The creator of the Twisted Metal and God of War franchises, David Jaffe, announced the cancellation of a project that his studio, The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency, was working on. He also announced the dismissal of most of the employees of the gaming division.

The other day, App Annie pleased with a retrospective report on the mobile market for 2017. A separate chapter in the report is devoted to games. We have highlighted the most important of it.

The project manager of Final Fantasy XV, Hajime Tabata, became interested in the use of AI and procedural generation in game design. He plans to implement these developments in the next game.

Tomorrow Corporation has announced a new puzzle game 7 Billion Humans. The indie studio is known for such games as World of Goo, Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine.

Atari intends to release the RollerCoaster Tycoon economic strategy on the Nintendo Switch. To do this, the company launched a crowdfunding company. Atari expects to raise from $10 thousand to $1 million on it.

Anthem‘s online action game could decide the future of BioWare. If the project fails, Electronic Arts is able to disband the company’s offices in Austin and Edmonton. This is stated in the column of Kotaku editor-in-chief Jason Schreier.

We analyze what is meant by the word “offer” when it comes to advertising mobile games and applications. Helps us in this Ilya Seregin, project manager at Mobio.

Loot boxes are the most unpopular business model for games. But she also has adherents. This is stated in the report of the annual Game Developer Conference. According to him, 1 out of 10 developers is ready to monetize their title by selling loot boxes.

Ubisoft is not afraid of the anger of gamers. The company gave the go-ahead to add loot boxes to Ghost Recon: Wildlands. They will appear in the shooter until the end of January.

The Unity team wants it to be easier for developers to work with the engine. This is hinted at by the Unity Hub release. The tool allows you to select the version of the engine to work with.

SuperData adjusted the market figures for last December. It turned out to be fruitful. Gamers spent $10 billion on games.

The developers of the popular online action game PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have promised to send donations totaling $2 million to various charitable organizations by the end of 2018.

The Project Horseshoe research group presented a report on the ethical side of video game monetization. The researchers have prepared a set of recommendations, following which developers will be able to make money on users without tricks and deception.

At White Nights in Prague, one of the guests will be Jefferson Valadares, CEO of Bandai Namco in the USA. We suggest coming up with a question for him. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Wanted: senior server programmer in the former Moscow office of Glu Mobile, head of marketing analytics at Game Insight and head of the traffic buying team at Wargaming.

The gaming blockchain platform of PHRI graduates sold $1.3 million worth of tokens in a month. Its authors, who are not yet thirty, are sure that in the next six months the figure will be much higher.

The Indian mobile publishing house Nazara Technologies continues to buy up local companies. The next acquisition of Nazara was the esports company Nodwin Gaming.

Is the subscription the future? Xbox Game Pass subscription holders will be able to play not only the old multiplatform titles in the near future, but also the latest exclusives from Microsoft Studios, starting from the day of their release.

The creators of the “battle royale” PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have announced the expansion of the development team of their game project. Next month, a division of PUBG Corp. South Korean publisher Bluehole will open an office in Amsterdam.