On February 6, the Korean gaming giant Netmarble published a report for the fourth quarter of 2017. It ended very well for the company. She earned $565 million. The commercial success of Lineage 2: Revolution played a big role in this. It accounted for 39% of the company’s revenue.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has included “gaming disorder” in the draft of the new edition of the international classifier of diseases. It will be released this year.

The lead designer of Civilization IV, Soren Johnson, and the art director of the Civilization V project, Dorian Newcomb, have been developing a new strategy called 10 Crowns.

On February 2, the Japanese publisher and developer GungHo Online Entertainment published the results for the 2017 fiscal year. For the company, it ended much worse than the previous one. The main reason is the drop in revenue of the main title GungHo, the Puzzle & Dragons card battler, which entered the mobile market six years ago.

Square Enix will implement the “game-service” model in new single-player titles, said the company’s CEO Yosuke Matsuda. He clarified that he does not mean loot boxes and microtransactions.

Sales of the RimWorld space colonists simulator by the independent studio Ludeon Studios exceeded 1 million copies. The alpha version of the game was released in 2013, and since 2016 it has appeared in Steam early access.

In the first week after the release of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action, 1.2 million physical copies of the game were bought in Japan. This is 92% of the initial batch of discs sent by the publisher Capcom to stores.

The American branch of Nexon Gaming Corporation has laid off an unnamed number of employees.

Sony Corporation has reported on the results of the work of the gaming division of Sony’s Game&Network Services for the 3rd fiscal quarter of 2017. Over the past three months, the company has delivered fewer consoles, but compensated for this with a significant increase in game sales.

On February 13-14, the Czech capital will host the White Nights game development conference. On the first day, a round table will be held about the gaming user experience and interface. Editorial Office App2Top.ru offers to compose questions for the participants of the table. The authors of the best will receive a premium ticket.

On January 31, the Japanese publisher Konami summed up the financial results of the last three quarters. The period for the gaming division of the company ended in a good plus. A significant merit in this is PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER, the company’s football franchise.

Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai (Kazuo Hirai) is no longer the main person at Sony Corporation. Hirai handed over the position of CEO and president of the company to his deputy Kenichiro Yoshida.

On February 1, Finnish Supercell announced that it is investing $4.2 million in the British studio Trailmix. It was founded by former executives of the London office of King, who created Farm Heroes Saga. Trailmix plans to create games with a deep plot, but working on the frituplay model.

Microsoft reported an 8% increase in gaming business revenue for the last quarter of 2017. From October to December, the company earned $3.92 billion. The driver of the increase in revenue was the new Xbox One X console.

On February 1, after two years of work in the Moscow office of Game Insight, Ilya Eremeev took the position of executive producer in the investment division Mail.Ru Group.

On January 31, the Japanese publisher Capcom published the commercial results from April to December 2017. During this period, the publisher earned more on games than a year earlier. Both net sales and operating profit increased. Capcom explains the good performance with excellent sales of four titles.

In the new series of publications “School of Promotion” we analyze what is meant by the word “advertiser” when it comes to advertising mobile games and applications. Ilya Seregin, FeedWise project manager at Mobio, helps us with this.

January 29, British Retro Games Ltd. Together with the German gaming distributor Koch Media has resumed active promotion of the THEC64 Mini — a miniature version of the Commodore 64 home computer.

The Chinese publisher NetEase and the American toy manufacturer Mattel have created a video game development studio called Mattel163.