On February 13-14, the Czech capital will host the White Nights game development conference. On the first day, a round table will be held about the gaming user experience and interface. Editorial Office App2Top.ru offers to compose questions for the participants of the table. The authors of the best will receive a premium ticket.

On January 31, the Japanese publisher Konami summed up the financial results of the last three quarters. The period for the gaming division of the company ended in a good plus. A significant merit in this is PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER, the company’s football franchise.

Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai (Kazuo Hirai) is no longer the main person at Sony Corporation. Hirai handed over the position of CEO and president of the company to his deputy Kenichiro Yoshida.

On February 1, Finnish Supercell announced that it is investing $4.2 million in the British studio Trailmix. It was founded by former executives of the London office of King, who created Farm Heroes Saga. Trailmix plans to create games with a deep plot, but working on the frituplay model.

Microsoft reported an 8% increase in gaming business revenue for the last quarter of 2017. From October to December, the company earned $3.92 billion. The driver of the increase in revenue was the new Xbox One X console.

On February 1, after two years of work in the Moscow office of Game Insight, Ilya Eremeev took the position of executive producer in the investment division Mail.Ru Group.

On January 31, the Japanese publisher Capcom published the commercial results from April to December 2017. During this period, the publisher earned more on games than a year earlier. Both net sales and operating profit increased. Capcom explains the good performance with excellent sales of four titles.

In the new series of publications “School of Promotion” we analyze what is meant by the word “advertiser” when it comes to advertising mobile games and applications. Ilya Seregin, FeedWise project manager at Mobio, helps us with this.

January 29, British Retro Games Ltd. Together with the German gaming distributor Koch Media has resumed active promotion of the THEC64 Mini — a miniature version of the Commodore 64 home computer.

The Chinese publisher NetEase and the American toy manufacturer Mattel have created a video game development studio called Mattel163.

From the beginning of April to the end of December 2017, Nintendo earned $7.8 billion. This is stated in the company’s financial report for the three quarters of 2017.

Electronic Arts re-activates microtransactions in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. This was confirmed by the company’s management.

Wanted: the head of the user purchase department at Nekki, a game designer at KamaGames Studio and an analyst of game updates at Kefir!.

The analytical company SuperData has published a large-scale study of the video game market by the end of 2017 (excluding retail). The main figures and facts are in our material.

Producer and co-founder of Bobaka Alexander Nasonov left the company. He headed a new gaming startup company, GROSSING.GAMES.

Microsoft announced the purchase of the PlayFab cloud service. It offers tools for developing, launching and analyzing games that work with cloud data.

Ubisoft has canceled a planned increase in the price tag for the online shooter Rainbow Six: Siege due to user dissatisfaction.

Hyper Light Drifter producer and designer Teddy Dief is returning to indie development. He decided to leave the Montreal division of Square Enix after the cancellation of his new project.

The Playtika social casino factory has announced the launch of a new division – Playtika Growth Investments. It is going to invest up to $400 million in companies from Israel that are engaged in entertainment or consumer-oriented business.