Grand Theft Auto V continues to sell millions 4 years after its release. Total sales of the game exceeded 85 million copies, with the last 5 million sold from May to November of this year.

90 employees (25%) of Telltale Games were left without work. The reduction was explained by the desire to focus on the quality of games.

What questions can a candidate be asked for the position of a mobile game producer, what tasks should he be ready for, – he shared on his Facebook page Ilya Eremeev, who previously served as a creative producer of Game Insight, and now is an executive producer at Mail.ru Games Ventures.

The American mobile publisher Zynga announced its intention to buy a division for the creation of mobile card games from the studio Peak Games.

Wanted: a monetization manager at Wargaming and data specialists at Playrix.

Japanese gaming giant Bandai Namco will allocate additional funds for the development of titles for the Nintendo Switch platform.

Bon Games game studio from Finland raised $1.4 million at the seed stage of investment for the development and publication of its first game — a mobile simulator of the transport company Transit King.

Users of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine from YoYo Games have received full access to the latest versions of the Amazon API in the module for the Amazon Fire platform.

The battle royale mode for the Fortnite cooperative shooter from Epic Games has gathered over 20 million unique users. This is slightly more than the number of owners of copies of its competitor and mastermind — the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole.

A report by Philip Karmanov from Black Snowflake Games. The speaker spoke about a relatively new and little-studied format at the junction of traditional mobile advertising and gameplay – Playable Ads, which shows excellent results in user engagement.

On November 25, the Games Job Fair event will be held in St. Petersburg. Its goal is to help Finnish developers find new employees in Russia.

With the help of work on the pop-up, DevGame managed not only to raise the rating of its two applications, but also to significantly increase the number of ratings issued per day. Elena Vereshchagina, CMO of the company, told about how it was done.

The author of the mobile hit Pokémon Go, Niantic acquired the startup Evertoon, which developed the iOS app Evertoon App. It generates three-dimensional models based on photos, shoot short videos with their participation and share videos on social networks.

Runic Games Studio is no more. It was closed by the owner – the Chinese company Perfect World Entertainment, known for the MMORPG Neverwinter.

What tricks do slot developers resort to? – using the example of Vegas Words, Vasily Sabirov, chief analyst at devtodev, and Alexander Shtachenko, product owner at Panther Gaming and author of the blog, analyzed Progamedev.net .

A report by Alexander Shilyaev from Playrix. The speaker spoke about the design features of Match-3 levels in Gardenscapes, the requirements for them, and the impact of the bonus system on the design.

Electronic Arts Corporation will not release games on the Nintendo Switch console yet. EA has postponed the final decision on this issue until March 2018.

Activision Blizzard reported earnings for the 3rd quarter of 2017. The company earned $1.6 billion, exceeding its own forecast by $233 million.

Three years after the worldwide release, one of the first mobile MOBA games introduces the classic 5×5 game mode. So far, only within the framework of a closed test. A little bit about the reasons for the innovation is in our material.