August was unsuccessful for Riot Games. Her “League of Legends” for the first time in a year was in third place in monthly sales on PC. It was overtaken not only by the Chinese MMO Dungeon Fighter Online, but also by the premium World of Warcraft.

Again about abbreviations. The publisher of Big Fish Casino and Gummy Drop is going to cut its staff by 15%. He will dismiss not only developers, but also several key figures in management.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 25.

Machine learning (ML) in the gaming industry is most often associated with level testing and dynamic complexity change. Meanwhile, this tool can also be used to increase gaming profits. About this in his material for App2Top.ru Dmitry Shelengovsky, the founder of Playgendary, who is actively introducing ML into his products, told us.

During the development of Endless Space 2, the team shared the game design of the game with the community and asked for feedback.

The laws of Belgium forced ArenaNet to take extreme measures. She turned off the ability to buy gems for Guild Wars 2 in the country. Most likely, this happened because of the fear of receiving a fine of € 800 thousand.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 24.

A round table on machine learning in games will be held at the Moscow White Nights session, which will be held on October 16-17. We offer to ask its participants questions. The authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket.

Anastasia Selchuk from Pixonic told whether it is possible to find out how the audience will meet her before the release of the game (and even at the pre-production stage).

The Swedish Stillfront Group announced the expansion of its portfolio of companies. The group acquired 100% of the shares of Imperia Online studio. The user base of the latter is 45 million people.

The developer of The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us is on the verge of closure. The studio fired most of the employees. It is reported that only about 25 people out of 250 will continue to work at Telltale Games. The rest lose their places even without severance pay.

On the example of the game “Caramels” Anna Vyugina, ex-product manager of Fotostrana, spoke about the solutions that helped increase the revenue of the project.

Another bad news from China. Twitch no longer works in China: the website is unavailable, the app in the regional App Store is also unavailable.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 20.

On September 19, the official launch of the Nintendo online service took place. Bloomberg journalist Yuji Nakamura analyzed in detail why the new service caused a flurry of criticism. We present a short version of the material in Russian.

The main game on the US market in August was Madden NFL 19. The simulator of American football, released on the eve of the start of the real season of this sport, has overtaken all other blockbusters in sales.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 19.

Magic Leap One augmented reality glasses are taking the first steps towards becoming a gaming platform. A month after the release of the device, it became known that he would have his first game. This fall, a special version of Angry Birds will be released for MR glasses.

This phrase was dropped in an interview with VentureBeat designer Cyril Lagarick (Cyrille Lagarigue). With her help, Cyril explained his approach to the development of Streets of Rage 4, which he is currently working on.