On February 18, the Russian publisher “Buka” announced that together with the German Koch Media will publish games of domestic developers in the USA and Europe. We talked to Alexander Kutekhov, producer of Buki, about the deal, working conditions with the teams and publishing preferences.

The Russian video game publisher, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2019, has begun expansion into foreign markets. Buka has announced that it will distribute domestic projects abroad.

Experts analyzed the demographics of North American Nintendo Switch players.

On February 15, major changes in the “Vacancies” section came into force on the website. All job ads that are shown on App2Top.ru , started pulling up with the TalentsInGames service.

South Korean mobile publisher Netmarble has reported for the final quarter of 2018. Its indicators are falling compared to both the previous quarter and the previous year.

Game dev workers in the USA deserve more than crunches and meager salaries. The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Unions (AFL—CIO) recall this in an open letter published by Kotaku.

On February 15, the official launch of Metro Exodus took place. The novelty is already the third shooter in the universe of the writer Dmitry Glukhovsky from the Ukrainian 4A Games. We talk about how the project was met by the press, players, and also evaluate its possible sales.

The store sold keys for Steam and Uplay.

Two Moscow studios decided to join forces in the production of screensavers and cut scenes for video games. How and why they did it, App2Top.ru I talked to the co-founders of Owl Studio and krem.productions.

The studio is being reorganized due to an annual loss of $ 19 million.

This is not surprising given the growth rate of Apex Legends.

Ubisoft reported for the last quarter and for the last nine months of 2018.

Chinese giant Tencent has joined the South Korean consortium created by Netmarble. The latter is one step closer to buying Nexon, the publisher of ArcheAge and Dragon Nest.

The last round of funding brought the publisher tinyBuild $15 million. The company did not name its investors.

On February 13, White Nights Berlin 2019 ended. The event was attended by about 1400 participants from 50 countries. This is a record figure for a conference outside of Russia. White Nights gathers more guests only in the summer in St. Petersburg.

AppLovin analysts assessed the demographics of mobile gamers in the US and the UK.

The Finnish company has weak financial indicators this year.

Now he has exclusive rights to broadcast one of the largest esports events in Russia and the CIS.

It became known which Activision Blizzard studios fell under the cuts.