As part of the February White Nights Berlin 2019, several round tables will be held. One of them is dedicated to the latest trends in the monetization of mobile games. We invite you to ask the participants questions. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

The quarter ended on December 31, 2018.

How much mobile role-playing games earn in the USA, China and Japan, and which subgenres are the most successful, GameRefinery experts tell. App2Top offers a brief squeeze of their mobile RPG market research.

Vivox will continue to operate independently as a subsidiary of Unity.

The publisher will remove the loot boxes from the Belgian version of FIFA.

We are talking about a minority package.

Wanted: applied mathematician at Banzai Games, community director at LightMap and lead designer three-in-a-row at Playrix.

Aggregator Metacritic has compiled a rating of the best “large” and “medium” video game publishers.* The places in the top were distributed based on the press ratings of the 2018 games.

After the release of the Atomic Heart gameplay video, a shooter from Mundfish, information appeared that in reality the game looks worse than on video, and the gameplay is a montage. To find out if this is true, the author of the Telegram channel “Game Dev that we deserve” talked with 10 former and current employees of Mundfish.

The sudden transfer of the game to the Epic Games Store did not suit everyone.

In 2018, investments in gaming companies amounted to $5.7 billion. This is twice the figure for 2017, according to experts from Digi-Capital.

Another victory of the Epic Games bizdev. Blockbuster Metro Exodus from the Ukrainian 4A Games in the version for personal computers will be distributed only in the “epic” store. There will be no previously planned release on Steam.

The “apple” company has gaming ambitions. She plans to launch her own platform where games will be distributed by subscription. Moreover, she is currently negotiating to independently publish games.

The revenue of the augmented reality (XR) market is expected to grow to $11.5 billion in 2019. This forecast, based on revenue statistics from VR, AR and MR devices, was made in SuperData.

Polish game dev will receive €23.2 million from the state, Radio Poland reports. The money will come from the National Center for Research and Development.

On February 12-13, the next White Nights will be held in the German capital. There will be a public interview with the head of the mobile division of Wargaming. We suggest coming up with a few questions for him. We will award two authors of the best selections with a premium ticket.

On January 25, Origin launched a closed demo of Anthem, a game service from BioWare. Electronic Arts gave access to the title to a limited number of users for three days. But Anthem just doesn’t let them play with themselves.

With it, you can create a small 2D game with simple physics.

The company will limit the time and duration of the gaming session for all underage users. The innovation will affect 15 leading NetEase projects and will operate exclusively in China.