Wanted: a game writer at Nevosoft, a game designer at Herocraft and a leading traffic manager at Social Quantum.

With the help of events, the Photostrana social network was able to significantly raise the earnings of the internal development – the “Caramel” project. Anna Vyugina, product manager of the social network, shares her experience working on the game.

Unity Technologies has published a teaser interactive video Book of the Dead, demonstrating the technical capabilities of the new version of the engine — Unity 2018.

Epic Games summed up the results of the Unreal Dev Grants grant competition, in which 13 developers of games and content on the Unreal Engine shared more than $200 thousand among themselves.

The manufacturer of Lego constructors has teamed up with Tencent Corporation. The companies intend to cooperate in creating online games and social media for young Chinese citizens.

A psychological thriller about Japanese schoolgirls shows an excellent result on Steam. An anime game from an American developer has gathered an audience of 2 million players in four months.

The authors of Max Payne and Quantum Break from the Finnish studio Remedy admitted that the creation of high-budget game projects with an eye to a single game has become unaffordable for most developers.

Netmarble US CEO Simon Sim commented on the western release of Lineage 2: Revolution. According to him, especially a lot of organics came from Europe and Russia.

MTS has acquired the Gambit Esports club, Vedomosti reports.

Alexander Bogdanov, who led the St. Petersburg studio Game Insight and Nord Quantum, became the CEO of Minsk-based Belka Games, the developer of the Watchmaker.

The broadcast of the opening games of the debut season of the Overwatch League on January 10 on Twitch simultaneously gathered 425 thousand viewers.

The “battle royale” mode remains a reliable locomotive for the Fortnite MMO shooter. Thanks to him, the number of users of the game has grown by 10 million over the past month and reached 40 million players, and the peak of online gaming exceeded 2 million gamers, Eurogamer reported with reference to Epic Games.

Ubisoft and Tencent have become strategic partners. As part of the cooperation, Tencent will release a number of mobile titles of the Ubisoft subsidiary of Ketchapp Games publishing house in the Weixin version of the WeChat social network for the domestic market.

The success of the Nintendo Switch launch last year exceeded Nintendo‘s expectations. But the president of the company Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima) believes that the real tests for the Switch will begin in the second year of the console’s existence.

Transformers games have disappeared from digital stores. The reason is the expiration of the deal between the franchise owner Hasbro and the publisher Activision.

According to a Facebook study, 57% of mobile players who do not pay for disabling ads in mobile games agree to see it there and on, as long as the titles remain free.

The success of GTA V lasts almost 5 years in a row. The Rockstar Games hit took third place in sales of physical copies in 15 European countries in 2017, second only to FIFA 18 and Call of Duty: WWII.

Paradox Interactive acquired 33% of Seattle studio Hardsuite Labs for $2 million. Under the terms of the deal, Paradox may increase its ownership stake in Hardsuite Labs in the future.

PUBG Corp. And Xbox reported selling 3 million copies of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLE Royale for Xbox One in the first month after release, with 1 million copies sold out in the first 48 hours.