The Japanese corporation Bandai Namco officially closed the 2017 fiscal year (ended March 31 of this year). The company ended the reporting period on the rise — both total revenues and revenue of the Network Entertainment segment, which includes video games, increased.

Steam expands the possibilities for remote playback of games and videos. From the second half of May, users of the Valve platform will be able to play titles and watch videos from their libraries on mobile devices through the Steam Link and Steam Video applications.

Wanted: art producer at G5, leading community manager at Playkot, programmer at MyTona, and bizdev at Nekki.

The update for Google’s Chrome browser caused unforeseen difficulties for developers and gamers. After the update in Chrome, the sound stopped working in some browser games created on HTML5.

Conan Exiles, the developer and publisher of the MMO survival, the Norwegian studio Funcom, announced that the game had sold over 1 million copies by the date of its official release. Conan Exile officially launched today, May 8th.

Canadian scientists from Queens University have found out what spoils the impression of video games. It turned out that bad game design annoys players the most when the gameplay is not exciting and makes them bored.

The creators of the free-play action movie Loadout from the Edge of Reality studio have announced the imminent end of the project. The reason was the new regulation on user data protection (GDPR) for EU countries. Edge of Reality said that adjusting the game to the GDPR requirements would cost them too much, so it’s easier to close Loadout.

In the next 5 years, the Chinese mobile games market will maintain and strengthen its global leadership. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, by 2022 the number of gamers in China will exceed 1 billion people, and mobile games will generate more than half of all gaming revenue.

Report by Eldar Alizadeh from UPP. The speaker talked about what to pay attention to when creating a trailer for the game so that it attracts users.

The British game publisher Team17 has announced preparations to enter the London Stock Exchange this month. According to the preliminary assessment of the company itself, its market value of the company will be from £200 to £230 million.

The role-playing action movie Monster Hunter: World continues to sell well. The developer and publisher of the game, Capcom, announced that in total, 7.9 million copies of the game were delivered to stores and sold digitally.

The authors of the three-in-a-row “Watchmaker” announced the joining of the mobile studio Leda Games. The most famous project of the latter is the three—in-a-row “Knitted Story” with more than 500 thousand installations on Google Play.

Awem Games, founded in Mogilev, known for the three-in-a-row Cradle of Empires, received a business development director. He became 32-year-old Timofey Fadeev, who was previously responsible for a similar area in the advertising startup BuzzGuru and the Chinese studio IGG, known for games such as Castle Clash and Lords Mobile.

The gloomy first-person shooter Desolate has surpassed the mark of 100 thousand copies sold on the Valve platform. According to its publisher HypeTrain Digital, this has made the game the most successful Russian Steam release so far this year.

Jeffries financial company has estimated the developer and publisher of Epic Games video games at $ 4.5 billion. Jefferies analyst Timothy O’Shea told Reuters.

The revenues of the mobile version of Fortnite’s “battle royale” for iOS exceeded $50 million. The game took a little more than 1.5 months to earn this amount, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. Fortnite was released on iOS on March 15.

A report by Viktor Bocan from Warhorse Studios. The speaker spoke about why Warhorse Studios decided to make a realistic medieval RPG and forgot about dragons.

The author of the script of the Japanese film “The Battle Royale” Kenta Fukasaku (Kenta Fukasaku) became a consultant to the Chinese mobile developer and publisher NetEase. Fukasaku helps the company develop the mobile online action movie Knives Out.

The Humble Bundle company has prepared a set of content with games and assets for Crytek’s CRYENGINE game engine. Traditionally, buyers have several versions of the set available, differing in price and content.