Nintendo has taken up aggressive branding. Her key Super Mario franchise will have its own breakfast cereals. Super Mario Cereal will be available on the shelves of American stores from December 11.

Gameroom shared her experience of launching the mobile action game War Robots on the Facebook desktop platform with App2Top.ru Pixonic company.

Give me two. The Chinese publisher PUBG is developing not one, but two mobile versions of the game at once.

The growth rate of the global video game market is ahead of experts’ forecasts. In 2017, gaming industry revenues will reach a value of $116 billion, an increase of 10.7% compared to last year, according to the analytical company Newzoo.

It’s too early to bury singles. That’s what SuperData thinks. According to her, in October, the digital versions of Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Middle Earth: Shadow of War and South Park: The Fractured but Whole for three earned $160 million.

People with a penchant for gambling should not be allowed to the loot boxes, says a Reddit user with the nickname Kensgold. He told how he spent more than $10 thousand over the past two years on game content. He managed to break with addiction only thanks to a psychotherapist.

In Australia, Christmas has started ahead of schedule. Manufacturer of slot machines Aristocrat Leisure makes a gift for itself. He is going to acquire Big Fish Games from the horse racing company Churchill Downs for $990 million in cash.

Digital distribution of video games will completely replace retail in the next 5 − 20 years. Karl Slatoff, the president of Take-Two Interactive publishing house, thinks so.

While some are looking for new ways of game monetization, others continue to earn steadily on midcore games. The revenues of the German studio Goodgame Studios have crossed the $1 billion mark since the company was founded in 2009.

Presentation by Alexey Klyuev and Pavel Lepeev from Samsung Electronics. The speakers demonstrated how the desktop mode works, showed how to write code, as well as edit, assemble and deploy builds using AIDE.

Autodesk, a developer of 3D modeling tools, will lay off 1,150 employees. The company explained this by switching services to a subscription.

Linear gameplay is no longer as popular with players as it was 5 or 10 years ago, according to Electronic Arts CEO Blake Jorgensen. He said this at the last Credit Suisse media conference in Arizona.

Criticism of the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II hit not only the reputation, but also the capitalization of Electronic Arts. The company lost $3.1 billion in market value when its shares fell by 8.5% since the beginning of the month.

Game Recommendation Service RAWG.io , launched this spring by Kanobu founder Haji Mahtiyev, has received an executive director and editor-in-chief.

Japanese game designer Tomonobu Itagaki wants to open a game studio in Rome. The author of the fighting game series Dead or Alive announced this at the GameRome game developers convention, Gamereactor reports.

What consequences should the Russian gaming industry expect after the introduction of mandatory identification of gamers by phone number and what are the questions to the initiative, – App2Top.ru he told me Valentin Merzlikin, evangelist of Creative Mobile publishing, and Evgenia Alexandrova, Business Development Manager at CreaGames.

Sales of the Divinity: Original Sin 2 role-playing game by Larian studio exceeded 1 million copies 2.5 months after release. The game is only available on the PC platform.

A report by Mike Hines from Amazon. The speaker told about everything you need to know: from creating an account on Amazon and devices to features.

Amazon Internet Corporation has launched the Amazon Sumerian platform for creating three-dimensional applications for VR and AR devices.