In 2018, the turnover of the general gaming market of Australia and New Zealand has grown significantly. It amounted to $3.1 billion. The Australian segment has achieved particular success here.

One of the most popular esports disciplines, League of Legends, will receive a mobile branch. Riot Games is working on a new title together with Tencent.

nWay will give third-party developers access to its multiplayer platform, on the basis of which ChronoBlade and Power Rangers: Legacy Wars were created. With its help, you can develop real-time multiplayer titles.

For the first time since its release, the mobile blockbuster Lineage 2: Revolution has lost to another title Netmarble in terms of revenue share. He managed to beat the game Blade & Soul: Revolution.

THQ Nordic has another acquisition. The new asset of the publisher was the German studio Piranha Bytes, the creator of Gothic, Risen and ELEX.

Razer will finally block the oxygen of the Ouya microconsole. The company announced that on June 25, support for online services for Ouya will cease and the store of the same name will close.

Store GOG.COM He is working on a free GOG GALAXY 2.0 client. It will allow you to bring together game libraries and friends from Steam, Origin, Xbox and other platforms.

A free app from Valve has been released in the App Store and Google Play. It is called Steam Chat and, of course, has a link to Steam.

Wanted: UI artist at Matryoshka Games, leading 2D artist at RJ Games and Unity programmer at MyTona.

Activision decided to support the trend for mobile “royal battles”. In its Call of Duty Mobile, created jointly with Tencent, there will be a battle royale mode.

The analyst of The NPD Group, Mat Piscatella, spoke about the earnings of the American gaming market for April. The console segment crashes again. Revenue from video games, on the contrary, is growing.

In April, players spent $8.86 billion on digital versions of console, desktop and mobile games. In annual terms, this amount increased by 7%.

Every summer session of the White Nights Gaming business Conference is preceded by Finnish Game Day. This year is no exception. On June 18, representatives of the Finnish Game Dev will meet with colleagues from other countries at the Finnish Consulate in St. Petersburg to discuss the current situation of the industry.

God of War, an exclusive from Sony, has surpassed the mark of 10 million copies sold. The game was released in April last year.

A new player has appeared on the market of hyper-casual projects. Gismart, a company that previously specialized in music applications, is launching a gaming direction. It will create simple and fast-to-produce games.

Belgium again does not let down games with loot boxes. Next up are mobile titles from Nintendo.

Console World of Warships: Legends went into early access a month ago. During this time, more than 1 million owners of PS4 and Xbox One have registered in it.

Along with one scandal due to the “mega-sale” in the Epic Games Store, another occurred. The store’s users complained that the company was blocking their accounts for buying too many games.

Israeli developer Playtika, known for its social casinos, has created its first internal division. It was named Games Lab.