In the tank multiplayer blockbuster Wargaming, there will be story PvE campaigns that can be carried out alone. One of the tasks of the update is to reach a new audience.

Valve will stop uncontrollably issuing developers any number of game keys. The service explained this by fighting the sale of keys on third-party sites bypassing Steam.

Canadian mobile game developer Hibernum Creations has laid off most of the studio’s staff — over 100 employees.

The Russian company 1C Company and the Dutch game publishing house Soedesco in partnership will start publishing indie titles on physical media.

The author of Resident Evil 2 and Bayonetta, Hideki Kamiya, called the director of the Nier game series Yoko Taro “the savior of the PlatinumGames studio.”

The domestic survival Last Day on Earth: Survival from the Volgograd studio Kefir took the sixth place in downloads in the world on the Google Play platform last month.

There was a story that Tencent invested in the South Korean developer Bluehole Studio, who created the main blockbuster of this summer – the online shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). The developer refutes the story.

Jan Miczaika, former chief operating officer of the German mobile casual developer studio Wooga, will support startups in the venture company Holtzbrinck Ventures.

Sergey Babaev, Managing Partner, announced his new position DTF.ru and former vice president of strategy at Nekki. He took the place of vice-president of the Cyprus team Cubic Games.

Why indie developers should stop lowering the price tags for their games and take advantage of the experience of the creator of The Witness, – Sergey Galenkin, the author of Steam Spy and the main publisher of Epic Games in Eastern Europe, told on the pages of his English–language blog. App2Top.ru publishes a translation of the material with the kind permission of the author.

The creators of League of Legends lost the court to ex-footballer Edgar Davids (Edgar Davids) and now have to pay him compensation for using the image of an athlete without permission.

Blizzard President Michael Morhaime announced his intention to attract new personnel by recruiting women and representatives of social minorities as part of the program “increasing diversity and engagement”.

In the US, parents filed a second lawsuit against mobile developers in a week. Residents of California have accused Disney and Unity of illegally collecting personal data of children in mobile games.

On August 1, the release of the domestic Redeemer browser from Sobaka Studio took place. How long the game was developed and how the team chose the publisher, – App2Top.ru I asked the head of the studio Dmitry Kachkov.

The first game funded on the Fig crowdfunding platform — Kingdoms and Castles — brought profit to investors in the amount of their investments in the first two weeks of sales.

An 82-year-old Japanese woman has developed and released a mobile game called Hinadan for the App Store.

Beijing-based mobile game developer ZPlay has bought a 70% stake in Canadian indie publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million.

Ubisoft has announced the launch of a new studio in the Swedish capital. The Stockholm office was headed by Patrick Bach, who resigned as CEO of EA DICE at the end of last year.

The Japanese company Mixi reported an increase in sales and profit for the 2nd quarter of this year. The main source of financial income remains the mobile puzzle Monster Strike, released in 2013.