The president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Andrew House, announced his departure. He worked at Sony Corporation for almost 27 years.

The Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group of the Chinese Alibaba Corporation plans to create a business group engaged in the creation of video games.

Alexey Savchenko from Epic Games will perform at the Moscow session of White Nights. He will talk about new and future features of Unreal Engine 4. We offer to come up with questions for him in advance. We will award premium tickets to the authors of the top two.

The developer of the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole Studio has denied the fact of the purchase of its shares by the Chinese corporation Tencent.

Cuphead’s two-dimensional shooter from MDHR Studio sold 125 thousand copies in three days of sales on Steam.

The global audience of the Plague Inc strategy of Ndemic Creations studio on all platforms exceeded 100 million people.

The demand for collectible titles in retail will always remain, despite falling sales of physical copies, says Philip Brock, PR director of THQ Nordic publishing house.

Unity Technologies has updated the Projects blog platform to demonstrate its games, programs and developments on the Unity engine to version 2.0.

The indicator that allows you to assess the stability of the user base is called “Stickiness” (“Sticky Factor”). Is there a correlation between it and the revenue of the game, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova.

On September 29, the Finnish company Rovio Entertainment held a preliminary placement of shares on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange, following which it was valued at €950 million.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has acquired less than 5% of the shares of Bluehole Studios, which created the popular PvP action game Playerunknowns Battlegrounds.

The Chinese company Snail Digital sued the Fox film company for unproven assistance and financial assistance in the development of games based on the film War for the Planet of the Apes, which is why the start of projects was disrupted.

What are the four steps you need to take before you start writing a game concept and development, – said Playbeat product manager Alexandra Shtachenko.

The Israeli creator of mobile strategies Plarium has acquired the studio Rumble Entertainment, known for its role-playing games for social networks and mobile.

In Moscow, at White Nights, one of the round tables will be devoted to working with video bloggers while promoting the game. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Mamorset company has introduced a new version of the editor for creating vector graphics and animation Hexels 3.

The second game of independent developer Tom Francis (Tom Francis) Heat Signature in the first week after release overtook the sales of his debut title Gunpoint, also successful.

On September 22, the Vacuum startup was announced — a gaming and trading platform for the placement, sale and exchange of digital copies of video games, on which the calculation will take place using cryptocurrency.

In three months, the cost of Bluehole Studios, which released PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), has increased fivefold. Today, the company could be worth $4.6 billion.