A week ago, Wargaming announced the launch of a development studio in Moscow. We took a short interview about her from the head of the new office, Andrey Zimenko.

Google has opened the acceptance of works for the competition for developers of Android games Google Play Indie Games Contest. This year, for the first time, game creators from Russia and 27 other European countries will be able to participate in it.

Former Visceral Games studio level designer Zach Wilson called the cost of developing a sequel to the sci-fi horror Dead Space — $ 60 million.

Obsidian will release a novel and a series of short stories about the Pillars of Eternity role-playing game universe on the Bound mobile platform for literary works.

Capcom announced the delivery of 4 million copies of Resident Evil VII horror to stores 10 months after the launch of the game.

Game trailer editor Derek Lieu has compiled a selection of specifications for creating game trailers for various platforms.

How was the work on the paid version of Shadow Fight 2 going and how much she was able to earn, – Nikita Korzhavin, director of business Development at Nekki, told on his Facebook page. With the permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

The Finnish mobile studio Nitro Games has generated $3.1 million by selling 500 thousand new shares.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Activision a patent for using the method of “stimulating [making] microtransactions in multiplayer games.”

In the UK, a group of citizens demanded that the government equate loot boxes (sets with random game content) in video games with gambling and restrict access to them to minors.

The “augmented reality” startup Magic Leap raised $502 million in the investment round of the “D” series.

Electronic Arts Corporation has liquidated its subsidiary studio Visceral Games, known for the sci-fi horror game series Dead Space.

Wanted: mobile marketer at Playkot, marketing analyst at Game Insight, head of graphic design at Glu Mobile and release engineer at Social Quantum.

St. Petersburg Branch Wargaming.net ready to teach again. The studio announced that it is recruiting students for its own training course for the third time. The Wargaming Academy educational project opened its doors for the first time in 2015.

Since the beginning of 2017, over 6 thousand new games have been released on Steam — 40% more than published on the Valve platform for the whole of 2016.

On October 16, it became known that Mail.Ru The Group will be the publisher of PLAYERUNKNOWN’s BATTLEGROUNDS in Russia and the CIS. Whether this will affect the game and what the deal will bring to its participants – we talked with Daria Kot, the producer of the project from the Russian side.

Sony Music Entertainment has launched a new gaming label, Units, to publish titles on the Nintendo Switch console and other platforms.

Game Dev-edition 80.lv drew attention to the graphic editor Pyxel Edit, designed to create pixel art, sprite animation and work with tiles.

MOBA League of Legends in September again took the top 20 most popular games on the Twitch streaming platform, shifting the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds to second place.