Paradox Interactive acquired 33% of Seattle studio Hardsuite Labs for $2 million. Under the terms of the deal, Paradox may increase its ownership stake in Hardsuite Labs in the future.

PUBG Corp. And Xbox reported selling 3 million copies of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLE Royale for Xbox One in the first month after release, with 1 million copies sold out in the first 48 hours.

Independent game studios are subsidized in Spain. The government of the country has approved a budget grant of €6.5 million for indie developers.

The Prague White Nights will feature Timur Haussila, the Supercell product lead who led the work on Boom Beach. We suggest coming up with a question for him. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Sega has introduced its own social casino — Sega Slots. It contains 8 virtual machines in the theme of the company’s popular gaming franchises: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sinobi, Golden Axe and others.

How to improve in–game events and increase user involvement in the project with their help, – Igor Petrov, Director of Game Design at MyTona, told on the example of Seekers Notes: Hidden Mystery.

Gaming startups in 2017 received about $ 25 million in total with the help of collective funding on crowdfunding resources, according to the analytical company Ico Partners.

Electronic Arts is developing new algorithms for match selection in multiplayer titles. The technology will adapt to the gamer’s current skill level and make it easier for him to win after several unsuccessful fights.

For what tasks and how much are paid to autosource companies and third-party employees specializing in creating graphics in the RU segment, SunStrike Studios told in its research.

Steam Spy reports: in 2017, 7.6 thousand games were released on the Steam platform. This is more than the total number of releases in the Valve store for the previous 2 years.

Battlestate Games ignite on Twitch. Their hardcore shooter Escape From Tarkov, still in closed beta, last weekend entered the top five games with the largest number of viewers on the platform, overtaking PUBG and Overwatch.

About the professional development program for game development managers and the specifics of the modern gaming industry App2Top.ru I spoke with a representative of the Finnish educational organization Aalto ENT.

The author of the Sniper Elite series of Sniper shooters, Rebellion Developments has acquired the Radiant Worlds studio, known for the SkySaga: Infinite Isles free-play role-playing sandbox.

Epic Games has announced a revision in the asset store for the Unreal Engine. The owners of the site want to make sure that the authors of the content do not violate intellectual property rights.

Twitch streaming service has agreed with Overwatch League to broadcast league games in the next 2 years. As the Sport Business Journal reports, citing internal sources, the transaction amount was at least $90 million.

Nazara Technologies acquired a controlling stake in the local Nextwave Multimedia studio. The latter specializes in the development of sports titles and games for virtual reality.

Alexander Shilyaev, a leading game designer at the Gardenscapes project (Playrix), shared his experience in developing levels for games in the three-in-a-row genre.

Gamers have once again proved that they do not regret money for nostalgia. The British indie studio Bitmap Bureau has raised more than $95 thousand on Kickstarter to develop a retro Xeno Crisis shooter for the 16-bit Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console.

In 2017, the rating of games with the most massive online on Steam was replenished with only one new title — the “royal battle” of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS from Bluehole Studios.