A report by Mike Hines from Amazon. The speaker shared data shared with Newzoo and Twitch about who is playing, who is watching, and who is paying now in the eSports field.

Former vice president of BioWare, Aaryn Flynn, told why the company began using the Frostbite game engine instead of the Eclipse engine of its own design.

Google has updated a selection of games that it considers exemplary for its mobile platform. The new titles include the word game CodyCross: Crossword Puzzles from Fanatee Games and the Orbital 1 card strategy from Ethermax studio.

The role-playing tactics of Phoenix Point by the author of the X-COM series Julian Gallop generates up to $100 thousand on pre-orders. This was told by the co-founder of the studio Snapshot Games David Kaye (David Kaye).

Report by David Gattig from Avrlon VR Studio. The speaker spoke about how indie studios combine game development and business processes.

Razer, a manufacturer of professional gaming equipment, has launched its own platform for selling digital copies of Razer Game Store PC games.

The creators of the “battle royale” PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUNDS filed a lawsuit against the Chinese company NetEase. The reason for the proceedings were the mobile games Rules of Survival and Knives Out, largely repeating the style and gameplay of the original.

Boss Key Production company announced the suspension of work on the heroic online shooter LawBreakers. The team recognized the commercial failure of the project and wants to switch to creating new games.

Recently, the Gamesbeat portal published an interview with Ilkka Paanen, who heads the Finnish forge of Supercell hits. As is usually the case with Ilkka, the conversation was about the internal processes of the company. But this time he touched in detail on how the process of closing unsuccessful projects in the company takes place.

In 2017, 1.5 million new apps appeared in the Google app store — 14% more than a year earlier. At the same time, for the first time in history, the App Store noted a decrease in new releases. During the year, 755 thousand applications were released in the store, which is 29% lower than the result of 2016.

“Toxic” players are one of the main problems of most modern online games. Ubisoft spoke about countering the rude and interfering behavior of gamers in the tactical team shooter Rainbow Six Siege.

Studio Big Huge Games and publisher Nexon celebrated 3 years since the release of the mobile strategy DomiNations. During this time, the freeplay game has gained over 37 million downloads.

Major South Korean publisher Netmarble bought a 25.71% stake in local record label Big Hit Entertainment (BHE) for $190 million. Thanks to the deal, Netmarble became the second largest shareholder of the music company.

The fifth part of the Far Cry action movie from Ubisoft set a record for sales in the first week after release. The publisher reported that Far Cry 5 was more than one and a half times ahead of the previous part of the series in terms of the number of copies sold in the starting 7 days. During this time, the game earned $ 310 million.

A report by Matt Daly from Wargaming. The speaker spoke about the mixed reality technology used in the World of Tanks project.

The Assassin’s Creed series of historical stealth fighters is one of Ubisoft’s most extensive franchises. Assassin’s Creed brand manager and Ubisoft creative director Jean Guesdon told how they manage to release a large-scale project every 2-3 years.

Using the example of working on the visual novel One Day in London, OWL Studio CEO Vera Velichko told how to speed up the creation of game art.

The creator of the adventure game Where The Water Tastes Like Wine (WTWTLW), Johnnemann Nordhagen, admitted that he earned $ 0 on the game. Nordhagen invested more than $140 thousand of personal funds in his work and spent 4 years on it.

The California investment fund Makers Fund has invested in a number of companies in the gaming industry. Among them are developer studios, publishers, esports services and other firms.