The British game studio Bossa Studios has invited former Valve screenwriter Chet Faliszek, known for his work on the stories Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead.

Company Mail.Ru The Group will invest €800 thousand in the Russian-Finnish mobile game developer studio Panzerdog and will receive a share in the company.

The Finnish company Rovio has signed a multi-year contract with the Liverpool football club Everton to apply the symbols of the Angry Birds franchise to the team uniform.

Gearbox Software will stop developing updates for the Battleborn team shooter after the release of the latest Fall Update.

The Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XV by Square Enix has sold 6.5 million copies in the 10 months since the release of the title at the end of November last year.

A round table on the use of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in games will be held at the White Nights conference in Moscow. We offer to come up with questions for its participants. The authors of the two best questions will receive a free premium ticket to the conference.

The multiplayer survival shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds on Steam simultaneously gathered 1.3 million people in the game on September 16, surpassing the similar record of MOBA Dota 2.

The developers of Bring Me Cakes, one of the first games on Defold, told why they work on it, as well as what to expect from the feature on iOS if you release a paid game.

The role-playing game Divinity: Original Sin 2 by Larian studio became the 4th most popular game on Steam in the first weekend after the release, which took place on September 14. At its peak, almost 86 thousand people are playing the project at the same time.

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The creator of the Gears of War series, Cliff Bleszinski, believes that all is not lost for his online team shooter LawBreakers. He admitted mistakes and is ready to make efforts to make the project succeed after a failed start.

The head of the publishing division of Epic Games in Eastern Europe and the author of the analytical service Steam Spy, Sergey Galenkin, presented data according to which the average income of indie developers on Steam has decreased by 50% over the past 2 years.

The metric that allows you to track the loss of audience in the product is called Churn rate (it is also the outflow of users). How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Pete Hawley has been appointed CEO of Telltale Games Studio. For the last three years, he has served as vice president and general manager of the gaming direction at Zynga mobile publishing house.

In August, the Nintendo Switch console for the fourth time in six months outstripped the “older comrades” PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in terms of the number of consoles sold in the United States.

The developer of Angry Birds named the preliminary value of its securities. At the time of the company’s entry into the stock market, the price of each will be from € 10.25 to €11.50. The capitalization of the entire Rovio will be in the region of €802-896 million.

In the two years since its release on iOS, the Fallout Shelter audience has grown to 100 million people.

Korean developer Pearl Abyss is preparing to go public after the commercial success of the role-playing MMO Black Desert Online.

Gaming revenues of the 25 largest public companies in the world in the 1st half of 2017 increased by 20% to $41.1 billion compared to the first half of 2016.