The co-founder of the independent studio Snapshot Games, David Kaye, told how his company managed to attract almost $2.2 million through crowdfunding and pre-orders for the development and promotion of the Phoenix Point tactical strategy from the author of the famous XCOM game franchise, Julian Gallop.

Mikhail Kuzmin, co-founder of the podcast “How Games are Made” and head of business development at HeroCraft, announced his transition to the position of marketing director at tinyBuild publishing house, known for launching games such as Punch Club and Hello Neighbor.

The analytical company Newzoo has prepared a traditional rating of the 20 most popular games on the PC platform in July 2018.

Analysts from Sensor Tower have calculated how much Epic Games’ decision not to publish its Fortnite blockbuster in the store can cost Google Play.

Despite Epic Games’ refusal to publish Fortnite on Google Play, at least one of the company’s mobile games will still appear on the official Android marketplace.

During the round table at White Nights St. Petersburg, experts discussed the specifics of interaction with influencers, what difficulties they have to face, and how cooperation helps in promoting the game.

The Chinese gaming market is under attack. Due to administrative changes, the region was left without new games. The administration, which is responsible for issuing licenses for publishing games, has not issued them since the end of March.

The mobile action game War Robots from the Russian Pixonic team has already received 100 million installations on all platforms. A year ago, this number was less than half.

The cross-platform action-adventure game with “cubic” graphics Pokémon Quest earned $8 million in the first month after its release. The main revenue came in the first week after the release of the game, then the spending of gamers decreased by an order of magnitude.

The open beta testing of the version of the GameMaker Studio 2 engine with the Nintendo Switch license has begun, which allows you to develop and port games for a hybrid console.

On the day of the release of Monster Hunter: World on Steam, 240 thousand gamers played the game at the same time. This is the biggest Steam release of 2018.

The creators of the Cuphead platformer, made in the aesthetics of cartoons of the 30s, announced that the game was bought more than 3 million times. The game has achieved such success in less than a year since its release.

Report by Yegor Danilov from Odnoklassniki. The speaker spoke about ways to get free game traffic from the social network, some news about the development of mobile games in the OK and new opportunities for developers.

Apple decided to fight illegal activity in the App Store and began removing gambling apps from the store from individual developers. Moreover, not only gambling projects are being removed, but also games in the genre of social casinos.

Hello Neighbor turned out to be one of the most popular iOS gaming requests in the United States and Russia in July, AdvertMobile reports in its latest research.

Looks like it’s time for Steam to step aside. The Discord gaming messenger has launched a beta version of its own store and promises good support to indie developers who will release their games first in this store.

Previously, developers of historical games had to remove Nazi symbols from their games in order to release them in Germany. Now the German authorities have allowed such games to be licensed if the use of Nazi images is justified.

Adam Telfer, co-founder of Chatterbox Games studio, explains in detail what you need to understand and take into account when you develop a game for messenger using the example of projects with Facebook Instant Games. 

In the second quarter, Activision Blizzard earned $1.64 billion, including $521 million from mobile. This is the company’s record revenue from mobile games.