The Spanish gaming market ranks ninth in the world in terms of revenue. By the end of the year, spending by local gamers will reach $2 billion, analysts from Newzoo estimate.

Fortnite received $1 billion in revenue from in-game purchases. Monthly revenue of the game is only increasing, the analytical company Superdata reported.

Kirill Zabrodin, Technical Director of Social Quantum, spoke at White Nights St.Petersburg 2018. In the report, he shared the definition of the prototype and talked about how to prototype correctly.

From April to June 2018, Ubisoft earned $444.8 million instead of the target $410.5 million. This is a record indicator of the company for the first fiscal quarter.

Cookie Crush, a three-in-a-row game from German Softgames, has crossed the threshold of one billion downloads on Facebook Instant Games in seven months.

Cases of aggressive and toxic behavior of players in Overwatch have significantly decreased after the introduction of the mutual evaluation of players and the search for a suitable group for the match, Blizzard reported.

Wanted: Data Scientist at ZeptoLab, PR manager at Azur Games, Unity developer at Belka Games and 2D artist at Plarium.

The revenue of mobile games in the App Store and Google Play for the first six months of 2018 amounted to $26.6 billion. This is 19.1% more than in the same period of 2017 last year, analysts at Sensor Tower calculated.

The company Huuuge Games, which owns the social casino Huuuge Casino, has now started publishing games. Its publishing division Tap Tap Games will be engaged in the release of casual mobile games.

Mark Brown, the author of the Game Maker’s Toolkit project, has launched a series of video tutorials for designers who want to make their games more accessible to people with disabilities. Mark’s first video is dedicated to people with hearing impairments and how to make high-quality subtitles.

Epic Games Licensing Manager Alexey Savchenko spoke at White Nights St.Petersburg 2018. He spoke about the differences between a business developer and sales, about why investors invest money in development, as well as how to conduct transactions correctly.

A year ago, the RAWG recommendation service was launched — a gaming analogue of Spotify and IMDb. Now it is turning into something more ambitious: RAWG has entered the ICO, intends to reward gamers with tokens for achievements in games and sell the audience to publishers. We talked with its technical director Samat Galimov about where the service is going.

Games with erotic content are temporarily not allowed to be released on Steam – until Valve completes a filtering system that will allow players to exclude such projects from the issue.

On White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 was performed by Alexander Shmyrov, producer of Game Insight. Alexander told why the company held one of the last events in Guns of Boom with the participation of actor Danny Trejo.

The App Annie platform has published an index of the most downloaded and highest-grossing games last June. With an eye on him, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales. Among the stars of June: Hole.io , Draw In and Twisty Arrow.

The narrative game studio Inkle Studios, known for the 80 days project, at the end of August for the first time organizes an “ink jam” – a game jam for screenwriters and developers working with the ink language.

Sensor Tower made up the top ten games in the App Store that American users rated the most highly. In the first place was not Angry Birds at all and not even Plants vs. Zombies.

Italy ranks tenth in the world in terms of gaming market revenue. Italians will spend $2 billion on games this year, Newzoo predicts. If Newzoo’s forecast comes true, it will mean that the market has grown by $0.2 billion over the year — last year it was estimated at $1.8 billion.

A small selection of the most widely read publications App2Top.ru for this week. Among the most popular are such reasons as “A GOST for mobile applications has appeared in Russia” and “The publisher of Game of War has fired more than a hundred traffic managers.”