On October 16-17, the White Nights gaming conference will be held in Moscow. It will host an exhibition of developers. The organizers are waiting for applications for participation from teams whose projects are in beta and above.

Ex-employees of BioWare Austin Dallas Dickinson (Dallas Dickinson) and Gabe Amantangelo (Game Amantangelo) told how Electronic Arts forced them to leave the famous studio and open their own company for the sake of reviving their own project.

One of the most popular search queries in August in the USA on iOS is Tomb of the Mask from Playgendary.

The revenue of Nintendo’s highest-grossing mobile game continues to grow. This summer, the role-playing tactics of Fire Emblem Heroes earned $63 million. Compared to the same period last year, revenue increased by 34%, according to Sensor Tower.

Game Recommendation Service RAWG.io launched by Kanobu founder Haji Mahtiyev, the ICO was postponed from September of this year to March next year. There are two reasons: the failure of the presale for $ 5 million and the unfavorable situation in the ICO market.

Wanted: technical artist at Cubic Games, game designer at Kefir and head of art direction at Frostgate studio.

British screenwriter and game designer Alexis Kennedy wrote an article on Gamasutra about how not to tire a gamer with information about the game world. Kennedy is known as the author of the browser quest Fallen London and the “bagel” Sunless Sea.

Today, on September 4, Belka Games studio launched a charity event in the Watchmaker game. All the money earned inside the event will be used to support programs United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). We talked to Yuri Krasilnikov, the company’s business development director, about the details of the event and why the company is taking part in it.

It is considered that the main source of inspiration for the Monument Valley series is paintings by Mauritz Escher. In fact, there are much more sources. Behind each level of the franchise’s games is a piece of art, a photo or even a music video.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 3.

Odnoklassniki launches a contest among mobile HTML5 developers. They promise traffic, money and possible investment from the outside Mail.Ru Game Ventures. Thus, the social network wants to increase the range of projects on its mobile gaming platform.

Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag is dissatisfied with his compatriots from Avalanche Studios. This summer, the studio announced the game Generation Zero, the setting of which is very similar to the plots of Stalenhag’s works. The artist claims that he knew nothing about the project. Simon has no legal claims, but he is annoyed that his style was borrowed without asking.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for August 31.

A little joy in the feed for HTML5 developers. The Direct Games gaming platform will return to the iOS version of the VKontakte application. There will be no more IAP. But they will offer an alternative — rewarding advertising.

The situation around the games in China is escalating. The Ministry of Education of China has recommended limiting the number of online games that receive approval to launch. The official reason is the fight against myopia.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for August 30.

Two Asian dragons decided to work together. Today, on August 30, Tencent and Square Enix announced the signing of a letter of intent. Its result will be the formation of a strategic alliance of companies.

The European rating system PEGI will begin to warn buyers of physical copies of video games about the presence of domestic purchases. To do this, a special symbol will be applied to the packaging of games with transactions. The new rule will come into force in the coming months.

The turnover of the gaming market in Russia will double in the next five years — from $2.2 billion to $4.8 billion By 2022, the gaming sector will overtake TV advertising in revenue and come in third place in the revenue structure of the Russian media and entertainment industry. This is stated in the study “World Entertainment and Media Review: Forecast for 2018-2022” by PwC consulting company.