At the end of September , the Russian Owlcat Games has released the Pathfinder: Kingmaker role-playing game. We talked with the studio head Oleg Shpilchevsky about how its development was going and why it appeared raw at the start, according to the players.

Report by Alexander Zabezhinsky from Playrix. The session was dedicated to the Township project. Alexander spoke about why the development team was changing the game. What changes turned out to be fateful. And what points should those who develop games today pay attention to.

There is nothing superfluous in the Mega Man 11 platformer, according to video blogger Mark Brown. We publish a translation of his review on a novelty from Capcom.

We note the mobile games that showed the fastest growth in downloads over the past week.

We are starting to publish videos and presentations of reports from White Nights Moscow 2018. The first video is a lecture by Maxim Samorukov from DataMagic. The speaker spoke about how the featuring placement correlates with the country’s population and income level, and also analyzed the role of the feature in the success strategy of modern mobile games.

The developer of Fortnite and Unreal Engine received a transfer of $1.2 billion. Seven companies led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) invested in Epic Games.

Lucid Games level designer Tom Pugh talks about effective techniques when creating game levels.

In early October, the Lithuanian studio Nordcurrent released a fritupley hidden “Murder in the Alps”. We asked the developers about how they worked on the project.

We often hear about the burnout of individual developers or entire creative teams that have gone through a crunch. The Red Dead Redemption 2 team from Rockstar and the bankrupt Telltale studio faced rework.

Russian Internet giant Mail.Ru Group reported for July-September. The company earned $270 million (17 billion rubles) during this period. Almost a third of this amount came from games (5.7 billion rubles).

What happened at the 17th White Nights business Conference in Pervoprestolnaya is studied by the reaction of guests on social networks.

The number of monthly active Steam users has reached 90 million. Valve representatives told about this at the Melbourne Games Week conference.

The Japanese battler Monster Strike has earned $7.2 billion dollars since its release in 2013. Now it is the highest-grossing game in the history of the App Store and Google Play. This is reported by Sensor Tower.

Wanted: product manager at Pixonic, team leader at Kraft, game analyst at Kefir, SMM manager at ZiMAD and MMO designer at Friday’s Games.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 23.

Publisher Voodoo releases one successful game after another. Hyper-casual games from Voodoo generate 100 million downloads per month. The secret lies in the great creative freedom that the publisher provides to its developers.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 22.

Alisher Usmanov’s USM structure and Megafon mobile operator gave sole control over the holding Mail.ru Group. After the renewal of the board of directors, the management of the company was transferred to its top managers and partners.

Today, on October 22, the official announcement of the new site from VKontakte took place. The social network announced that it is preparing a platform on which independent PC game developers will be able to post their games.