In the first days of March 2016, the first episode of One Day in London, the OWL-studio image project, was released on Steam. Vera Velichko, founder and art director of the Moscow studio, before the release of the fifth episode, recalls how the mechanics in her visual novel developed.

Capcom publishing house called the sales of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action the best in its history. Since the game’s release on January 26, Capcom has shipped 7.5 million copies of the game to stores and provided digital downloads on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Video interview with Timur Haussila from Supercell. Timur told how Supercell is preparing projects for release, and what difficulties the team is facing.

The game industry of the United Kingdom was estimated at £5.1 billion at the end of 2017. The annual growth was 12.4%, and the sales of consoles and gaming PCs became the driver of the industry. This is stated in the report of the British Association of video game developers Ukie.

Square Enix announced a personnel reorganization of the board of directors. The new board includes developers who participated in the creation of a number of flagship tiles of the company.

The head of the gaming division and executive vice president of Rovio Wilhelm Taht (Wilhelm Taht) left the post without explanation. His departure was preceded by a record drop in the company’s shares, which was announced a week earlier.

Ubisoft has acquired the independent game studio Blue Mammoth Games. Together with her, the company acquired the rights to the free-play online fighting game Brawlhalla, which managed to gain popularity on PC and PlayStation 4.

The number of players in Ubisoft’s MMO action game The Division continues to grow two years after its release. At the beginning of March, the project’s gaming audience crossed the threshold of 20 million players on all platforms. The game is available on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

A report by Stephen Jarrett from King. The speaker spoke about how the company inspires game designers to create cool products.

In February, former iLogos CEO Elena Lobova launched the ACHIEVERS HUB service. Its task is to support indie developers. We are talking about both assistance in expert evaluation, marketing, and in finding investors or publishers. Editor App2Top.ru Alexander Semenov talked to Elena about her career in industry, management and, of course, a new beginning.

We are starting to publish the materials of the White Nights conference, which was held in Prague on February 13-14, 2018. The first report by Silvia Buermann from App Annie. Silvia shared statistics and the latest news of the mobile games market, paying special attention to Russia and the CIS countries.

The main exclusive Sony PlayStation 4 of last year noted yesterday Birthday. The game is a year old. During this time, the number of copies sold reached 7.6 million.

Crytek Founder Djevat Yerli is no longer CEO or president of the company. He put the leadership in the hands of his younger brothers – Avni Yerli and Farouk Yerli.

The French gaming company Ubisoft has acquired a local studio 1492 Studio, known for a series of episodic dating simulators Is It Love? for mobile platforms.

March 1 Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has published a financial report. It covers both the last quarter of last year and the whole year. The company’s revenues from MMO games for both periods increased year-on-year again. Their biggest games Mail.Ru The Group calls Warface and War Robots.

Last Thursday, Hunt: Showdown came out in early access. This is a new game from the German Crytek studio. In less than a week, the audience of the game reached 100 thousand players. We talk about the project, its features and the first indicators.

The American company Zynga has published a puzzle Rangoli Rekha: Color Match in India. The official launch was preceded by a softlonch, which lasted from August last year. Rangoli Rekha is aimed at Indian users: it was developed by a local studio, and the design of the game uses elements of the country’s cultural heritage.

The French mobile publisher Gameloft is gradually changing the business development model. The growth of revenue from the sale of titles is slowing down, so the company’s interests have focused on increasing revenue from the advertising segment and producing more casual titles.

The story around the new “Corsairs” has taken an unexpected turn. Director Mail.Ru Games Ventures Ilya Karpinsky said in his Facebook post that his fund is ready to invest $ 1 million in the development of the game. However, to do this, developers will need to create a prototype of the game.