GamesIndustry.biz cites the latest figures of the esports market collected by Newzoo and gaming companies.

Report by Maxim Muravyev from Plarium. After the success of the Vikings: War of Clans game, not only the staff, but also the number of tasks increased in the studio. In order to adapt to the new conditions, the studio Plarium Krasnodar went through the reorganization of a large team. Maxim told how the changes affected the corporate culture, and how it affected the effectiveness of the team.

Founder and CEO of tinyBuild Alex Nichiporchik said App2Top.ru how the outgoing year has passed for him and his company.

HotS developers will create new games that Activision insists on.

Wanted: Unity programmer at Playrix, graphic designer at Pixonic and producer at Fusion Core.

It took the mobile shooter Game Insight two years.

Starbreeze stated that after the restructuring, it will focus exclusively on the development and publication of video games. This means that it can abolish its VR divisions.

A report by Natalie Portier from Appodeal. Natalie told how publishers can influence the evolution of the market and make it fair for all players.

Korean developer Pearl Abyss has opened its first North American office. His task is to develop the Western market.

Playkot co-founder Alexander Pavlov spoke about what his company has achieved this year.

Playrix Creative Director Igor Elovikov told App2Top how the year went for the company and which projects became central for him in 2018.

The tools created for Fortnite will be free for all developers, Epic Games announced. With their help, cross-platform support can be introduced into the game to unite console, mobile and desktop players.

The Russian publisher of online games will be responsible for the upcoming release of Era of Legends in the West. In China, the project was launched in the summer by the publisher Tencent under the name MT4.

In the first nine months, console sales in Russia reached 6.8 billion rubles. According to the forecasts of retailers “M.Video” and “Eldorado”, by the end of the year the turnover of this market will exceed 12 billion rubles.

Apple lost the patent court to its former supplier of components.

The IT company is accused of non-compliance with the legislation of the country.

Many developers welcomed the news of the launch of the Epic Games Store positively. But there are alternative opinions. Developer of the indie project Cook, Serve, Delicious! David Galindo believes that the recently launched Epic Games Store is not a competitor to Steam and is generally not needed by anyone except developers.

The co-founder of Azur Games Artem Nikolaev told about the launch of the office in Dubai and the trends of the year.

Report by Roman Goroshkin from Epic Games. The speaker gave a brief instruction for developers on how to make sure that there was money, fame and honor.