On August 16, a new three-in-a-row was released in China. It’s called Zootopia Dream Diaries. This is an interpretation of the Scapes series of the domestic Playrix. In the novelty, the user also plays match3 and equips the territory.

The Battle for Azeroth addon for the role-playing MMO game World of Warcraft has beaten the sales figures of the first day of all previous additions to the popular online project of Blizzard Entertainment.

Epic Games has started encouraging players to take care of the security of their accounts. As a reward for enabling two-factor authentication, the company gives gamers an exclusive emotion-the Boogie Down dance.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for August 23.

What becomes the main obstacle for most independent developers? The creator of the indie platformer Spelunky, Derek Yu, tried to answer this question on his Twitter. In his opinion, if a developer wants to succeed in his business, he needs to learn not to abandon projects halfway, but to consistently bring them to the final.

A report by Chris Keeling from Wargaming.Net . The speaker spoke about how successful companies innovate in a crowded market, what innovations can be introduced into your projects, why innovations can be destructive.

The analytical firm NPD Group has prepared a review of the gaming market of the United States of America in July 2018. According to the company, the highest-grossing game last month was the Switch-exclusive Octopath Traveler from Square Enix.

49% owned by the Russian Post, the bank became interested in the gaming audience. The organization plans to attract 100,000 new customers within this niche by the end of 2019. To do this, she took up investments in domestic esports.

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.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for August 22.

The head of the Blizzard Entertainment Community Development Department, Saralyn Smith, spoke about the role of the gaming community in the company’s work and ways of cooperation between game creators and their fans. Smith spoke at the Devcom conference taking place these days in Cologne.

The App Annie platform has published an index of the most downloaded and highest-grossing games in July. With an eye on him and the DataMagic service, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales.

Wanted: a leading designer at Pixonic, a buyer of Facebook traffic at Cubic Games and a machine learning specialist at Banzai Games.

Facebook intends to cancel a 30% commission on revenue from in-game purchases in games of the Instant Games service on the Android platform. This is reported

A report by Guy Ulmer from Plarium. The speaker spoke about how exactly Plarium uses Google, Unity and other available tools for game development and testing.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for August 21.

Learning is an important part of any video game. It shows the players the basic mechanics and helps to immerse themselves in the process. But developing a convenient and useful tutorial can be a difficult task. The Game Career Guide resource has collected six recommendations that will help avoid common mistakes.

Report by Mikhail Rafiyenko from Zombie Dynamics. Based on his experience in creating a Garage shooter, the speaker told how to go from a zero-budget project to an exclusive release on the Nintendo Switch.

Gamasutra analyzed the anatomy of the genre of metroidvaniy — two-dimensional action adventure, the foundations of which were laid 30 years ago by Metroid from Nintendo and Castlevania from Konami. These games combined the familiar gameplay of platformers with a vast world that had to be explored during the passage.