One less mystery. Startup Magic Leap demonstrated the design of augmented reality glasses Magic Leap One. The project was developed for 6 years in secrecy and raised $1.9 billion in investments.

Apple has introduced restrictions on the use of loot boxes in iOS games. The company obliged developers to disclose to users the probability of receiving each type of items before buying a loot box.

A report by Ryan Booth from Virtual Arts. The speaker spoke about how the company went the way to creating its first VR game – Cargo Racing VR, as well as what they learned during their existence.

Wanted: a game balancer in MyTona, an event director in Playrix and a narrative designer in G5.

The revenue of the mobile version of the Hearthstone card game after the release of the Kobolds and Catacombs add-on increased by 119% in 5 days. Sensor Tower analytical company shared data on the impact of add-ons on mobile Hearthstone revenues.

Vice President of Business Development 101XP Ilya Salamatov told App2Top.ru about the success of his company over the past year.

The role-playing game Exiles of Embermark from the Californian team Gunslinger Studios will be one of the first releases of the new mobile publishing house Wargaming Mobile, created on the basis of the company Wargaming.net .

Business Development Manager of Microsoft partners Viktor Kiselyov said App2Top.ru about how this year has passed for the company, and at the same time noted the factors of the successful launch of PUBG.

The rating service GitHyp has brought disappointing statistics: VR versions of popular titles on Steam are hardly collected online by several hundred gamers.

Report by Marina Michkova from Yandex. Marina spoke about Yandex technologies for effective monetization of the entire audience of mobile applications.

The Unity game engine received a major update before Christmas. In version 2017.3, working with panoramic videos has been simplified and Xbox One X support has appeared.

The founder and CEO of the recruiting company VALUES VALUE Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko) told App2Top.ru about HR trends in the CIS gaming industry.

The fever of “royal battles” has spread to mobile. The Knives Out mobile PVP action game from the Chinese company NetEase scored over 100 million downloads during the open beta test, which began on November 3 and ended with the global release of the game on December 14.

The producer of the studio “Interactive Stories” Nikita Lyubimov told App2Top.ru , which events in the outgoing year hooked him the most.

Women are a more valuable customer in the mobile games market than men. The analytical company DeltaDNA reports that women’s spending in mobile titles is 44% higher than that of the stronger sex.

It’s worth going. A preliminary program of the conference has appeared on the White Nights Prague 2018 website. According to her, King, Supercell, Bandai Namco and many others will perform at the event.

Report by Alexander Neberekutin from DevGame. The speaker considered the balance in the game as an integral structure and answered a wide range of questions on building an economy based on user data.

Another representative of gamedev is preparing to enter the securities market. The capitalization of Sumo Group during the preliminary evaluation of the IPO on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) amounted to £145 million.

The third is superfluous. Autodesk has decided to discontinue support and development of the Stingray game engine. The company explained this decision by unwillingness to compete with Unity and Unreal Engine.