Swedish mobile game developer MAG Interactive goes public. Trading in the company’s shares on the Nasdaq First North platform will start on December 8 this year.

Users of cheat modifications for the online shooter PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS do not hesitate to offer them for sale to other players.

The developers of the Unity engine have acquired a Multiplay Digital game hosting. They bought it for £19 million from a major British gaming retailer GAME.

Quarterly sales of virtual reality helmets exceeded 1 million devices for the first time. Such a number of VR headsets were implemented in the third quarter of 2017.

Nintendo’s successful year continues: the company’s new mobile game — Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp — has gained 15 million downloads in the first 6 days.

While everyone is discussing loot boxes, social casinos are attracting new investors. The mobile slots developer studio Huuuge Games raised about $50 million of investments in the investment round of the series C.

Deconstruction Workshop at White Nights in Moscow. Industry experts dismantled four games in front of the audience, told what they think about design, monetization, game mechanics, game cycle and social features.

The main “battle royale” of modern PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS will be released on mobile platforms. Porting the game will be handled by the developer studio Bluehole Studios together with the Chinese megacorporation Tencent.

Rewarded video advertising has become the predominant type of advertising in mobile freeplay games. Compared to last year, its share increased from 44% to 58%.

Consoles went to the people. From January to September 2017, the game console market in Russia grew by 28% in money and by 39% in pieces compared to the same period last year.

Ed Laws report from InMobi. The speaker shared the best practices on UA, remarketing and anti-fraud.

The Russian gaming industry is under attack again. The Security Council of the Russian Federation has ordered the FSB to introduce identification of users of online games by cell phone number. The authorities believe that terrorist attacks can be prepared through game chats.

Retention can be different. Measuring the indicators of the product, one should definitely not be limited to one. How it happens, – says the analyst devtodev Vera Karpova in a new article in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Video games will generate more and more money through the sale of additional content, according to the analytical company SuperData.

Electronic Arts is boycotting again, this time by FIFA 18 fans. Sportssim fans launched the #FixFIFA campaign with an appeal not to buy the game on sale on the occasion of “Black Friday” until the developers fix their mistakes.

Report by Antonina Binetskaya from Wargaming. Antonina told about how the company works with ideas of new games / products, what work should be done before the pitch of the project to investors / LT, as well as how to start the process of working with ideas within the company.

Korean millionaire Kevin Chou will help the Finnish studio Critical Force to develop a mobile shooter Critical Ops as an esports. To this end, the former head of Kabam joined the board of directors of Critical Force.

Bandai Namco continues to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Tamagotchi. First, I re-released the original toy, and now I have taken up the development of the My Tamagochi Forever title for iOS and Android platforms.

In Russia, everything is fine with mobile teams. Only decent-earning companies – more than a hundred pieces. This is what representatives of Google Play Dmitry Martynov and Roman Mardo think.