The creators of the “code-free” Buildbox game engine will provide subscribers with assets worth $ 100 thousand.

In 2016, Unity games were installed 16 billion times on mobile devices. In comparison with 2015, the indicator increased by 31%.

Twitch has said it will sell the games. Users will be able to purchase digital versions of projects directly on the game broadcast pages. We interviewed industry experts about how this will affect the market.

As part of the Mobio Talks program, Alexey Pisarevsky, the founder of the Mobio agency, interviewed Maxim Donskikh, the president of Game Insight. We publish a transcript of the material.

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76% of employees of game studios are forced to work beyond the established norm. And a third of them have no one paying for recycling.

Analysts predict explosive revenue growth of virtual reality projects in the near future.

Sony has sold 915 thousand Playstation VR kits since the start of sales in October last year and has come close to fulfilling its own plan of 1 million devices sold within six months.

Swedish indie developer Coffee Stain Studio has launched its own publishing house.

The Swedish company King has stopped operating its South Korean branch.

Paradox Development Studio has reported 500,000 copies of the Hearts of Iron IV strategy game sold since its release in June 2016. The chief director of Paradox Interactive, Frederick Wester, stressed that the enduring success of the studio’s games confirms the company’s philosophy.

The Finnish company Rovio has informed about the likely reduction of at least 35 jobs in its animation division.

Ilkka Paananen, CEO of the Finnish mobile game developer Supercell, confirmed the company’s intentions to acquire new game studios as part of the growth planned for 2017.

On February 15, an update for the Unreal Engine (UE) 4 game engine was released. The main innovations of the version in UE 4.15 were improved image rendering on mobile devices and support for the new Nintendo Switch console. In addition, the developers of UE announced in the new version improved texture streaming, thanks to which games will load less CPU and RAM, load faster and also get rid of artifacts at low resolutions.

On February 16, the results of the first European Google Play Indie Games Contest were summed up in London. A jury of experts from the mobile games industry awarded the victory to the Reigns project of the British studio Nerial.

Arma developers don’t want to monetize skins in the game. They stimulate the purchase of additional content and DLC with push buttons and watermarks.

In 2016, the authors of Angry Birds changed the approach to closing projects. Previously, the company tried to close controversial projects as early as possible. Today, Rovio decides on the fate of games at later stages of development.

The Humble Bundle platform announced the creation of an initiative to publish and finance games. The new division of the company will release games, both on PC and on consoles and mobile devices.

A series of innovations in the Steam game store has improved the visibility of programs, payment conversion and sales. Valve shared specific figures.