A year ago, the RAWG recommendation service was launched — a gaming analogue of Spotify and IMDb. Now it is turning into something more ambitious: RAWG has entered the ICO, intends to reward gamers with tokens for achievements in games and sell the audience to publishers. We talked with its technical director Samat Galimov about where the service is going.

Games with erotic content are temporarily not allowed to be released on Steam – until Valve completes a filtering system that will allow players to exclude such projects from the issue.

On White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 was performed by Alexander Shmyrov, producer of Game Insight. Alexander told why the company held one of the last events in Guns of Boom with the participation of actor Danny Trejo.

The App Annie platform has published an index of the most downloaded and highest-grossing games last June. With an eye on him, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales. Among the stars of June: Hole.io , Draw In and Twisty Arrow.

The narrative game studio Inkle Studios, known for the 80 days project, at the end of August for the first time organizes an “ink jam” – a game jam for screenwriters and developers working with the ink language.

Sensor Tower made up the top ten games in the App Store that American users rated the most highly. In the first place was not Angry Birds at all and not even Plants vs. Zombies.

Italy ranks tenth in the world in terms of gaming market revenue. Italians will spend $2 billion on games this year, Newzoo predicts. If Newzoo’s forecast comes true, it will mean that the market has grown by $0.2 billion over the year — last year it was estimated at $1.8 billion.

A small selection of the most widely read publications App2Top.ru for this week. Among the most popular are such reasons as “A GOST for mobile applications has appeared in Russia” and “The publisher of Game of War has fired more than a hundred traffic managers.”

The Berlin administration approved a subsidy of $1.8 million (€1.58 million) for the German division of Ubisoft, which opened in the German capital in January 2018. The funding will help increase the studio’s staff from 50 to 150 jobs.

The owners of the social MMO sandbox Roblox in 2018 plan to pay about $ 70 million to the authors of mini-games for their service. This is more than twice the amount earned by the creators of Roblox games in 2017.

Valve prefers to stay away from what is happening on the Steam forums, and sometimes this leads to sad results. Grace Carroll, who is responsible for SMM at Creative Assembly, told how the Total War community became toxic without moderation and how it was fixed.

The segment of companies engaged in augmented reality projects expanded by 50% in the first half of 2018, according to the investment fund The Venture Reality Fund.

Nadav Ashkenazy, ironSource’s Vice President for Publisher Relations and Sales, spoke at the recent White Nights. He explained exactly how to improve the financial performance of a mobile game by placing ads in it.

After 22 years of work, James Ohlen left BioWare. He was the lead designer of both Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Olen also worked on the Dragon Age series, and now he has taken up board role-playing games.

A new Steam update and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Dutch and Belgian players have been released. Gamers are not allowed to open loot boxes on their own, but you are welcome to buy their contents in the Steam market.

Sensor Tower made up the top ten publishers with the largest number of games in the App Store. In the first place by a huge margin is the American Big Fish Games.

Mexico ranks 12th in terms of gaming market turnover. In 2018, the players of this country will spend $ 1.6 billion, Newzoo predicts.

Epic Games turns into a rich kind uncle. The company has changed the terms of payments in its asset store. Instead of the standard 70%, it now pays 88% to content authors from each purchase.

Waves platform, which specializes in the management and release of digital assets, performed at White Nights in St. Petersburg. She assures that the blockchain will help to increase revenue from each user.