Despite the absence of an official denial, Konami employees continue to assure the gaming community that their company is not going to leave the console games market.

Yesterday, September 21, during the UNITE session in Boston, it became known about the launch of the Unity Technologies information resource.

From April 1 to July 31, 2.5 billion downloads of games created on Unity were made, – the authors of the engine said in the first issue of their own report “By the numbers“.

A third of gaming industry workers do not receive overtime pay. This is reported in a study conducted by IGDA.

Following our colleagues with PocketGamer.biz we have discovered a new trend: Clash of Clans is no longer an unambiguous box office leader. For example, in Russia, the box office of another strategy – Game of War – turned out to be larger in August.

The analytical company Newzoo claims that by 2018 the volume of the esports market will reach $ 765 million.

An American company with Russian roots – Sperasoft – took on the post of senior technical director of the former director of release management of Rockstar Games.

On Friday, the French gaming resource Gameblog shared that Konami will stop developing console games and focus almost entirely on mobile. It was reported that the only console franchise of the Japanese company will be the Pro Evolution Soccer series. Konami representatives denied the rumors.

The largest American electronic store has announced the second generation of the Fire TV set-top box, as well as its gaming version, complete with a gamepad.

Zynga has bought the Rising Tide Games game studio, co-founded by Maytal Olsha. In the past, she served as the head of the social slots department at Zynga.

The games of the Swedish studio Toca Boca, which specializes in mobile applications for children, have been downloaded a total of 100 million times. In honor of this event, the company shared an infographic.

Chuck Doud, the head of the music department of the American branch of Sony Computer Entertainment, advises developers to think about the soundtrack at the earliest stages of development.

Yesterday, September 14, Halfbrick, which developed projects such as Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, was left without game designers. The company’s management does not intend to look for new ones.

The company Electronic Arts is going to buy the studio CD Projekt RED, the creators of the game series “The Witcher”. Information about this was received by the editorial office of the DSOGaming resource from a person who introduced himself as an employee of the Polish studio.

Nintendo has appointed a new CEO and president of the company. They will be 65-year-old Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima). This is reported by the Kotaku resource with reference to the Nintendo press release.

At the end of August, it became known that in connection with the sanctions, Apple refused to pay money from software sales to those Russian developers whose accounts were issued in Sberbank. The other day the story was continued.

Artist Juan Hernandez (Juan Hernandez) told in an interview with the 80 level resource about the techniques he uses when creating 3D models. We publish a retelling.

We continue to publish materials in our “Who’s Who” series (recall, instead of posting game announcements from young and not only studios, we invite them to tell about themselves). This time we talked to the studio “For each other”, engaged in the development of games for children.

Having ended the first half of the year with a loss of €16.1 million, the French company Gameloft has launched a cost-cutting program. As part of the program, the company disbanded seven internal studios.