On the fifth of March, the mobile release of the role-playing MMO Perfect World took place in China. The game took a little more than three weeks to earn $100 million on iOS. Thanks to this, it overtook Honor of Kings in monthly iOS revenue and became Tencent’s highest-grossing game for March.

On March 27, CD Projekt published financial results for the past year, and also shared a number of internal figures, ranging from the number of employees and ending with the distribution of sales of The Witcher 3 across platforms.

Survival Subnautica was planned as a small project. But in five years its scale has grown. Not least — thanks to feedback. At the presentation of GDC 2019, the indie studio Unknown Worlds Entertainment told how the community helped to improve the game at the earliest stages. 

On June 19-20, the White Nights conference will be held in St. Petersburg. As usual, an exhibition of developers will be held within the framework of the event. This time, in addition to the free stand, its participants also receive a 15% discount on the ticket.

Mike Rose, the head of No More Robots, told about where to look for an audience for developers of a new indie game.

Wanted: Unity-developer at PlayVictory, head of Game design at Game Insight and game designer at Gaijin Entertainment.

In recent years, the dynamics of game sales has changed significantly. Indie developer Jason Rohrer came to this conclusion by comparing the data on release sales of his projects.

A representative of the Russian office of Electronic Arts in the comments for App2Top.ru He told how the company will continue to work in the local market after the disbandment of the team in Moscow.

One of the largest publishers will return to Steam. Bethesda refused to distribute its PC titles exclusively through the launcher Bethesda.net . Yesterday, she announced on Twitter that DOOM: Eternal, Rage 2, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and the VR game Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot will be added to Steam as they are released.

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has taken on large-scale cuts. 350 employees will leave the company. Layoffs will affect marketing departments, publications and not only.

At GDC 2019, Nintendo unveiled a list of the best indie bestsellers for Switch of all time.

Last year, the genre of hyper-casual games experienced its heyday. Omer Kaplan, co-founder of ironSource, told about what supported the growth of hyper-casual and whether it will continue.

After the sale of several studios, Kabam re-acquires assets. The publisher and developer bought the midcore mobile studio Riposte Games & Co.

As part of a series of announcements, Apple talked about its new gaming service. It’s called Arcade. Exclusives will be released on it, access to which will be open by subscription.

More than 64 million active users use Xbox Live every month, said Bill Schiefelbein, the program’s general manager. He presented key figures on the use of the service at GDC 2019.

Right now, this is the best launch for 2019 on Steam.

Sales of the indie game Dead Cells exceeded 1 million copies. This became known at GDC 2019 from game designer Sebastian Benard (Sébastien Bénard).

Next summer, Nintendo will offer gamers two new versions of Switch. Sources familiar with the company’s plans told The Wall Street Journal about this.

The day before yesterday, Google introduced the cloud gaming platform Stadia to the world. A number of media outlets were able to test the future novelty and find out if it has flaws and what they are. Their reviews App2Top collected in this material.