In the next 5 years, the Chinese mobile games market will maintain and strengthen its global leadership. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, by 2022 the number of gamers in China will exceed 1 billion people, and mobile games will generate more than half of all gaming revenue.

Report by Eldar Alizadeh from UPP. The speaker talked about what to pay attention to when creating a trailer for the game so that it attracts users.

The British game publisher Team17 has announced preparations to enter the London Stock Exchange this month. According to the preliminary assessment of the company itself, its market value of the company will be from £200 to £230 million.

The role-playing action movie Monster Hunter: World continues to sell well. The developer and publisher of the game, Capcom, announced that in total, 7.9 million copies of the game were delivered to stores and sold digitally.

The authors of the three-in-a-row “Watchmaker” announced the joining of the mobile studio Leda Games. The most famous project of the latter is the three—in-a-row “Knitted Story” with more than 500 thousand installations on Google Play.

Awem Games, founded in Mogilev, known for the three-in-a-row Cradle of Empires, received a business development director. He became 32-year-old Timofey Fadeev, who was previously responsible for a similar area in the advertising startup BuzzGuru and the Chinese studio IGG, known for games such as Castle Clash and Lords Mobile.

The gloomy first-person shooter Desolate has surpassed the mark of 100 thousand copies sold on the Valve platform. According to its publisher HypeTrain Digital, this has made the game the most successful Russian Steam release so far this year.

Jeffries financial company has estimated the developer and publisher of Epic Games video games at $ 4.5 billion. Jefferies analyst Timothy O’Shea told Reuters.

The revenues of the mobile version of Fortnite’s “battle royale” for iOS exceeded $50 million. The game took a little more than 1.5 months to earn this amount, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. Fortnite was released on iOS on March 15.

A report by Viktor Bocan from Warhorse Studios. The speaker spoke about why Warhorse Studios decided to make a realistic medieval RPG and forgot about dragons.

The author of the script of the Japanese film “The Battle Royale” Kenta Fukasaku (Kenta Fukasaku) became a consultant to the Chinese mobile developer and publisher NetEase. Fukasaku helps the company develop the mobile online action movie Knives Out.

The Humble Bundle company has prepared a set of content with games and assets for Crytek’s CRYENGINE game engine. Traditionally, buyers have several versions of the set available, differing in price and content.

Mike Rose, founder of the independent game publisher No more robots, believes that many indie developers expect the impossible from the sales of their games on Steam. For example, they seriously expect to sell 1.3 million copies in the first month.

A report by Kate Edwards from Geogrify. During her 25-year career in gaming, Kate has witnessed the development of the gaming industry, which has become a real cultural and economic force in a global society.

Activision Blizzard Gaming Corporation reported record revenue in the 1st quarter of 2018. The company earned $1.97 billion and received $500 million in net profit.

Russian IT Corporation Mail.Ru The Group reported for the first quarter of this year. Revenue from the company’s MMO games increased by 28.5% compared to last year and amounted to ₽5.12 billion ($80.8 million).

Since November last year, the Belarusian studio Belka Games has been headed by Alexander Bogdanov. Prior to that, he launched the Social Quantum, Game Insight and Playrix gaming divisions in St. Petersburg. Editor App2Top.ru Alexander Semenov talked with Bogdanov about his path to the industry, the development of X-Mercs and the reasons for the transition to Belka Games.

Google has confirmed the existence of the Arcade gaming startup, which develops mobile social games.

Hong Kong-based mobile developer and publisher Animoca Brands has reported earnings for the 1st quarter of 2018. The company earned $ 3.4 million, its revenues increased by 54.5% compared to last year. Financial success in Animoca was explained by the indicators of a new game in the genre of tower defense Crazy Defense Heroes.