An update to Guns of Boom was released on April 17. In particular, for its promotion, the Game Insight developer company signed a contract with the star of the movie “Machete Kills” Danny Trejo.

In the next 4 years, the turnover from the sale of loot boxes and drawings of game skins will almost double and reach $ 50 billion. This is stated in the report of the analytical company Juniper Research.

After it became known that Roskomnadzor blocked 16 million IP addresses in pursuit of Telegram, information was received that games such as War Thunder, Fortnite and PUBG faced problems.

Wanted: Unity developer at Pixonic, 3D artist at MyTona and project manager at Alternativa Games.

Why you should not stop at CryEngine when choosing a tool for game development — especially for App2Top.ru Sergey Korolev, General Director of Magisterion Studio, told us.

The head of the Boss Key Productions studio, Cliff Bleszinski, appealed to Epic Games with a request not to poach his employees to his staff. The game designer tweeted about it.

Mike Verdu, Senior Vice President of Electronic Arts mobile publishing house, announced his departure from the company. According to Verdoux, the reason for his resignation was constant business trips and an unstable work schedule. He will leave his post at the beginning of May this year.

Two residents of Washington State sued four operators of social online casinos. The defendants were Huuuge Games, DoubleDown Interactive, High 5 Games and Playtika.

A report by Paweł Gajda from Carbon Studio. The speaker spoke about how important it is to find and adjust the perfect balance between immersion and comfort when traveling in VR games.

The massive blocking by Roskomnadzor of 2 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google affected many gaming projects. Both domestic and Western developments were under attack.

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) of the South Korean government has launched an investigation into Google. The reason was complaints that an American corporation is forcing local mobile developers to sell their games only through Google Play.

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications (Roskomnadzor) has closed 2 million IP addresses. 800 thousand of them use Amazon hosting. The rest are accounted for by Google. The ban is related to Telegram’s attempt to use the capabilities of Amazon and Google to bypass its own blocking in Russia, which began on the part of Internet operators on April 16. The actions of Roskomnadzor have already affected Russian gaming companies.

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has launched a game project development center “Igro Tek” in the capital of Belarus. Now he is looking for specialists familiar with CryEngine. One of the startup’s managers is Alla Vasilyeva. She was responsible for development in the Minsk office of Wargaming for more than ten years.

Report by Jan Schneidereit from Mothership Marketing GmbH. The speaker spoke about how to build a successful media strategy focused on European countries.

Patrick Soderlund, Executive vice President of Electronic Arts, said that the company “cannot afford” the mistakes they made with the loot box system in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. This concerns the future of the MMO thriller Anthem and other projects of the company.

For this March, the authors of Homescapes and Fishdom have raised more money than the Finnish forge of Supercell hits, famous for Clash of Clans and Clash Royale.

Sega has announced the release of a smaller version of the 16-bit Mega Drive Mini console. The retro console was presented at the Sega Fes 2018 festival, held on April 14 in Tokyo.

Last year, the average American iPhone user’s spending on mobile games increased by 13%. According to the analytical company Sensor Tower, if in 2016 they spent $ 32, then in 2017 this figure was already $36.

The number of players in the Rainbow Six: Siege multiplayer tactical shooter has exceeded 30 million people. This is reported by the publisher of the game, Ubisoft.