The innovative augmented reality startup Magic Leap has received $461 million of investment from the government fund Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The mobile role-playing MMO Lineage 2: Revolution by the South Korean publisher Netmarble generated $924 million in the first 11 months after launch. The game earned most of this amount on the local market.

Wargaming UK public relations specialist Frazer Nash left the company to start his own business. Nash worked at the British branch of Wargaming for 8 years.

Mobile game developer studio Next Games has won the competition of the best employers of the Finnish gaming industry. The competition was held by the international company Great Place to Work, analyzing the employment market in different countries.

In the spring of 2017, the Ukrainian company Values Value, founded by Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko), conducted a large-scale survey of gaming industry specialists from the CIS about salaries. App2Top.ru publishes excerpts from the results of the study.

A report by Mario Valle from Altered Ventures LLC. The speaker spoke about how the financing of gaming projects is currently taking place.

Game producer Mark Skaggs announced his intention to leave the board of directors of the Indian game studio Moonfrog Labs and return to the United States. Skaggs is known as the lead for the development of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Generals strategies.

WebMoney Transfer and PayMaster have published data on the dynamics of the Russian desktop market of MMO games for December-February. Compared to last year, the turnover fell, but the average check grew by a quarter. It amounted to 846 rubles ($14.8).

The French mobile publisher Gameloft continues to close foreign offices. A month ago, the company liquidated a branch in New Orleans, and recently it became known about the termination of the work of the division in Madrid.

Wanted: Maya is a 3D animator at Banzai Games, an augmented reality programmer at Azur Games and the head of traffic procurement at Kraft.

The creators of Clicker Clicker Heroes and Clicker Heroes 2 from the Playsaurus studio faced patent trolling. GTX Corp. she accused the developers of violating the patent for the use of virtual currency. According to GTX Corp., the mechanics of virtual currency cannot be applied without their permission.

On March 6, Kongregate published the announcement of its own PC game store. It’s called Kartridge. The creators of the service position the novelty as a gaming platform that will be managed by the gaming community.

The analytical company Apptopia drew attention to the income of mobile games in the genre of “interactive novella”. According to researchers, the 7 most downloaded titles in this category generated more than $14 million on in-game purchases by users only in the United States.

The GameSparks gaming platform has officially confirmed its transition to Amazon ownership, writing about it in its blog. Rumors about the purchase of GameSparks by the American Internet corporation have been going around since July last year.

Report by Leszek Szczepanski from Guerrilla Games. The speaker spoke about how their small team created an AAA role-playing project with the open world Horizon Zero Dawn.

The Finnish company Rovio has closed a branch in the capital of the UK and dismissed its staff of 7 people. The London office lasted a little over a year.

In the first days of March 2016, the first episode of One Day in London, the OWL-studio image project, was released on Steam. Vera Velichko, founder and art director of the Moscow studio, before the release of the fifth episode, recalls how the mechanics in her visual novel developed.

Capcom publishing house called the sales of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action the best in its history. Since the game’s release on January 26, Capcom has shipped 7.5 million copies of the game to stores and provided digital downloads on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Video interview with Timur Haussila from Supercell. Timur told how Supercell is preparing projects for release, and what difficulties the team is facing.