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.

Wanted: art director at Cubic Games, bizdev at Playrix and javascript programmer at Nevosoft.

My first thought was when it became known yesterday that online games in Russia will be obliged to identify users: how will this affect the conversion and, as a result, the cost of traffic. As it turned out, I was thinking about the wrong thing.

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.