Is it true that the gaming industry gives a podium only to selected and successful developers? This issue was raised on the last day of Reboot Develop as part of an informal session with Rami Izmail (Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing).

The author of Hearthstone and Overwatch may be preparing his second mobile game. The company is looking for a programmer who will create development tools for a gaming mobile.

Game designer Cliff Bleszinski believes that high-budget AAA titles are leading the gaming industry to a dead end.

Ilkka Paananen, the founder of Supercell, explained why he chose a “cellular” management model for his company in his report at the Roviocon 2017 conference in Helsinki.

Mobile games of the Israeli developer Ilyon Dynamics have been downloaded over 100 million times.

Russian gamers spent 2% more on MMO for PC in March 2017 than a month earlier.

According to the annual report of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), in 2016, digital copies accounted for 74% of the total number of video games sold in America.

Ubisoft has announced the opening of offices in Bordeaux, France, and Berlin, the capital of Germany.

The RSA film company announced the creation of a VR division that will create VR and AR content.

The Finnish gaming industry has slowed down after several years of rapid development.

According to insider information, the Shanghai branch of Crytek is closed due to lack of money to pay for the rental of premises.

On April 9, the Spb Gamedev Meet-up was held at the headquarters of the VKontakte social network. The issuing editor App2Top.ru with a story about how it was.

It was reported that the owner of Riot Games and Supercell announced the worldwide release of the digital game distribution service WeGame.

The head of the Double Fine studio, Tim Schafer, advised novice indie developers not to place high hopes on the first day of sales of their games.

Briefly about the most important materials of last week in our traditional digest.

The head of the streaming division of the publisher Devolver Digital, JM Specht, explained how a game project can benefit from streams and letsplays.

Sony has presented the chart of the most downloaded games in the American PlayStation Store for March of this year. The top was headed by Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands from Ubisoft.

App Annie has published lists of the most popular and profitable mobile games in March 2017. Dragon Nest and Ballz were among the most successful projects of the month.

The monthly active audience of the Facebook Messenger messaging service has reached 1.2 billion,” said the head of the project, David Marcus.