The head of Activision Publishing, Eric Hirshberg, announced his imminent departure from the company. Hirschberg will not renew the contract with the company, which expires on March 31 this year.

The NPD Group company spoke about the success of the US gaming market in 2017. According to researchers, sales on the gaming market increased by 11% and reached $14.59 billion.

Two years after the successful Kickstarter campaign, Camelot Unchained developers received an additional $7.5 million. The funds were received in exchange for a stake in their company, City State Entertainment.

The analytical company Flurry Analytics has prepared an annual report on the trends of the global market of mobile devices and applications. According to the study, in 2017, the duration of sessions in mobile games for 2017 decreased by 16%.

Matt Booty became vice president of Microsoft Studios— the gaming division of the IT corporation. Previously, Bootie was responsible for the development of the Minecraft franchise, and now he has taken over the post of Phil Spencer, who was promoted last fall.

Fox Media Corporation has acquired Cold Iron Studios to work on the Alien franchise shooter for PC and consoles. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

On the evening of January 17, Rovio announced that the installations of all its games, including the Angry Birds series of projects, amount to 4 billion. The last time the company boasted of cumulative downloads was four years ago. Then the number of downloads of her games was 2 billion.

What you should remember when you are going to show the project to the publisher, – Elena Devina, marketing director of CreaGames, tells in her note.

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Nintendo has announced the release of Labo designer kits compatible with the Nintendo Switch console. Labo parts are mainly made of cardboard.

According to the French publication Le Monde, the budget for the development of the Detroit: Become Human adventure game studio Quantic Dream is € 30 million.

The creator of the Wasteland series has announced the opening of a digital online store Robot Cache with calculations in both standard currencies and its own cryptocurrency called Iron.

Disney Corporation announced the “relaunch” of its gaming strategy and the formation of new relationships with partners in the creation of video games.

Over the past year, Russians spent 5 billion rubles on the purchase of discs with games. That’s how much it took to purchase 2 million copies of games for consoles and 0.25 million games for PC.

Wanted: a game writer at Nevosoft, a game designer at Herocraft and a leading traffic manager at Social Quantum.

With the help of events, the Photostrana social network was able to significantly raise the earnings of the internal development – the “Caramel” project. Anna Vyugina, product manager of the social network, shares her experience working on the game.

Unity Technologies has published a teaser interactive video Book of the Dead, demonstrating the technical capabilities of the new version of the engine — Unity 2018.

Epic Games summed up the results of the Unreal Dev Grants grant competition, in which 13 developers of games and content on the Unreal Engine shared more than $200 thousand among themselves.

The manufacturer of Lego constructors has teamed up with Tencent Corporation. The companies intend to cooperate in creating online games and social media for young Chinese citizens.