Google has opened the Google Maps navigation service API for game developers. Game creators will be able to use Google Maps resources for their projects using geolocation data.

The international operator of social casinos KamaGames reported on the results of 2017. Mobile blackjack Blackjack 21: Blackjackist became the driver of revenue growth.

A large video game outsourcing firm Virtuos has received $15 million in investments. The company will direct financing for business development. Virtuos participated in the work on Horizon Zero Dawn, L. A. Noir and other large-scale projects.

Epic Games has released a version of the Unreal Engine 4.19 game engine. It contains a number of new features that simplify the creation of AR applications, offer additional options for adjusting image detail and contain many other features.

On March 14, the social network Facebook announced that any team can now develop and publish projects on its HTML5 platform of instant games. No more closed favorites list.

The Fortnite Battle Royale freeplay mode received a powerful promotion on Twitch after hip-hop star Drake joined the game. The famous musician became the hero of the broadcast of the streamer Tyler Blevins (Tyler Blevins). 607 thousand people watched their game at the same time — more than ever in the history of Twitch.

Dmitry Lyapin ‘s report from Zorka.Mobi . The speaker shared the secrets of cooperation with well-known bloggers, told about the company’s experience Zorka.Mobi in the field of working with influencers from different regions.

What does an advertising publisher do, how to work with him and what they are, — he tells Tatiana Seregina, Publisher Manager FeedWise at Mobio.

The Californian company Jam City has acquired the mobile studio Brainz, located in Colombia. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

The revenues of the Singapore studio IGG in 2017 amounted to $603 million. The revenue driver was the mobile role-playing MMO game Lords Mobile. Last year, the fritupley title generated from $30 to $51 million per month.

App Annie has published an index of the most downloaded mobile games for February. Thanks to him, it turned out that Novosibirsk-based Naxeex is slightly inferior to Vivendi and Activision Blizzard in monthly user installations with Android.

On March 13, the analytical company App Annie summed up the results of the gaming industry over the past year. She posted a presentation online about the general state of affairs in the market. We have identified 8 main facts.

The free-play MMO action game Warframe by the Canadian studio Digital Extreme turns 5 years old in a week. During the existence of the game, more than 38 million players have registered in it, the developers said.

Google has announced an open source project called Agones. It is designed to host multiplayer game servers.

Owners of a paid account on the Twitch stream platform will be able to receive a set of PC games on a monthly basis. The Free Games With Prime offer is free of charge and will come into force on March 15.

Round table about UX/UI design. Speakers from Obsidian Entertainment, Remedy Entertainment, SYBO and tinyBuild discussed the main processes in UX/UI design, the problems faced by specialists, as well as favorite chips in UX/UI.

Wanted: ASO is a specialist at DevGame Studio, a leading game designer at Playkot and a tester at Social Quantum.

The developers of the popular PvP shooter PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have purchased the MadGlory game service. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The first project of UBG Corp. and MadGlory will be a portal for developers of gaming add-ons for PUBG.

The number of employees at the headquarters of the Australian studio Halfbrick Studios decreased by 30 people as a result of a large-scale reduction. This is reported by Cnet, citing internal sources.