On November 22, Kingdom Rush Vengeance was released. This is the fourth part of the tower defense series by the Uruguayan studio Ironhide (the total earnings of all games in the series only on mobile is $ 10 million). In connection with the launch of the project, we interviewed the team.

Sensor Tower has published the October top of the most profitable and downloadable AR games on iOS. App2Top found out how much the titles listed in it earn.

Industry veterans have major blunders. Even if they get together and make a dream game. A beautiful story at the development stage Underworld Ascendant turned into a failure of the game and a wave of dissatisfied reviews.

Ancient Domains of Mystery is a live classic of the roguelike genre. 26 years have passed since the beginning of its development, but even now its creator Thomas Biskup continues to develop the project. He told the Gamasutra portal the story of this game. We also give the most interesting theses.

A report by Tony Pearce from Reality Clash. The speaker told how the company managed to add geolocation services and an in-game exchange of equipment items to one game, as well as how they managed to sell more than 350,000 units of in-game cryptocurrency in less than 4 weeks after the release.

October came out hot. $1.53 billion was spent on digital versions of console games. This is 80% more than a year earlier.

After Microsoft announced that all prices in the Microsoft Store will be displayed in dollars, Rospotrebnadzor made a statement. In it, the Ministry noted in which cases such a scenario is possible.

Capcom threw 2,800 people to create a remake of Resident Evil. This became known during the broadcast of the Japanese broadcasting company NHK, writes Alex Aniel, author of a book about the franchise.

The eighteenth White Nights will take place in the German capital. The conference is scheduled for February 12-13.

At the last White Nights, Game Insight gathered a whole track to discuss the esports market.

In October, sales of hardware, games and accessories in the United States are showing record levels, according to NPD analysts. This was influenced by the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII and Red Dead Redemption 2.

Wanted: game designer in Playgendary, QA-lead in Alawar, project manager in Krasnodar Plarium, analyst at Pixonic, Ruby developer at Social Quantum and lead UI designer at Whalekit.

A year ago, in November 2017, Nekki released the mobile fighting game Shadow Fight 3. Since then, the project has reached the mark of 50 million installations. Read about the retention rate of the game and what percentage of those paying by country in our publication.

Microsoft has subjected the Russian office to restructuring. Employees were offered to transfer from Russia to other countries.

A report by Enric Pedro from Lab Cave Games. The speaker spoke about how the strongest development teams, such as IGG and Socialpoint, work with ASO to attract organic traffic and increase profits.

Foundation SUPER.COM I am ready to invest in Unreal Engine game developers. The total investment amount is $50 million.

Yesterday, November 19, the announcement of the launch of a new Finnish game studio — Redhill Games. Most of the founders held senior positions in Wargaming back in September.

In early November, Microsoft announced the purchase of inXile Entertainment. Founder and president Brian Fargo spoke about how the deal will affect the company in an interview with Eurogamer. We provide a brief version of the material.

We note the mobile games that showed the fastest growth in downloads over the past week.