The PC version of the multiplayer RPG Fallout 76 will be distributed only through the service Bethesda.net , the game will not appear on Steam.

Svyatoslav Torik from Wargaming Research & Development conducted a survey to find out how Russian-speaking game designers create game concepts and relate to colleagues.

A selection of ten books that tell interesting stories about video games, development and the gaming industry in general.

A large-scale opinion poll among independent Unity developers showed that it takes more than a year to develop a good project, studios rarely develop only one game, interest in VR/AR is growing in the industry, and developers are looking for new employees among acquaintances and in social networks.

Report by Elena Egorova from myTarget. In her speech, Elena talked about how to increase the number of installations and increase the return and user engagement rates in 3 months.

According to Newzoo, the Chinese gaming market has reached a turnover of $37.9 billion. This year, Chinese gamers will spend $10.4 billion more than last year.

The founders of Team Cherry studio described in detail how the indie hit Hollow Knight appeared – from the first ideas to the grueling final testing.

At the beginning of the week, there was a rumor that Fortnite would not be published on Google Play. Today, this information was confirmed by Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney. He stated that the game will be available for download from the official Fortnite website.

The revenues of the British company Games Workshop, which owns the rights to the Warhammer franchise, increased by 94% over the year. The company receives 96% of its licensing revenue from video games*.

The Chinese market is becoming more and more interesting for developers and publishers of mobile games every year. However, the question of how to get to it correctly is still relevant. Is adding Chinese to the game enough? How big are the cultural differences? Which stores makes sense to work with? Is a local representative really necessary? The speakers answered these and other questions during the round table.

The Skolkovo Foundation proposes to exempt Russian developers from paying VAT for equipping the workplaces of programmers writing software for export.

The affiliate program, which allowed websites with reviews of iOS applications to receive a percentage of purchases in the App Store, will be closed from October 1.

Digital collectible card games (CCI) are not the fastest growing gaming segment. Five years ago, their global revenue was $1.3 billion. This year, this figure will reach $1.5 billion. However, the analytical company Superdata is confident that the growth rate of the genre will increase in the future.

There is also a game dev in Pakistan. It was in this South Asian country that the Cloudcade studio from San Francisco, which developed a casual simulator Shop Heroes, opened its new division.

Founder of the game design blog Deconstructor of Fun Michail Katkoff reflects on why Supercell fails to make a genre-forming project out of Brawl Stars and whether the game will die before it reaches the world release. The article examines in detail what happened to the game in four big updates and where the developers made mistakes.

According to Newzoo, in two years, the revenue of the American gaming market has increased by $6.8 billion and now stands at $30.4 billion.

The free-play role-playing game Fire Emblem Heroes, earned $400 million in a year and a half since its release. Other Nintendo mobile titles bring many times less.

NPD Group specialists analyzed the June indicators of the US gaming market. Compared to last year, sales of gaming hardware jumped by 52%, with the inexpensive retro NES Classic console selling best.

A report by Ivan Kozyev from Crazy Panda. The speaker spoke about machine learning algorithms, how to benefit from them, embed them in workflows and use them for marketing analytics using the example of the Crazy Panda experience.