Gambling for virtual money is a popular entertainment in English–speaking countries. Which genres of social casino are most popular with users, – Newzoo, a company specializing in gaming market research, told in its publication “A New Look at Social casino players”. We offer a summary of the material.

The American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association of America (SFWA) will begin awarding the Nebula award in the new nomination “Best Game Scenario” in 2018.

The VKontakte social network will host the VK High Score conference in Moscow on October 12. It is aimed at developers of games for VK social and mobile platforms.

The developer of MMX Racing and Smash Bandits Racing has released a new game about racing cars. It has been downloaded more than a million times in a week.

The market value of CD Projekt Red in the first half of 2017 amounted to $2.3 billion – more than twice as much as a year earlier.

The Finnish company Rovio has announced the holding of MumJam 2017, a training seminar on game design aimed at women with children.

The French company Ubisoft has announced the creation of two new offices in the Canadian province of Quebec. This will create more than 1,000 new jobs in the region in a ten-year perspective.

The popularity of the rewarded video has led to the spread of a new monetization model – view-to-play. We asked Jamie Laes, founder of Futureplay Games and a supporter of this model, about working with her.

The creators of the game content for the Minecraft Marketplace store earned $1 million in two months of its existence.

Sales of the MMO shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds on Steam in less than 6 months exceeded 10 million copies.

How much time mobile users spend in games, the genres they prefer, how much they leave in projects – the answers to these questions depend on the country. So says Danielle Levitas, Vice President of Research at App Annie.

We continue the traditional publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert, founder of VALUES VALUE.

Kotaku news editor Jason Schreier has released a book Blood, Sweat and Pixels, in which he collected stories about the creation of 10 significant game projects.

In the upcoming MMO shooter Destiny 2, microtransactions and “silver” (Silver) – a virtual currency from the first part of the game, purchased for real money, may appear.

The total turnover of Swedish game studios has grown by 1000% over the past 7 years and reached €1.4 billion by the end of 2016. The industry has remained profitable for 8 years in a row.

The developer of Angry Birds has officially announced plans to enter the stock market. Rovio has big plans in connection with the initial placement.

Company Wargaming.net opened an office in Copenhagen based on Hapti Studio. Co, which was previously owned by IO Interactive, and has recently been floating freely.

The Indie Game Cup game project competition will be held again at White Nights in Moscow. Acceptance of applications has already begun and will last until the twentieth of September.

The Guillemot family acquired 1.75% of Ubisoft shares for an estimated €112.5 million. The purchase brought the ownership stake of Ubisoft by the Guillemot family to 15.35%, which gives it 20.02% of the shareholders’ votes.