Games are increasingly addressing specific political and social issues in their plots and settings. However, major publishers seem embarrassed to admit this and constantly insist that their titles are not a political statement. The Polygon publication discussed with industry workers and experts why this is happening.

The revenues of the mobile role-playing MMO game Lineage M from South Korean NCsoft exceeded $ 1.2 billion in the first year of its existence. This is reported by the business publication The Investor.

Streaming startup DLive has released a mobile version of the service for broadcasts for Android. DLive uses the technology of the Steem blockchain platform, created to encourage content authors on social networks using cryptocurrency.

Valve has disabled the ability to sell and exchange game items in online games Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 in the Netherlands. The reason was the country’s law prohibiting the circulation of virtual items that can be sold for real money or played as a prize in a gambling game with money bets.

Whether it is worth using blockchain in games and if so, how exactly — market experts will talk about this at the White Nights conference. We suggest that they come up with interesting questions on the topic. The authors of the two best questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Wanted: a game designer at Cubic Games, an ASO intern at DevGame Studio and a frontend specialist at Ubisoft.

The social network Facebook has introduced an interactive video service Gameshow, designed for the production of game shows of various formats: polls, quizzes and other tasks. This is reported by TechCrunch.

The publisher of Walking Dead: Road to Survival raised $100 million for future acquisitions and investments in game studios and new IP.

Czech studio Madfinger Games took only two days to adapt its Shadowgun Legends free-to-play shooter for Switch. This was told by the executive director of the studio Marek Rabas (Marek Rabas).

Almost all games downloaded from Google Play are found by users in the store itself by searching and viewing the catalog. Mainly advertising traffic accounts for only 12%, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower.

In the first three months since the launch on iOS, fans of the main hit Epic Games spent $ 100 million in the game, analysts from Sensor Tower estimated. Only Clash Royale and Pokémon GO earned faster on iOS.

According to the analytical company SuperData, the segment of augmented reality applications in the second quarter of 2018 developed slowly, users and developers began to lose interest in it. However, analysts are confident that this drop is temporary, and the situation will change before the end of the year.

The international community of video game developers and publishers did not agree with the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to include gaming disorder in the new edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). 8 gaming associations have signed an appeal to the WHO with a request to reconsider their plans.

Abstract arcade game Torus, which was made by 16-year-old Brandon Kynoch from Johannesburg alone, was chosen as the game of the day in the App Store. During the day, the game was downloaded a hundred thousand times.

The pages of publishers and developers of video games have appeared on Steam. They contain lists of published titles, links to official pages on social networks and other information about companies. The innovation is still in open beta testing mode.

The Finnish Critical Force has received $6.3 million in investments, which will be invested in the company’s flagship project — the Critical Ops mobile shooter with competitive gameplay. The developers call the development of the game as an esports discipline with official tournaments and competitions their priority.

Although digital sales of video games are growing every year, American gamers continue to actively buy physical copies of titles. According to a report by the analytical company Nielsen, 66% of console owners in the United States prefer a game on disk to its digital version.

How easy is the problem of declension solved when working on texts in games, in a small case for App2Top.ru he told me Igor Nyrtsov, Editor of Allcorrect Group.

The developers of the War Robots mobile action game from Pixonic are preparing to launch their game on the iDreamSky platform, one of the largest Chinese publishers.