A report by Alexander Pavlov and Pavel Kazimirenko from IQeon. The speakers talked about their gaming platform, which allows players to earn money on their achievements.

The founder of Zynga, Mark Pincus, has exchanged his shares of the company with high voting rights for ordinary shares. Because of this, Pinkus’ voting rights as a Zynga shareholder were reduced from 70% to 10%.

Sensor Tower analytical platform named PUBG Mobile’s “battle royale” by Tencent the world leader in downloads among mobile games in the first quarter of 2018. This is reported in the company’s report.

Unity Technologies has released a new version of the popular Unity game engine — 2018.1. The update introduces new tools for working with graphics, physics, creating three-dimensional models and animation.

In 2018, Russian users will download mobile games over 2 billion times. According to the number of game downloads on mobile, Russia will take the 5th place in the world. This is stated in the forecast of the analytical company App Annie.

The Instant Games platform of the Facebook social network has been accepting applications for adding IAP to games since May 7. Developers will be allowed to earn from the platform in a traditional way for the industry.

Wanted: producer in Playrix, bizdev in Pixonic and ASO-optimizer in PlayFlock.

The management of Nintendo is dissatisfied with the performance of its mobile games. This was announced by the president of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima).

Arrest and $5.1 million fine — this is how the Chinese police are fighting the distributors of cheat programs for the “royal battle” of PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUND. On April 25, Chinese authorities detained 15 people on suspicion of creating and selling hacking programs for a popular online action movie.

Newzoo has published a forecast for the games market for this year. The company’s experts believe that the revenue from the games by the end of 2018 will amount to $ 137.9 billion. This is 13.3% more than the industry earned last year.

The Chinese IT giant expects to increase its stake in Bluehole to 11.5%. Now Tencent is considering the possibility of outbidding the developer’s shares from venture funds for $ 468 million.

The head of games at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, said that in the near future the company does not plan to develop its own game in the battle royale genre.

The development team from Oulu — Fingersoft — recently celebrated a new milestone. Her series of games about overcoming roller coasters on Hill Climb Racing cars began to have more than a billion downloads.

The Sensor Tower analytical platform has studied the impact of different features in the App Store gaming section in iOS 11 on title downloads. It turned out that promotion through features increases the installation of the game up to 450%.

The creators of the free-play MOBA action movie Super Monday Night Club decided to close the project. It turned out to be unprofitable for Uber Entertainment to support the game after the entry into force of the GDPR — the regulation on the protection of user data, which will begin to operate in the European Union from May 25.

Artist and designer Charles Zembillas admitted that he was disappointed with Activision publishing. The company did not inform him about the upcoming remaster of the Spyro The Dragon platformer, although it was he who created the main character and other characters of the original series.

The independent analytical resource Steam Spy has introduced a new feature — the service has a database of developers and publishers of video games on Steam.

Ken Wong, the leading designer of the mobile indie hit Monument Valley and creator of the interactive novella Florence, believes that frituplay is not a prerequisite for a successful mobile game. In his opinion, people are ready to buy high-quality titles.

As part of White Nights Prague 2018, Sjoerd De Jong from Epic Games demonstrated how it is possible to quickly create a cinematic video on the Unreal Engine.