WebMoney Transfer and PayMaster have published data on the dynamics of the Russian desktop market of MMO games for December-February. Compared to last year, the turnover fell, but the average check grew by a quarter. It amounted to 846 rubles ($14.8).

The French mobile publisher Gameloft continues to close foreign offices. A month ago, the company liquidated a branch in New Orleans, and recently it became known about the termination of the work of the division in Madrid.

Wanted: Maya is a 3D animator at Banzai Games, an augmented reality programmer at Azur Games and the head of traffic procurement at Kraft.

The creators of Clicker Clicker Heroes and Clicker Heroes 2 from the Playsaurus studio faced patent trolling. GTX Corp. she accused the developers of violating the patent for the use of virtual currency. According to GTX Corp., the mechanics of virtual currency cannot be applied without their permission.

On March 6, Kongregate published the announcement of its own PC game store. It’s called Kartridge. The creators of the service position the novelty as a gaming platform that will be managed by the gaming community.

The analytical company Apptopia drew attention to the income of mobile games in the genre of “interactive novella”. According to researchers, the 7 most downloaded titles in this category generated more than $14 million on in-game purchases by users only in the United States.

The GameSparks gaming platform has officially confirmed its transition to Amazon ownership, writing about it in its blog. Rumors about the purchase of GameSparks by the American Internet corporation have been going around since July last year.

Report by Leszek Szczepanski from Guerrilla Games. The speaker spoke about how their small team created an AAA role-playing project with the open world Horizon Zero Dawn.

The Finnish company Rovio has closed a branch in the capital of the UK and dismissed its staff of 7 people. The London office lasted a little over a year.

In the first days of March 2016, the first episode of One Day in London, the OWL-studio image project, was released on Steam. Vera Velichko, founder and art director of the Moscow studio, before the release of the fifth episode, recalls how the mechanics in her visual novel developed.

Capcom publishing house called the sales of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action the best in its history. Since the game’s release on January 26, Capcom has shipped 7.5 million copies of the game to stores and provided digital downloads on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Video interview with Timur Haussila from Supercell. Timur told how Supercell is preparing projects for release, and what difficulties the team is facing.

The game industry of the United Kingdom was estimated at £5.1 billion at the end of 2017. The annual growth was 12.4%, and the sales of consoles and gaming PCs became the driver of the industry. This is stated in the report of the British Association of video game developers Ukie.

Square Enix announced a personnel reorganization of the board of directors. The new board includes developers who participated in the creation of a number of flagship tiles of the company.

The head of the gaming division and executive vice president of Rovio Wilhelm Taht (Wilhelm Taht) left the post without explanation. His departure was preceded by a record drop in the company’s shares, which was announced a week earlier.

Ubisoft has acquired the independent game studio Blue Mammoth Games. Together with her, the company acquired the rights to the free-play online fighting game Brawlhalla, which managed to gain popularity on PC and PlayStation 4.

The number of players in Ubisoft’s MMO action game The Division continues to grow two years after its release. At the beginning of March, the project’s gaming audience crossed the threshold of 20 million players on all platforms. The game is available on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

A report by Stephen Jarrett from King. The speaker spoke about how the company inspires game designers to create cool products.

In February, former iLogos CEO Elena Lobova launched the ACHIEVERS HUB service. Its task is to support indie developers. We are talking about both assistance in expert evaluation, marketing, and in finding investors or publishers. Editor App2Top.ru Alexander Semenov talked to Elena about her career in industry, management and, of course, a new beginning.