Loot boxes in EA games are not an element of gambling, but “quite ethical and fun surprise mechanics”. That’s what EA’s vice President for Legal and government Affairs, Kerry Hopkins, calls it.

The creator of the flight simulator Oleg Tishchenko received a year in prison in the United States. But this is de jure. Tishchenko was de facto deported back to Russia.

On June 19, the White Nights business conference started in St. Petersburg. There is a video broadcast from it.

Wanted: producer at Playrix, head of analytics at Playkot and level artist at Targem Games.

The CEO of Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, again spoke on the topic of cloud gaming services. As it turned out, he does not share the opinion of the head of Ubisoft about the indispensable growth of the gaming audience thanks to streaming.

Android and iOS players spent $100 million in the Fallout Shelter simulator from Bethesda. The game has reached this figure in four years since its release on mobile devices.

Google has launched an original feature collection in the Russian Play Store. It hosts the games of the participants of the White Nights business conference.

Niantic has acquired London-based startup Sensible Object. His team specializes in creating AR titles and linking them to physical objects.

The head of the mobile publishing house HeroCraft tells how his department interacts with developers.

When creating a new game, developers often use already used developments, in particular, assets. Recently, developers on Twitter shared the most creative examples of asset reuse.

MY.GAMES, a new gaming brand Mail.Ru Group, makes a generous offer to the creators of AAA shooters for consoles. The company will choose the most promising project, finance its development and give its authors a game studio.

The authors of World of Tanks announced the launch of a new structure. It’s called Wargaming Nexus. In her area of priorities — assistance in the development of mobile games on Unreal Engine 4.

The producers of The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon series have been promoted to deputy CEO of Nintendo. One of them is the producer of the series The Legend of Zelda Eiji Aonuma (Eiji Aonuma).

In May, the social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte launched a competition for the best mobile HTML5 games with a prize fund of 1.4 million rubles – Games Cup 2019. Within the framework of the competition , its own nomination appeared and App2Top.ru .

The indie developer Rezoner has released software for creating voxel graphics. A tool called SpriteStack allows you to create 3D objects for use, including in games.

Experience in testing competitiveness and demand with App2Top.ru the director of the Belarusian studio Indigo Bunting — Evgeny Trufanov shared.

In mid-May, the Archero game appeared in mobile stores. In a month, the development of the Singapore studio Habby not only collected more than 10 million installations, but also earned more than eight million dollars, according to the analytical service DataMagic.

Six months after the release of Brawl Stars from Supercell, its installations reached 100 million. During the same time, the game earned $275 million in the App Store and Google Play.

What the mobile games industry looks like today from the point of view of macroeconomics, the analytical company App Annie revealed in its latest report. We offer a short version in Russian.