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Industry February 4, 2019

Kefir: “Developers don’t really care what city they are in”

Maria Pestrikova, Managing partner of the company, told about interviews, work with personnel within the company and processes in Kefir in a short interview.

Industry February 1, 2019

Release of the Day: Wargroove — media reaction and sales forecast

On February 1, Wargroove was released. This is a turn-based tactical strategy game for PC, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. We talk about the first reaction to the game in the press and share the sales forecast.

Industry February 1, 2019

PS4 quarterly sales fell to 8.1 million units, but Sony is still waiting for a record annual profit

Sony has shared the results of the third fiscal quarter of 2018. According to them, for the full fiscal year Sony can get a record profit from its gaming segment.

Industry February 1, 2019

Epic Games will add reviews to its store. And will allow developers to disable them if necessary

Epic Games is working hard on a system of user reviews for its store. This was announced on Twitter by the head of the company Tim Sweeney (Tim Sweenee).

Industry February 1, 2019

Anthem has become a tool for EA to promote its subscription services

Electronic Arts has published a schedule of access to Anthem, a BioWare game service. Judging by it, EA expects to accustom users to subscribe to its services.

Industry February 1, 2019

Nintendo is developing a new mobile project not with DeNA, but with LINE

Nintendo has a new mobile partner. The company announced that it is developing and launching its next game for iOS and Android not with DeNA, but with LINE.

Industry February 1, 2019

Ofcom: 75% of children in the UK are attracted to online games

What kind of relationships do UK children have with online games, Ofcom analysts said in their report.

Industry February 1, 2019

The founder of Kanobu became the operational manager of Igromania

Haji Mahtiyev, who launched Kanobu and RAWG, announced that from the first of February he will become the operational manager of the gaming site “Igromania”.

Industry January 31, 2019

Netmarble has set its sights on buying Nexon. To do this, she will create a consortium of South Korean companies

The publisher ArcheAge and Dragon Nest were put up for sale in mid-January.

Industry January 31, 2019

Phoenix Labs will transfer Dauntless from its own client to the Epic Games Store

The studio will close its client by the end of the year.

Industry January 31, 2019

Role – playing Operencia: The Stolen Sun left Steam for Epic Games Store

Another game has passed under the wing of Epic Games store, where the publisher is offered an 88% share of sales.

Conferences January 31, 2019

Contest: ask a question to the monetization round table and win a premium ticket to White Nights in Berlin

As part of the February White Nights Berlin 2019, several round tables will be held. One of them is dedicated to the latest trends in the monetization of mobile games. We invite you to ask the participants questions. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Industry January 31, 2019

Microsoft boasted record gaming revenue in the last fiscal quarter

The quarter ended on December 31, 2018.

Industry January 30, 2019

GameRefinery has published an overview of the mobile RPG market

How much mobile role-playing games earn in the USA, China and Japan, and which subgenres are the most successful, GameRefinery experts tell. App2Top offers a brief squeeze of their mobile RPG market research.

Industry January 30, 2019

Unity acquired Vivox, the creator of voice chat for Fortnite and PUBG

Vivox will continue to operate independently as a subsidiary of Unity.

Industry January 30, 2019

Electronic Arts backed down before the Belgian authorities

The publisher will remove the loot boxes from the Belgian version of FIFA.

Industry January 29, 2019

NetEase bought a stake in Quantic Dream

We are talking about a minority package.

Vacancies January 29, 2019

Vacancies of the week (January 29)

Wanted: applied mathematician at Banzai Games, community director at LightMap and lead designer three-in-a-row at Playrix.

Industry January 29, 2019

Metacritic named the most highly rated publishers of 2018

Aggregator Metacritic has compiled a rating of the best “large” and “medium” video game publishers.* The places in the top were distributed based on the press ratings of the 2018 games.

Industry January 29, 2019

Atomic Heart developers talked about crunches and mass layoffs in Mundfish

After the release of the Atomic Heart gameplay video, a shooter from Mundfish, information appeared that in reality the game looks worse than on video, and the gameplay is a montage. To find out if this is true, the author of the Telegram channel “Game Dev that we deserve” talked with 10 former and current employees of Mundfish.