Ubisoft has decided to switch its main franchise to a service support model — the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will receive updates every week.

The search for money for the development and promotion of the game is one of the most important industrial topics. It will be discussed at Finnish Game Day by representatives of Small Giant Games, Aii Corporation, Epic Games, Mail.ru Games Ventures, Futureplay and Yoozoo Games. We suggest coming up with questions for them. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the White Nights Conference in St. Petersburg.

We are looking into what happened to the shares of Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sony, Square Enix, Microsoft and Electronic Arts after their presentations at E3.

The Change The Game Design Challenge, a competition for the development of mobile game concepts, which Google Play held among schoolgirls, has ended. The games of the finalists show that this audience highly appreciates a deep plot, a serious message and the opportunity to learn something new in games. 

Over the past year, Plarium has released (including in sotflonch) six projects. Five of them are largely based on popular box office hits. The list of sources of inspiration includes titles from companies such as Playrix, Kefir and Peak Games. This approach allowed the company to seriously increase its earnings.

German mobile developer Wooga ended 2017 with a profit, and the company’s revenues have increased by 40% over the past 12 months. The main source of revenue was the mobile “hidden object” June’s Journey, released in April last year.

The American publisher 2K Games is looking for partners to work with and a studio to acquire. 2K is also interested in new ideas that can diversify the gaming experience. The president of the company, David Ismailer, told MCV about this.

Google Play and the analytical company Newzoo have published the results of a study on how American teenage girls see their career prospects in the field of mobile game development. According to researchers, many girls who could potentially engage in game design do not see a place for themselves in the industry because of stereotypes around games.

Valve continues to improve the social capabilities of the Steam platform. The company announced an updated chat system with support for videos, GIFs, tweets and other media content.

On June 12, at 19.00, Nintendo started its show as part of E3. The performance turned out to be far from as large-scale as that of other platforms. In addition, the number of significant announcements was kept to a minimum. However, it became clear that the company is now betting heavily on multiplayer and co-op play.

Wanted: head of the three-in-a-row development department at Belka Games, ASO manager at Pixonic and data engineer at NIKITA ONLINE.

On June 12, at four in the morning Moscow time, Sony held its presentation of new products as part of E3. The company finally showed the gameplay of two major exclusives for PlayStation 4 — The Last of Us 2 and Death Standing. What else was shown — read in our material.

Valve has announced cooperation with the Chinese company Perfect World in the framework of creating a version of the Steam store specifically for Chinese users.

On June 11, at 23.00 Moscow time, Ubisoft launched a presentation at E3. She did without a large number of announcements. At the same time, it cannot be called disappointing. The French did not skimp on CG trailers, product details and gameplay demonstrations of upcoming products. About the most interesting — in our material.

As part of the presentation at E3, Microsoft announced the doubling of the number of internal studios. She bought four previously independent companies, and also launched another subsidiary in Santa Monica.

On June 10, at 23.00 Moscow time, Microsoft’s presentation at the E3 gaming exhibition began. The company demonstrated 50 projects. Fifteen of them were announced for the first time. About the main ones — in our material.

On June 9, at 21.00 Moscow time, the first large-scale presentation of E3 2018 took place. It was conducted by Electronic Arts. In our article there is a short story about what one of the main players in the gaming market showed.

Slovak startup Lubos has made the Armory version 0.4 3D game engine publicly available. Lubos is known as the author of the popular software package for three-dimensional modeling Blender.

On June 7, the world release of the new game Nekki — football manager 11×11 New Season took place. The high-profile launch of the project in Russia took place a little earlier. About the new game, the unique three-way cooperation with Apple and MTS, as well as its first results App2Top.ru asked Nikita Korzhavin, Business Development Director of Nekki.