The former marketing manager of Motion Twin, Steve Filby, told in detail how one of the main indie releases of this summer, metroidvania Dead Cells, was progressing.

The Vivox in-game communication service, which is used by the developers of League of Legends, Fortnite, Paladins and Rainbow Six Siege, has become free for small projects.

VKontakte has introduced an important update for its Direct Games mobile gaming platform. From September 5, the games of the platform can send alerts to their users through the functionality of the mobile application of the social network.

Nintendo Switch has once again demonstrated that it is an excellent platform for indie. Motion Twin said that for one sold copy of Dead Sells on PlayStation 4, there are four sold versions on the Nintendo console.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 6.

The Celestial Empire is restless again. Chinese gaming colossus Tencent has announced a new registration and identification system in Honor of Kings (aka Arena of War), the highest-grossing mobile game in the world. The company will register players by their real name, and then check their age and identity against the police database.

The CEO of Unity believes that the company’s engine is popular today not only among mobile developers. He stated that half of the game projects for all platforms are developed on Unity.

South Korean Pearl Abyss acquires a European asset. The developer of one of the brightest MMORPGs of recent times buys the Icelandic CCP Games. The latter is famous for the space MMO blockbuster Eve Online.

Global market analytics company Nielsen has acquired SuperData Research. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 5.

On October 16-17, the White Nights gaming conference will be held in Moscow. It will host an exhibition of developers. The organizers are waiting for applications for participation from teams whose projects are in beta and above.

Ex-employees of BioWare Austin Dallas Dickinson (Dallas Dickinson) and Gabe Amantangelo (Game Amantangelo) told how Electronic Arts forced them to leave the famous studio and open their own company for the sake of reviving their own project.

One of the most popular search queries in August in the USA on iOS is Tomb of the Mask from Playgendary.

The revenue of Nintendo’s highest-grossing mobile game continues to grow. This summer, the role-playing tactics of Fire Emblem Heroes earned $63 million. Compared to the same period last year, revenue increased by 34%, according to Sensor Tower.

Game Recommendation Service RAWG.io launched by Kanobu founder Haji Mahtiyev, the ICO was postponed from September of this year to March next year. There are two reasons: the failure of the presale for $ 5 million and the unfavorable situation in the ICO market.

Wanted: technical artist at Cubic Games, game designer at Kefir and head of art direction at Frostgate studio.

British screenwriter and game designer Alexis Kennedy wrote an article on Gamasutra about how not to tire a gamer with information about the game world. Kennedy is known as the author of the browser quest Fallen London and the “bagel” Sunless Sea.

Today, on September 4, Belka Games studio launched a charity event in the Watchmaker game. All the money earned inside the event will be used to support programs United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). We talked to Yuri Krasilnikov, the company’s business development director, about the details of the event and why the company is taking part in it.

It is considered that the main source of inspiration for the Monument Valley series is paintings by Mauritz Escher. In fact, there are much more sources. Behind each level of the franchise’s games is a piece of art, a photo or even a music video.