Loot boxes do not meet the legal definition of gambling. So it was considered in the gambling control department of the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) of the New Zealand government.

Unreal Engine Licensing Manager at Epic Games Alexey Savchenko told in detail App2Top.ru about the main events and trends of the outgoing year.

The Curators Connect feature has been launched on Steam, which allows game developers to send game keys to participants of the curated program without leaving the platform.

Report by Sergey Himmelreich from ARPU.GURU. The speaker spoke about the inextricable link between the game balance / economy and monetization and frequent errors in the balance of even successful projects.

Women are more active and enthusiastic mobile players than men. So says a joint study of the Google Play platform and the rating site Newzoo.

The Russian Olympic team will be able to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics under the national flag. However, we are talking only about the virtual version of international competitions presented in the Road to the Olympics add-on for Ubisoft’s Steep sports simulator.

More than 100 thousand gamers gathered simultaneously for the first time in the tactical shooter Rainbow Six: Siege on the Steam platform. Players set an attendance record after the release of the Operation White Noise add-on with a new map and characters.

41.7 million — such a number of copies of the Uncharted franchise games managed to sell Naughty Dog for 10 years of the series’ existence. Representatives of the studio announced this at the annual PlayStation Experience exhibition last weekend.

The development team of the “heroic” shooter LawBreakers studio Boss Key has lost one of the leaders. The co-founder of the company Arjan Brussi (Arjan Brussee) moved to Epic Games to work on a kind of “secret project”.

The executive director of Pixonic Igor Klyukin said App2Top.ru about how the outgoing year passed for him.

Before the New Year, we traditionally launch a series of materials “Results”. As part of the first and opening material, Nordcurrent co-founder Sergey Trofimov told how 2017 was for his company.

A report by Kirill Perevozchikov from Larian Studios. The speaker spoke about the ups and downs, about the lessons learned during the Divinity: Original Sin 2 marketing campaign. At the same time, the company had a limited budget of an indie team.

The capitalization of the Swedish mobile developer MAG Interactive according to the results of the IPO amounted to $ 137 million. MAG Interactive began the procedure of entering the stock exchange last week.

Fortnite continues to chase the success of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS. The number of users of the Epic Games network shooter has passed the 30 million mark, mainly due to the free “battle royale” mode Fortnite: Battle Royale.

The Swedish group of companies Stillfront Group acquired the German game studio Goodgame Studio for € 270 million.

On December 8, Los Angeles summed up the results of the annual Game Awards. The winner of the main “gaming Oscar” this year was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and its creator Nintendo is the leader in the number of nominations.

Report by Michael Haberl from Xendex. The speaker considered alternative app stores, how developers can successfully use them, as well as the market as a whole, players and business models.

The analytical site Steam Spy was cut off from the data of the Valve game store for unknown reasons. This was told by the creator of the service Sergey Galenkin on Twitter.

“It is impossible to pay (in Russia) either in Monopoly tokens or with money from World of Tanks,” said Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev. So he commented on the upcoming law on cryptocurrencies.