian developer of casual premium games

Wargaming Alliance has announced the start of work with Mad Head Games, a Serbian studio that specializes in hidden object games. Judging by the first published art, the companies are working together on a new MOBA.

Industry April 19, 2018

Rumors: DICE are working on a “Battle Royale” for Battlefield V

The creators of the Battlefield shooter series are testing the “battle royale” mode for the last part of Battlefield V. This was told to the Venture Beat edition by DICE studio employees on condition of anonymity.

Industry April 19, 2018

Tropico publishers told about the best financial indicators for 12 years

German gaming publisher Kalypso Media has reported record revenues in fiscal year 2017. According to the company’s representatives, last year was the best in the 12-year history of Kalypso.

Industry April 18, 2018

The authors of Life Is Strange plan to enter the stock market

The French team Dontnod Entertainment, known for the games Remember Me and Life Is Strange, announced the registration of documents for the launch of the IPO. The studio’s management plans to raise money to develop cooperation with publishers and launch more ambitious games into production.

Industry April 18, 2018

Opinion: launching a raw game in early access can benefit its quality

The head of Bossa Studios, Henrique Olifiers, believes that the industry is using early access incorrectly. Developers are releasing almost finished games, while Oliphers wants to see more projects in early access at the initial stage of readiness.

Industry April 18, 2018

Devolver Co-founder: working in AAA studios breaks people and cripples destinies

Mike Wilson, a veteran of the gaming industry, believes that the corporate culture of large gaming companies is inhumane and harms their employees. Therefore, developers need their own trade union or a collective agreement with the employer.

Industry April 18, 2018

The main breakthroughs of the mobile market: March 2018

The other day, App Annie published its index for March. With an eye on him, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales.

Industry April 18, 2018

Game Insight attracted actor Danny Trejo to promote Guns of Boom

An update to Guns of Boom was released on April 17. In particular, for its promotion, the Game Insight developer company signed a contract with the star of the movie “Machete Kills” Danny Trejo.

Industry April 18, 2018

Research: the market of loot boxes will grow to $50 billion by 2022

In the next 4 years, the turnover from the sale of loot boxes and drawings of game skins will almost double and reach $ 50 billion. This is stated in the report of the analytical company Juniper Research.

Industry April 17, 2018

Roskomnadzor has closed 16 million IP addresses. War Thunder and Fortnite reported on the problems

After it became known that Roskomnadzor blocked 16 million IP addresses in pursuit of Telegram, information was received that games such as War Thunder, Fortnite and PUBG faced problems.

Industry April 17, 2018

Cliff Blesinski asked Epic Games “not to steal his employees.” Not everyone liked it (UPDATED)

The head of the Boss Key Productions studio, Cliff Bleszinski, appealed to Epic Games with a request not to poach his employees to his staff. The game designer tweeted about it.

Industry April 17, 2018

Senior Vice President of EA Mobile quit due to frequent trips

Mike Verdu, Senior Vice President of Electronic Arts mobile publishing house, announced his departure from the company. According to Verdoux, the reason for his resignation was constant business trips and an unstable work schedule. He will leave his post at the beginning of May this year.

Industry April 17, 2018

Playtika and three other social casinos have been sued in the USA

Two residents of Washington State sued four operators of social online casinos. The defendants were Huuuge Games, DoubleDown Interactive, High 5 Games and Playtika.

Industry April 17, 2018

Which games have suffered due to IP address blocking?

The massive blocking by Roskomnadzor of 2 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google affected many gaming projects. Both domestic and Western developments were under attack.

Industry April 17, 2018

The Antimonopoly Authority of Korea suspected Google of harassing local developers

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) of the South Korean government has launched an investigation into Google. The reason was complaints that an American corporation is forcing local mobile developers to sell their games only through Google Play.

Industry April 17, 2018

Roskomnadzor blocked access to 2 million Amazon and Google IP addresses. Gaming companies are already under attack

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications (Roskomnadzor) has closed 2 million IP addresses. 800 thousand of them use Amazon hosting. The rest are accounted for by Google. The ban is related to Telegram’s attempt to use the capabilities of Amazon and Google to bypass its own blocking in Russia, which began on the part of Internet operators on April 16. The actions of Roskomnadzor have already affected Russian gaming companies.