Lithuanian studio Nordcurrent admitted that it was “time for active growth and acquisitions” for it. She is looking not only for new employees, but also for new studios.

The annual turnover of the video game industry in Italy amounted to €1.43 billion. This is reported by the Association of Italian Video Game Developers (AESVI) with reference to data from the analytical company GSD and the mobile analytics service App Annie.

The developer of Clash Royale may be preparing a worldwide release of his latest game — Brawl Stars. Since March, the game has been deployed on iOS in Denmark, before that it was also launched in Finland, Sweden and Norway.

The analytical company Newzoo compared the performance of the largest streaming platforms Twitch and YouTube Gaming in the 1st quarter of 2018. Twitch leads by a margin in the main parameters, but in some indicators YouTube Gaming is catching up and even overtaking its competitor.

The team of the Lithuanian developer and publisher Nordcurrent is replenished. The company, famous for such box office hits as Cooking Fever and Sniper Arena, acquired the Odessa outsourcer Blam! Games Studios.

The social network Facebook is developing a new type of interactive ads. These are small demo versions of games that can be played directly in the news feed without preloading.

A report by Christopher Lefebvre from Tapdaq. The speaker presented the top five most suitable places for scrolling ads in mobile games, and also shared information on how each of them affects revenue, retention and other indicators.

Wargaming Alliance has announced the start of work with Mad Head Games, a Serbian studio that specializes in hidden object games. Judging by the first published art, the companies are working together on a new MOBA.

The creators of the Battlefield shooter series are testing the “battle royale” mode for the last part of Battlefield V. This was told to the Venture Beat edition by DICE studio employees on condition of anonymity.

German gaming publisher Kalypso Media has reported record revenues in fiscal year 2017. According to the company’s representatives, last year was the best in the 12-year history of Kalypso.

The French team Dontnod Entertainment, known for the games Remember Me and Life Is Strange, announced the registration of documents for the launch of the IPO. The studio’s management plans to raise money to develop cooperation with publishers and launch more ambitious games into production.

The mobile version of the Fortnite Battle Royale from Epic Games generated $25 million. This is reported by the Sensor Tower analytical platform.

The head of Bossa Studios, Henrique Olifiers, believes that the industry is using early access incorrectly. Developers are releasing almost finished games, while Oliphers wants to see more projects in early access at the initial stage of readiness.

Mike Wilson, a veteran of the gaming industry, believes that the corporate culture of large gaming companies is inhumane and harms their employees. Therefore, developers need their own trade union or a collective agreement with the employer.

The other day, App Annie published its index for March. With an eye on him, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales.

The Japanese mobile messenger developer company Line has introduced the Line Game Platform for mobile game creators. It will allow you to fight copycat games, analyzes user behavior and has a number of other features.

An update to Guns of Boom was released on April 17. In particular, for its promotion, the Game Insight developer company signed a contract with the star of the movie “Machete Kills” Danny Trejo.

In the next 4 years, the turnover from the sale of loot boxes and drawings of game skins will almost double and reach $ 50 billion. This is stated in the report of the analytical company Juniper Research.

After it became known that Roskomnadzor blocked 16 million IP addresses in pursuit of Telegram, information was received that games such as War Thunder, Fortnite and PUBG faced problems.