Paid loot boxes will disappear from the online shooter Star Wars: Battlefront II. The remaining boxes with random loot will be issued for game achievements and contain only cosmetic items and game credits, according to the publisher of the game Electronic Arts.

A large outsourced video game developer Virtuos intends to invest $30 million in the creation and purchase of new studios. Gilles Langourieux, the company’s CEO, spoke about the company’s plan for the next two years.

The Fortnite MMO project of Epic Games has taken another peak in the pursuit of world fame and popularity. The online action movie has outstripped the legendary Minecraft sandbox in terms of the number of Google searches.

The next White Nights will be held in Cyprus as a summit for CEOs. Why the organizers chose the new format and how it will differ from the usual one — she told in an interview with App2Top.ru Yulia Lebedeva, chief coordinator of the “White Nights”.

Social media can become one of the best free tools for attracting and retaining players in a mobile title. This is stated in a joint study by Sega and the social promotion service GetSocial.

A report by Nelson Rodriguez from Akamai. The speaker said that by 2020 the number of players in the world will increase from 2.2 billion to 3.2 billion. In his presentation, Nelson shared Akamai’s predictions about who these players are, where they come from and what they will be interested in playing.

Among the most popular search queries in February in the American App Store were Perfect Tower and Roblox. But special attention should be paid to the new coloring book — UNICORN 3D.

Google has opened the Google Maps navigation service API for game developers. Game creators will be able to use Google Maps resources for their projects using geolocation data.

The international operator of social casinos KamaGames reported on the results of 2017. Mobile blackjack Blackjack 21: Blackjackist became the driver of revenue growth.

A large video game outsourcing firm Virtuos has received $15 million in investments. The company will direct financing for business development. Virtuos participated in the work on Horizon Zero Dawn, L. A. Noir and other large-scale projects.

Epic Games has released a version of the Unreal Engine 4.19 game engine. It contains a number of new features that simplify the creation of AR applications, offer additional options for adjusting image detail and contain many other features.

On March 14, the social network Facebook announced that any team can now develop and publish projects on its HTML5 platform of instant games. No more closed favorites list.

The Fortnite Battle Royale freeplay mode received a powerful promotion on Twitch after hip-hop star Drake joined the game. The famous musician became the hero of the broadcast of the streamer Tyler Blevins (Tyler Blevins). 607 thousand people watched their game at the same time — more than ever in the history of Twitch.

Dmitry Lyapin ‘s report from Zorka.Mobi . The speaker shared the secrets of cooperation with well-known bloggers, told about the company’s experience Zorka.Mobi in the field of working with influencers from different regions.

What does an advertising publisher do, how to work with him and what they are, — he tells Tatiana Seregina, Publisher Manager FeedWise at Mobio.

The Californian company Jam City has acquired the mobile studio Brainz, located in Colombia. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

The revenues of the Singapore studio IGG in 2017 amounted to $603 million. The revenue driver was the mobile role-playing MMO game Lords Mobile. Last year, the fritupley title generated from $30 to $51 million per month.

App Annie has published an index of the most downloaded mobile games for February. Thanks to him, it turned out that Novosibirsk-based Naxeex is slightly inferior to Vivendi and Activision Blizzard in monthly user installations with Android.

On March 13, the analytical company App Annie summed up the results of the gaming industry over the past year. She posted a presentation online about the general state of affairs in the market. We have identified 8 main facts.