The development team of the “heroic” shooter LawBreakers studio Boss Key has lost one of the leaders. The co-founder of the company Arjan Brussi (Arjan Brussee) moved to Epic Games to work on a kind of “secret project”.

The executive director of Pixonic Igor Klyukin said App2Top.ru about how the outgoing year passed for him.

Before the New Year, we traditionally launch a series of materials “Results”. As part of the first and opening material, Nordcurrent co-founder Sergey Trofimov told how 2017 was for his company.

A report by Kirill Perevozchikov from Larian Studios. The speaker spoke about the ups and downs, about the lessons learned during the Divinity: Original Sin 2 marketing campaign. At the same time, the company had a limited budget of an indie team.

The capitalization of the Swedish mobile developer MAG Interactive according to the results of the IPO amounted to $ 137 million. MAG Interactive began the procedure of entering the stock exchange last week.

Fortnite continues to chase the success of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS. The number of users of the Epic Games network shooter has passed the 30 million mark, mainly due to the free “battle royale” mode Fortnite: Battle Royale.

The Swedish group of companies Stillfront Group acquired the German game studio Goodgame Studio for € 270 million.

On December 8, Los Angeles summed up the results of the annual Game Awards. The winner of the main “gaming Oscar” this year was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and its creator Nintendo is the leader in the number of nominations.

Report by Michael Haberl from Xendex. The speaker considered alternative app stores, how developers can successfully use them, as well as the market as a whole, players and business models.

The analytical site Steam Spy was cut off from the data of the Valve game store for unknown reasons. This was told by the creator of the service Sergey Galenkin on Twitter.

“It is impossible to pay (in Russia) either in Monopoly tokens or with money from World of Tanks,” said Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev. So he commented on the upcoming law on cryptocurrencies.

Being indie is not easy. At the same time, there are almost no structures for their support on the territory of the CIS. Elena Lobova, former CEO of iLogos, volunteered to fix the situation.

Electronic Arts and Blizzard Entertainment were ranked in the top 100 best employers of the year by the recruiting site Glassdoor. The rating was based on employee reviews published on Glassdoor.

On the eve of the holidays, Apple announced which games it considers the best in the outgoing year. The choice was far from the most obvious.

Bitcoin is breaking records in value, but they can no longer pay on Steam. The largest digital game store has stopped payments in cryptocurrency due to the instability of the exchange rate and high fees for transactions in bitcoins.

Report by Vyacheslav Buinov from Playtika. The speaker spoke about Haxe as an alternative and answered the following questions: What is Haxe? What are its advantages and disadvantages over other technologies? How suitable is it for the project? How fast can I translate a game/prototype to get a working build? Is it true that you can use the same code for web and mobile?

According to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, at least 35% of players make in-game purchases in the Ultimate Team modes of EA Sports games.

Nordisk Film continues to invest in video games. The Danish film company has invested $ 5 million in the local studio Reto-Moto, known for the free-play MMO shooter Heroes & Generals.

Report by Anna Krizhanovskaya from Playrix. Anna talked about how to become a valuable UAM, what to pay attention to in order to continue improving and developing, considered examples of portraits of real UAM, as well as the main mistakes and interesting facts from the life of UAM.