The famous Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (Shigeru Miyamoto) appealed to colleagues in the gaming industry with a request not to be so greedy for gamers’ money. According to him, Nintendo partially avoids free—play monetization models precisely for this reason – the company does not want to ruin players. Miyamoto stated this on August 22 during a speech at the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference held in Yokohama.

A selection of ten books that tell interesting stories about video games, development and the gaming industry in general.

The former technical director of the Microsoft devices and entertainment division, Jay Allard, believes that hard work in the gaming industry forces many developers to quit creating titles and go to other industries.

The Chinese corporation Tencent is the largest gaming investor in the world. From April 2017 to the end of March this year, Tencent invested in gaming companies 40% of all funds that developers and startups of the video game industry managed to attract in 12 months.

The California investment fund Makers Fund has invested in a number of companies in the gaming industry. Among them are developer studios, publishers, esports services and other firms.

Wanted: Maya is a 3D animator at Banzai Games, an augmented reality programmer at Azur Games and the head of traffic procurement at Kraft.

Wanted: an art manager at Playrix, a motion designer at G5 Games and a novice level designer at Nevosoft.

On February 26, Rusbase released a voluminous interview with Alexey Grigorkin, one of the authors of the Sandbox Coloring game, whose total downloads reached 30 million, and estimated monthly income is $ 2 million. App2Top.ru publishes a short retelling of the material.

The Project Horseshoe research group presented a report on the ethical side of video game monetization. The researchers have prepared a set of recommendations, following which developers will be able to make money on users without tricks and deception.

“Let the gaming industry solve the problem of loot boxes by itself. State regulation is a slippery slope,” said Sean Quinlan, a member of the House of Representatives of the Hawaii State Legislature.

The implementation of game content has tripled the value of the gaming industry, according to a study by Digital River.

The total turnover of Swedish game studios has grown by 1000% over the past 7 years and reached €1.4 billion by the end of 2016. The industry has remained profitable for 8 years in a row.

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

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.

The highest paid game dev profession is a manager. And the average salary for the industry is $1100. Such preliminary results were given by a survey of a leading analyst Wargaming.net and SteamSpy author Sergey Galenkin.

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