About the main thing for November 1: CryptoKitties developers raised $15 million; Zynga released a clone of Homescapes, which is visually a copy of Candy Crush; the Switch library has gained a base of 1300 projects in a year and a half.

Zynga has published a financial report for the 3rd quarter of 2018. It follows from it that the company managed to achieve the best mobile performance in its entire history.

The example of Ubisoft shows why some publishers are so interested in developing DLC and implementing microtransactions. Downloadable content, in-game items, subscriptions and advertising accounted for 35% of Ubisoft’s revenue in the past six months.

A report by Vadim Charugin from Pixonic. The speaker told the story of the creation of events, through which the company demonstrates new mechanics, as well as how Pixonic puts forward hypotheses and how it tests them during events, gradually introducing quests and lotteries.

The path to the heart of the mass consumer for modern VR technologies is still closed. This was stated by the creator of the Oculus Rift Palmer Lucky (Palmer Luckey) in his blog.

Ubisoft was pleased with the experience of working with Google’s Project Stream cloud. Now the French publisher is thinking about cooperation with other cloud services.

Nintendo’s Japanese colossus can open champagne. The company is doing great not only in the main console market. Nintendo’s fourth mobile game is the company’s second most successful smartphone release.

During the “conversation by the fireplace” with Yulia Lebedeva (Nevosoft) Jaakko Harlas from Supercell spoke about the difficulties the company faced in the process of growth and shared details of the investment strategy.

The cowboy action movie Red Dead Redemption 2 hit the jackpot. The game earned $725 million. This is the second most successful launch in the history of the entertainment industry.

Investments in AR/VR games have come to naught. The sad situation of virtual and augmented reality games by the 4th quarter of the year is demonstrated by the report of Digi-Capital.

At the end of September , the Russian Owlcat Games has released the Pathfinder: Kingmaker role-playing game. We talked with the studio head Oleg Shpilchevsky about how its development was going and why it appeared raw at the start, according to the players.

Report by Alexander Zabezhinsky from Playrix. The session was dedicated to the Township project. Alexander spoke about why the development team was changing the game. What changes turned out to be fateful. And what points should those who develop games today pay attention to.

There is nothing superfluous in the Mega Man 11 platformer, according to video blogger Mark Brown. We publish a translation of his review on a novelty from Capcom.

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

We are starting to publish videos and presentations of reports from White Nights Moscow 2018. The first video is a lecture by Maxim Samorukov from DataMagic. The speaker spoke about how the featuring placement correlates with the country’s population and income level, and also analyzed the role of the feature in the success strategy of modern mobile games.

The developer of Fortnite and Unreal Engine received a transfer of $1.2 billion. Seven companies led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) invested in Epic Games.

Lucid Games level designer Tom Pugh talks about effective techniques when creating game levels.

In early October, the Lithuanian studio Nordcurrent released a fritupley hidden “Murder in the Alps”. We asked the developers about how they worked on the project.

We often hear about the burnout of individual developers or entire creative teams that have gone through a crunch. The Red Dead Redemption 2 team from Rockstar and the bankrupt Telltale studio faced rework.