The owners of the social MMO sandbox Roblox in 2018 plan to pay about $ 70 million to the authors of mini-games for their service. This is more than twice the amount earned by the creators of Roblox games in 2017.

Valve prefers to stay away from what is happening on the Steam forums, and sometimes this leads to sad results. Grace Carroll, who is responsible for SMM at Creative Assembly, told how the Total War community became toxic without moderation and how it was fixed.

The segment of companies engaged in augmented reality projects expanded by 50% in the first half of 2018, according to the investment fund The Venture Reality Fund.

Nadav Ashkenazy, ironSource’s Vice President for Publisher Relations and Sales, spoke at the recent White Nights. He explained exactly how to improve the financial performance of a mobile game by placing ads in it.

After 22 years of work, James Ohlen left BioWare. He was the lead designer of both Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Olen also worked on the Dragon Age series, and now he has taken up board role-playing games.

A new Steam update and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Dutch and Belgian players have been released. Gamers are not allowed to open loot boxes on their own, but you are welcome to buy their contents in the Steam market.

Sensor Tower made up the top ten publishers with the largest number of games in the App Store. In the first place by a huge margin is the American Big Fish Games.

Mexico ranks 12th in terms of gaming market turnover. In 2018, the players of this country will spend $ 1.6 billion, Newzoo predicts.

Epic Games turns into a rich kind uncle. The company has changed the terms of payments in its asset store. Instead of the standard 70%, it now pays 88% to content authors from each purchase.

Waves platform, which specializes in the management and release of digital assets, performed at White Nights in St. Petersburg. She assures that the blockchain will help to increase revenue from each user.

For 17 years of its existence, the MMORPG RuneScape from Jagex Ltd has earned $800 million. During this time, 250 million people have registered in the game.

The new Nintendo console has a great year in the States. According to its results, it will overtake the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the number of copies sold. This forecast was made by Mat Piscatella, an analyst at NPD.

Machine Zone has cut about 125 employees. According to VentureBeat sources, employees responsible for marketing campaigns and user engagement have been hit by a wave of layoffs.

The second large-scale update of Unity for the year boasts new rendering capabilities, convenient debugging of code in IL2CPP builds, a Burst compiler, a completely redesigned resource system and many improvements for 2D games, including support for vector graphics and hexagonal tiles in Tilemap.

Russia ranks 11th in the world in terms of the turnover of the gaming market, the analytical company Newzoo has calculated. According to her, by the end of the year, the country’s market will earn $ 1.7 billion.

The tab with games not yet released on Steam has been improved and renamed to “Popular Future Products”. Now this list will be formed taking into account the interests of a particular user to make the search more productive. The developers recognized that when the list was simply replenished with all future titles, it was practically useless.

Together with Mobio, we tell you a little about CTR, one of the most important metrics in marketing. We touch upon such topics as its calculation and analysis of indicators. The author of the material is Nikolay Marchenko, the media buyer of the platform.

At the last White Nights session, Kiness Cheng (Keyness Cheng) spoke. He represented the company Merculet, which offers customers its own solution for the implementation of blockchain in their projects. He spoke about what opportunities the blockchain opens up to the gaming industry today.

The stream from the convention of fans of the free-play MMO RPG Warframe gathered an audience of 414 thousand viewers on Twitch, which is 25 times more than last year’s result. The developers actively encouraged fans to watch the broadcast, rewarding viewers with free loot.