Wanted: lighting designer at Social Quantum, traffic manager at Kefir, and art department manager at Plarium.

Developer Supercell will host the first Clash of Clans World Championship. Esports players will be able to compete for a prize fund of $ 1 million this fall.

Another gaming giant is preparing to enter the Auto Chess clone market. Tencent has announced a mobile Chess Rush. Its peculiarity is the presence of fast 10—minute matches.

More than 2.5 million copies of Shovel Knight have been sold worldwide. This was proudly announced by the developers of Yacht Club Games in honor of the fifth anniversary of the game.

Epic Games has taken care of Kickstarter backers who are unhappy that the games they funded are leaving Steam and becoming exclusives of the Epic Games Store. All the refands to the players will be carried out by the latter.

Founded by Wargaming veterans, Redhill Games studio has closed its first round of funding. She raised $11.4 million to create her debut game.

How much eCPM differs from region to region and how big is the eCPM difference between different types of advertising,” the Soomla analytical service said in its latest report.

Novice level designers will always need the advice of a more experienced colleague. The author of the book “Architectural Approach to Level Design” Chris Totten shared ten useful tips on Twitter at once.

Indie developers are massively urging players not to buy keys to games in the G2A store. According to igrodelov, even piracy is the best alternative.

Lion Studios division — AppLovin — announced the second annual Ultimate Game Changers competition. The studio will select four mobile indie games and distribute a prize pool of $300 thousand among them.

The company Indievent was deprived of the license to release games in China. The discontent of the Chinese authorities could be caused by the indie horror Devotion released by the publisher.

The Japanese mobile publisher gumi liquidated the European office. Gumi Europe employed 32 employees who complained about their management before and after the studio closed.

The ban on consoles in China was lifted just five years ago. To date, the annual turnover of the console market has exceeded $760 million. And, according to analysts, in 2023, the Chinese console segment will cost about $ 1.5 billion.

Age of Empires has a significant user base even after two decades. More than a million people play in the projects of the series every month.

The Finnish developer Remedy has returned the IP Alan Wake. Prior to that, the exclusive rights to publish franchise projects belonged to Microsoft.

Hyper-casual games have appeared on the market not so long ago, but they are rapidly bypassing related casual games in many ways. The current metrics of these genres were compared by GameAnalytics specialist Ivan Bravo. And he also assessed how the indicators of hyper-casual correlate with the successes of more established mobile genres.

The Brazilian industry has grown noticeably in four years. The number of gaming companies in the country has more than doubled.

After launching their own game, developers often worry about the question: what kind of retention is considered good, how much time users usually spend in similar projects, what kind of ARPPU competitors have? The new GameAnalytics report, which was first available at White Nights in St. Petersburg, removes such questions.

The information and analytical company Nielsen has signed a two-year cooperation with Riot Games. Nielsen’s work will allow advertisers to evaluate the effectiveness of investments in esports using the example of League of Legends.