The main exclusive Sony PlayStation 4 of last year noted yesterday Birthday. The game is a year old. During this time, the number of copies sold reached 7.6 million.

Crytek Founder Djevat Yerli is no longer CEO or president of the company. He put the leadership in the hands of his younger brothers – Avni Yerli and Farouk Yerli.

The French gaming company Ubisoft has acquired a local studio 1492 Studio, known for a series of episodic dating simulators Is It Love? for mobile platforms.

March 1 Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has published a financial report. It covers both the last quarter of last year and the whole year. The company’s revenues from MMO games for both periods increased year-on-year again. Their biggest games Mail.Ru The Group calls Warface and War Robots.

Last Thursday, Hunt: Showdown came out in early access. This is a new game from the German Crytek studio. In less than a week, the audience of the game reached 100 thousand players. We talk about the project, its features and the first indicators.

The American company Zynga has published a puzzle Rangoli Rekha: Color Match in India. The official launch was preceded by a softlonch, which lasted from August last year. Rangoli Rekha is aimed at Indian users: it was developed by a local studio, and the design of the game uses elements of the country’s cultural heritage.

The French mobile publisher Gameloft is gradually changing the business development model. The growth of revenue from the sale of titles is slowing down, so the company’s interests have focused on increasing revenue from the advertising segment and producing more casual titles.

The story around the new “Corsairs” has taken an unexpected turn. Director Mail.Ru Games Ventures Ilya Karpinsky said in his Facebook post that his fund is ready to invest $ 1 million in the development of the game. However, to do this, developers will need to create a prototype of the game.

On February 27, the analytical company SuperData published a traditional monthly report on sales of games distributed in numbers. It says that users spent $8.9 billion on games in the first month of 2018.

The independent Association of European game publishers Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) has started keeping official records of digital copies of video games sold along with retail. France became the pilot territory for the implementation of the project.

The Khronos Group company, with the support of Valve, LunarG and The Brenwill Workshop, has released the MoltenVK game development platform. It fully supports the Vulkan graphical API on iOS and macOS operating systems.

Wanted: an art manager at Playrix, a motion designer at G5 Games and a novice level designer at Nevosoft.

The creators of the mobile indie platformer Alto’s Adventure named the reason why the game was released on Android using the frituplay model, and the iOS version is sold for $ 5. According to creative director Ryan Cash, Android smartphones are much more affordable than Apple devices, and their users often do not have money for games.

In the German Wooga again layoffs. The company has decided to focus on the development of games with a plot and, in this regard, is conducting a complete restructuring.

The H1Z1 multiplayer shooter has left 91% of players, and the number of online gamers has fallen from a peak of 150 thousand to 9 thousand. This is reported by the rating service GitHyp.

On February 26, Rusbase released a voluminous interview with Alexey Grigorkin, one of the authors of the Sandbox Coloring game, whose total downloads reached 30 million, and estimated monthly income is $ 2 million. App2Top.ru publishes a short retelling of the material.

The analytical company SuperData presented a forecast of the development of the virtual and augmented reality industry in the next 3 years. According to him, by 2021, VR games will generate $3.3 billion. Revenues of virtual reality titles for 2017 amounted to $306 million.

The creator of the St. Petersburg office of Nival, Peter Prokhorenko, now works at Alternativa Games (formerly AlternativaPlatform). He became the product director of a company known for the MMO action movie “Tanks Online”.

Google has released the final version of the ARCore devkit, designed for the development of augmented reality applications.