Facebook is developing its own platform for game streaming. As part of this, the company officially launched the Gaming Creator Pilot Program. The goal of the program is to attract new creators of gaming video content to Facebook and help them gain an audience.

Among the most popular iOS search queries in December in the USA are Deer Hunter 2018 and Pixel Gun 3D. However, the leader is a request for Belarusian Pixel Art.

Deliveries of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action have become the best in the history of the franchise. In the first three days, Capcom sent over 5 million copies to stores and sold them in numbers.

“Faster does not mean worse,” says independent developer Jake Birkett, speaking about the timing of the creation of video games.

On February 1, a White Nights meetup will take place in Berlin with the participation of King and Wooga. We suggest that its participants come up with questions. The authors of the best questions will be awarded premium tickets to the Prague White Nights session.

How does the founder of the game design blog Deconstructor of Fun and a veteran of mobile development look at the profession of a product manager?

Blizzard will search for “toxic” gamers in Overwatch by videos on YouTube and other social media. Having identified a rude and aggressive player, the developer can restrict the operation of his account without waiting for a complaint from other players.

The Russian Foundation for the Development of Internet Initiatives (FII) will undertake investment in the games market. He will start with esports.

Sometimes the lack of a budget and a lot of experience gives rise to brilliant ideas. The artist Dead Cells has figured out how to create animations for pixel games using 3d cheaply and quickly.

Founder of the independent studio Scared Square Games and game design teacher Stuart Lilford named 5 common mistakes of novice game designers. And he told me how to fix them.

After the failure of RAID: World War 2, Swedish Starbreeze Studios sold 20 million of its shares worth $ 30 million.

The MAU of streamers on the YouTube Gaming platform increased by 343% in 2017. This is reported by the analytical company Streamlabs in the report on the state of the gaming stream industry for the 4th quarter of last year.

The authors of Pokerist decided to publish in India. KamaGames has announced the launch of a new Poker Champions game created specifically for the Indian audience.

Every additional dollar spent on G5 and Glu Mobile advertising in 2017 brought companies an additional $4 in sales.

American researchers have found out how game designers depict drugs in video games. And what role they play in the gameplay.

The creator of the Twisted Metal and God of War franchises, David Jaffe, announced the cancellation of a project that his studio, The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency, was working on. He also announced the dismissal of most of the employees of the gaming division.

The other day, App Annie pleased with a retrospective report on the mobile market for 2017. A separate chapter in the report is devoted to games. We have highlighted the most important of it.

The project manager of Final Fantasy XV, Hajime Tabata, became interested in the use of AI and procedural generation in game design. He plans to implement these developments in the next game.

Tomorrow Corporation has announced a new puzzle game 7 Billion Humans. The indie studio is known for such games as World of Goo, Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine.