The international advertising mediation platform Chocolate has published the results of a study on the attitude of mobile developers to their advertising revenue. According to the survey, 69% of the creators of games and programs for mobile are not satisfied with the proceeds from advertising.

There are many tools for organizing and planning work in a game project. The Game Career Guide web edition analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of 8 popular project managers used by game developers.

Nikita Zatsepin’s report from BlueStacks. In his report, Nikita spoke about the latest trends in the mobile-on-PC games market, about the difficulties faced by both developers and midcore+ players, told how the company assesses and solves these difficulties, and why PCs are increasingly becoming the preferred choice of users for mobile competitive games.

The developer of Candy Crush Saga has released a free-to-play mobile role-playing game Legend of Solgard for iOS and Android. It became not only the first role-playing title in the King portfolio, but also the first project focused on the midcore audience.

The global strategy of Crusader Kings 2 by Paradox Interactive has received an unusual promotion at the state level. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia wrote

Hi-Rez Studios has announced the creation of three independent divisions: Titan Forge Games, Evil Mojo Games and Heroic Leap Games. Each studio will focus on its own project.

The American mobile publishing and marketing agency Titling Point has founded a new branch in the industrial and business center of Spain — Barcelona. The work of the Spanish branch will be focused on the European mobile games market.

The Austro-Swedish corporation THQ Nordic announced the acquisition from Crytek of the rights to the game portfolio of the Free Radical Design studio. Among other things, the Timesplitters series of shooters, as well as the action adventure Second Sight, became the property of THQ. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

The authors of Unreal Engine continue to aggressively promote their engine. Their new step in popularizing the tool among developers is the launch of a website with free courses on it.

Czech mobile developer Madfinger Games has announced that it has reached the milestone of 200 million downloads of its games. According to the head of the company Marek Rabas, they managed to achieve such figures without multimillion-dollar investments in advertising.

Due to the fact that the Chinese government suspended the issuance of licenses for the release of new games in the country, the world’s largest game publisher began to have problems. Tencent reported a 2% drop in net income for the second quarter of 2018 compared to the same period last year.

A report by Alexandra Radchenko from Playtestix. In her presentation, Alexandra talked about the dynamics of PUBG positions and the UX layers that keep players in the sensational battle royale genre game: unique mechanics, emotions, comparison with top games (Dota, CS) and references (Arma, H1Z1, Fortnite).

The head of the design direction of Electronic Arts Corporation, Patrick Soderlund, decided to leave the company, where he worked for about 20 years. He was not deterred even by very big money — shortly before that, EA paid a $20 million bonus to the top manager.

Wanted: Head of the traffic procurement department at Belka Games, Unity developer at ITL Games and analytics programmer at Playrix.

The executive director of the Yakuza adventure franchise Toshihiro Nagoshi said that in the past he tried to interest Nintendo and Microsoft in his project. As a result, he was rejected by both companies, which is why the Yakuza series was released only on Sony PlayStation consoles for 8 years.

Mobile “shadow” fighting game reported on the successes. Shadow Fight 3 has gained 40 million installations since its release in November 2017. At the same time, the game receives the most money from China. About this in the comments for App2Top.ru Nikita Korzhavin, Director of Business Development at Nekki, told.

Sometimes the growth opportunities of business metrics are embedded in non-obvious things. IT Territory managed to achieve an increase in the retention of the first day thanks to the introduction of “deep UX” into the development.

Gamers’ spending on the PUBG Mobile online action movie has exceeded $50 million since the game’s international launch in March 2018. The revenue driver of the mobile “battle royale” in the last few weeks has been the sale of Elite Royale Pass subscriptions, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower.

KamaGames, an international publisher of social casinos, has announced the launch of its own KamaGames cryptocurrency token (KGT) on the Ethereum blockchain platform. The pre-sale of tokens will start at the end of September this year.