A report by Christopher Lefebvre from Tapdaq. The speaker presented the top five most suitable places for scrolling ads in mobile games, and also shared information on how each of them affects revenue, retention and other indicators.

Wargaming Alliance has announced the start of work with Mad Head Games, a Serbian studio that specializes in hidden object games. Judging by the first published art, the companies are working together on a new MOBA.

The creators of the Battlefield shooter series are testing the “battle royale” mode for the last part of Battlefield V. This was told to the Venture Beat edition by DICE studio employees on condition of anonymity.

German gaming publisher Kalypso Media has reported record revenues in fiscal year 2017. According to the company’s representatives, last year was the best in the 12-year history of Kalypso.

The French team Dontnod Entertainment, known for the games Remember Me and Life Is Strange, announced the registration of documents for the launch of the IPO. The studio’s management plans to raise money to develop cooperation with publishers and launch more ambitious games into production.

The mobile version of the Fortnite Battle Royale from Epic Games generated $25 million. This is reported by the Sensor Tower analytical platform.

The head of Bossa Studios, Henrique Olifiers, believes that the industry is using early access incorrectly. Developers are releasing almost finished games, while Oliphers wants to see more projects in early access at the initial stage of readiness.

Mike Wilson, a veteran of the gaming industry, believes that the corporate culture of large gaming companies is inhumane and harms their employees. Therefore, developers need their own trade union or a collective agreement with the employer.

The other day, App Annie published its index for March. With an eye on him, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales.

The Japanese mobile messenger developer company Line has introduced the Line Game Platform for mobile game creators. It will allow you to fight copycat games, analyzes user behavior and has a number of other features.

An update to Guns of Boom was released on April 17. In particular, for its promotion, the Game Insight developer company signed a contract with the star of the movie “Machete Kills” Danny Trejo.

In the next 4 years, the turnover from the sale of loot boxes and drawings of game skins will almost double and reach $ 50 billion. This is stated in the report of the analytical company Juniper Research.

After it became known that Roskomnadzor blocked 16 million IP addresses in pursuit of Telegram, information was received that games such as War Thunder, Fortnite and PUBG faced problems.

Wanted: Unity developer at Pixonic, 3D artist at MyTona and project manager at Alternativa Games.

Why you should not stop at CryEngine when choosing a tool for game development — especially for App2Top.ru Sergey Korolev, General Director of Magisterion Studio, told us.

The head of the Boss Key Productions studio, Cliff Bleszinski, appealed to Epic Games with a request not to poach his employees to his staff. The game designer tweeted about it.

Mike Verdu, Senior Vice President of Electronic Arts mobile publishing house, announced his departure from the company. According to Verdoux, the reason for his resignation was constant business trips and an unstable work schedule. He will leave his post at the beginning of May this year.

Two residents of Washington State sued four operators of social online casinos. The defendants were Huuuge Games, DoubleDown Interactive, High 5 Games and Playtika.

A report by Paweł Gajda from Carbon Studio. The speaker spoke about how important it is to find and adjust the perfect balance between immersion and comfort when traveling in VR games.