Wargaming company.Net has announced the liquidation of the Seattle Wargaming division, located in the city of Redmond near Seattle. The entire staff of the studio, where about 150 people worked, fell under the reduction.

Thanks to the release of the action adventure God of War, gamers in the United States spent $ 124 million more in April this year than a year earlier. The new God of War also helped sell the maximum number of PlayStation 4 consoles and games for this platform last month, according to the analytical company NPD Group.

More than 72% of all Android apps are potential violators of the new law on the protection of user data (GDPR), which will enter into force on the territory of the European Union in a few days. This was announced by the creators of the platform for mobile developers SafeDK.

The analytical platform Priori Data claims that iOS users are more loyal to mobile games than Android owners.

Electronic Arts Corporation acquired the Israeli division of GameFly for an undisclosed amount. Under the terms of the deal, EA received technical resources and personnel to maintain the streaming platform.

Wanted: a leading game designer at Kraft, a concept artist at ZAVOD Games and a leading Unity programmer at Game Garden.

California-based mobile developer Kixeye explained how the machine learning platform operates, the capabilities of which the company uses in its games.

One of the key speakers of the summer White Nights in St. Petersburg will be Valve. Jean-Peter Ewert, who is engaged in business development and legal issues of Steam, will speak at the conference on behalf of the company. We suggest coming up with questions for him. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the event.

A new game studio has appeared in Sweden — Neon Giant. It was founded by a group of developers, each of whom at one time had a hand in creating AAA action movies: from Gears of War and Far Cry 3 to Bulletstorm and Doom.

The PlayStation 4 console has entered the final phase of its life cycle. This was announced by the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment John Kodera at a reporting meeting with investors.

It took seven days for the pixel “bagel” Stoneshard to get $30 thousand on the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. Thanks to this, it became possible to release it as part of early access on Steam this year.

Hi-Rez Studios got into an awkward situation: in the promo materials of its new mobile game Paladins Strike, users noticed a fragment of art from Blizzard’s heroic Overwatch shooter. At the same time, Hi-Rez Studios’ flagship title — heroic shooter Paladins — openly imitates the style and gameplay of Overwatch.

Epic Games has announced its readiness to sponsor Fortnite online action movie tournaments. They will be held in 2018-2019, and the prize fund of the competitions will be $ 100 million.

Capcom publishing is porting the horror thriller Resident Evil 7 to the Nintendo Switch hybrid console. But the port will be unusual – instead of the whole game, gamers will download a small client through which the title will be broadcast from the cloud on their console. For the first time, the game will be available only in Japan.

The multiplayer survival thriller Conan Exiles has again made it into the top ten games with the largest simultaneous audience on Steam. On May 13, Conan gathered more than 49 thousand gamers online.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has acquired a controlling stake in the New Zealand studio Grinding Gear Games, known for its free-to-play role-playing online action movie Path of Exile.

The developer of the online action movie Titanfall studio Respawn Entertainment has a frame leak. Since the beginning of last year, 7 people have left the company to work in the Infinity Ward team, known for the Call of Duty franchise.

Mobile developer and publisher Gameloft reported for the 1st quarter of 2018. The company reported a 13.4% decrease in revenue compared to last year. The drop in revenue is due to the fact that the company did not have a single release in the first three months of this year.

The Chinese developer and publisher Netease increased operating expenses by 75% in the 1st quarter of fiscal year 2018. The increased expenses of the company are associated with the development and publication of new games for the PC platform, for which Netease has big plans.