Tropico 6, an economic strategy from Limbic Entertainment, was released on March 29. We tell you how the project was received by the players and the press, evaluate the sales potential.

90% of the mobile games audience Mail.ru Group — foreign users. A third of the mobile audience accounts for the United States.

Epic Games Store has been running for four months. During this time, sales of games in it approached $ 500 million.

In June, three board members will leave Sony at once. Among them is Chairman Kaz Hirai. He announced his imminent departure from the Japanese company where he worked for 35 years.

Xsolla has introduced the Xsolla Funding Club investment platform. Its goal is to establish a connection between investors and talented indie developers.

Tencent has launched the official website of its new streaming platform Start. A closed beta test of the new product has been announced, in which residents of Shanghai and Guangdong will be able to take part.

Following Diablo on the digital platform GOG.COM Two more classic Blizzard Entertainment games have appeared. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II have gone on sale Battle.net Edition.

On Monday, March 25, Electronic Arts released a new mode for Battlefield V — “battle royale”. She could not hold the attention of Twitch users for a long time. Already on Tuesday, the number of viewers streaming the game has halved.

On the fifth of March, the mobile release of the role-playing MMO Perfect World took place in China. The game took a little more than three weeks to earn $100 million on iOS. Thanks to this, it overtook Honor of Kings in monthly iOS revenue and became Tencent’s highest-grossing game for March.

On March 27, CD Projekt published financial results for the past year, and also shared a number of internal figures, ranging from the number of employees and ending with the distribution of sales of The Witcher 3 across platforms.

Survival Subnautica was planned as a small project. But in five years its scale has grown. Not least — thanks to feedback. At the presentation of GDC 2019, the indie studio Unknown Worlds Entertainment told how the community helped to improve the game at the earliest stages. 

On June 19-20, the White Nights conference will be held in St. Petersburg. As usual, an exhibition of developers will be held within the framework of the event. This time, in addition to the free stand, its participants also receive a 15% discount on the ticket.

Mike Rose, the head of No More Robots, told about where to look for an audience for developers of a new indie game.

Wanted: Unity-developer at PlayVictory, head of Game design at Game Insight and game designer at Gaijin Entertainment.

In recent years, the dynamics of game sales has changed significantly. Indie developer Jason Rohrer came to this conclusion by comparing the data on release sales of his projects.

A representative of the Russian office of Electronic Arts in the comments for App2Top.ru He told how the company will continue to work in the local market after the disbandment of the team in Moscow.

One of the largest publishers will return to Steam. Bethesda refused to distribute its PC titles exclusively through the launcher Bethesda.net . Yesterday, she announced on Twitter that DOOM: Eternal, Rage 2, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and the VR game Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot will be added to Steam as they are released.

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has taken on large-scale cuts. 350 employees will leave the company. Layoffs will affect marketing departments, publications and not only.

At GDC 2019, Nintendo unveiled a list of the best indie bestsellers for Switch of all time.