Square Enix announced a personnel reorganization of the board of directors. The new board includes developers who participated in the creation of a number of flagship tiles of the company.

The head of the gaming division and executive vice president of Rovio Wilhelm Taht (Wilhelm Taht) left the post without explanation. His departure was preceded by a record drop in the company’s shares, which was announced a week earlier.

Ubisoft has acquired the independent game studio Blue Mammoth Games. Together with her, the company acquired the rights to the free-play online fighting game Brawlhalla, which managed to gain popularity on PC and PlayStation 4.

The number of players in Ubisoft’s MMO action game The Division continues to grow two years after its release. At the beginning of March, the project’s gaming audience crossed the threshold of 20 million players on all platforms. The game is available on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

A report by Stephen Jarrett from King. The speaker spoke about how the company inspires game designers to create cool products.

In February, former iLogos CEO Elena Lobova launched the ACHIEVERS HUB service. Its task is to support indie developers. We are talking about both assistance in expert evaluation, marketing, and in finding investors or publishers. Editor App2Top.ru Alexander Semenov talked to Elena about her career in industry, management and, of course, a new beginning.

We are starting to publish the materials of the White Nights conference, which was held in Prague on February 13-14, 2018. The first report by Silvia Buermann from App Annie. Silvia shared statistics and the latest news of the mobile games market, paying special attention to Russia and the CIS countries.

The main exclusive Sony PlayStation 4 of last year noted yesterday Birthday. The game is a year old. During this time, the number of copies sold reached 7.6 million.

Crytek Founder Djevat Yerli is no longer CEO or president of the company. He put the leadership in the hands of his younger brothers – Avni Yerli and Farouk Yerli.

The French gaming company Ubisoft has acquired a local studio 1492 Studio, known for a series of episodic dating simulators Is It Love? for mobile platforms.

March 1 Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has published a financial report. It covers both the last quarter of last year and the whole year. The company’s revenues from MMO games for both periods increased year-on-year again. Their biggest games Mail.Ru The Group calls Warface and War Robots.

Last Thursday, Hunt: Showdown came out in early access. This is a new game from the German Crytek studio. In less than a week, the audience of the game reached 100 thousand players. We talk about the project, its features and the first indicators.

The American company Zynga has published a puzzle Rangoli Rekha: Color Match in India. The official launch was preceded by a softlonch, which lasted from August last year. Rangoli Rekha is aimed at Indian users: it was developed by a local studio, and the design of the game uses elements of the country’s cultural heritage.

The French mobile publisher Gameloft is gradually changing the business development model. The growth of revenue from the sale of titles is slowing down, so the company’s interests have focused on increasing revenue from the advertising segment and producing more casual titles.

The story around the new “Corsairs” has taken an unexpected turn. Director Mail.Ru Games Ventures Ilya Karpinsky said in his Facebook post that his fund is ready to invest $ 1 million in the development of the game. However, to do this, developers will need to create a prototype of the game.

On February 27, the analytical company SuperData published a traditional monthly report on sales of games distributed in numbers. It says that users spent $8.9 billion on games in the first month of 2018.

The independent Association of European game publishers Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) has started keeping official records of digital copies of video games sold along with retail. France became the pilot territory for the implementation of the project.

The Khronos Group company, with the support of Valve, LunarG and The Brenwill Workshop, has released the MoltenVK game development platform. It fully supports the Vulkan graphical API on iOS and macOS operating systems.

Wanted: an art manager at Playrix, a motion designer at G5 Games and a novice level designer at Nevosoft.