The last numbered part of Battlefield in the United States was not included in the top ten best-selling games of the year. Before that, over the past ten years, only Battlefield: Hardline and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 were not included in the top.

Despite the Christmas season, digital sales in December 2018 showed both quarterly and annual declines. 

The author of Unreal Engine continues to acquire service companies specializing in the development of solutions for game developers. Yesterday it became known that the Epic Games “family” included 3Lateral and Agog Labs.

The story of the licensing freeze has finally come to a successful end for Tencent c NetEase. For the first time since last March, Chinese giants have received approval for the release of projects in China.

A public interview with Alexander Willink, CEO of Voodoo in Berlin, will take place at White Nights Berlin 2019. We suggest asking him questions. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

This is 18% more than a year earlier.

In the Middle Kingdom, 93 more games were allowed to be published. This is the third selection of approved projects since December. However, there are still no projects of the two leading gaming companies in the country “on the lists”.

Last year, a lot of games in the “battle royale” genre were released on Steam. However, most were unable to keep an active audience after the launch.

This is $19 million more than the game developers received in the same period from VKontakte.

A few days ago, a rumor appeared on the network that Fallout 76 may turn out to be a shareware game. Bethesda from its official Twitter account stated that this is not true.

It is unknown how many studio developers have lost their positions.

Wanted: 3D artist in Mail.Ru Group, PHP programmer at Nevosoft and content game designer at MyTona.

Voodoo reported that the number of downloads of its games exceeded 1.5 billion. Half of them were generated in the last four months.

There have been reports that physical copies of the game are being removed from the shelves.

The first games from United Label will be released this year.

Splash Damage Studio made a gift to novice developers. She posted a design document of the Dirty Bomb game to the public.

Deep learning technology continues to prove its usefulness in improving graphics. Recently, the ESRGAN neural network helped improve the image in The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind by adding detail to textures. Now similar tools have made it possible to improve The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Final Fantasy VII.

The game was released last October for Xbox One and PC.

Erez Goren has announced his retirement from Hi-Rez. According to Gameindustry.biz, he wants to devote himself to the healthcare sector.