The revenues of the Singapore studio IGG in 2017 amounted to $603 million. The revenue driver was the mobile role-playing MMO game Lords Mobile. Last year, the fritupley title generated from $30 to $51 million per month.

App Annie has published an index of the most downloaded mobile games for February. Thanks to him, it turned out that Novosibirsk-based Naxeex is slightly inferior to Vivendi and Activision Blizzard in monthly user installations with Android.

On March 13, the analytical company App Annie summed up the results of the gaming industry over the past year. She posted a presentation online about the general state of affairs in the market. We have identified 8 main facts.

The free-play MMO action game Warframe by the Canadian studio Digital Extreme turns 5 years old in a week. During the existence of the game, more than 38 million players have registered in it, the developers said.

Google has announced an open source project called Agones. It is designed to host multiplayer game servers.

Owners of a paid account on the Twitch stream platform will be able to receive a set of PC games on a monthly basis. The Free Games With Prime offer is free of charge and will come into force on March 15.

Round table about UX/UI design. Speakers from Obsidian Entertainment, Remedy Entertainment, SYBO and tinyBuild discussed the main processes in UX/UI design, the problems faced by specialists, as well as favorite chips in UX/UI.

Wanted: ASO is a specialist at DevGame Studio, a leading game designer at Playkot and a tester at Social Quantum.

The developers of the popular PvP shooter PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have purchased the MadGlory game service. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The first project of UBG Corp. and MadGlory will be a portal for developers of gaming add-ons for PUBG.

The number of employees at the headquarters of the Australian studio Halfbrick Studios decreased by 30 people as a result of a large-scale reduction. This is reported by Cnet, citing internal sources.

The cooperative shooter Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has successfully started. Over half a million game copies were sold in the first 4 days after the release. The first part of the game reached this figure in 6 months of sales.

A report by Pedro Rodriguez from Facebook. The speaker spoke about how HTML5 games in messengers affect user communication.

Chinese IT giant Tencent has invested over $1 billion in local streaming platforms Douyu and Huya. In one day Douyu received $634 million, and Huya — $461 million.

The number of viewers watching Fortnite multiplayer action streams at the same time has been higher for several days in a row than MOBA League of Legend. Epic Games hit became the second game in the history of Twitch that managed to surpass Riot Games in the number of viewers on the platform.

Texas-based BattleCry Studios has become part of game developer and publisher Bethesda. The only BattleCry Studios project was the BattleCry team action, which was canceled at the development stage.

Mobile developer Kixeye has received $20 million in investments to create a platform that uses machine learning capabilities in game marketing, monetization and user retention.

Creative director and screenwriter of Naughty Dog studio Neil Druckmann (Neil Druckmann) has been appointed its vice president. The company explained the appointment as recognition of Drakmann’s services to the company.

A report by Laurence Rutten from CoolGames. The speaker spoke about the opportunities for developers of messenger games.

The games of the Dutch mobile publisher Spil Games have gained over 300 million downloads. In the past, Spil Games specialized in browser games, but since 2014 it has been actively developing the mobile direction.