The popularity of the rewarded video has led to the spread of a new monetization model – view-to-play. We asked Jamie Laes, founder of Futureplay Games and a supporter of this model, about working with her.

The creators of the game content for the Minecraft Marketplace store earned $1 million in two months of its existence.

Sales of the MMO shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds on Steam in less than 6 months exceeded 10 million copies.

How much time mobile users spend in games, the genres they prefer, how much they leave in projects – the answers to these questions depend on the country. So says Danielle Levitas, Vice President of Research at App Annie.

We continue the traditional publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert, founder of VALUES VALUE.

Kotaku news editor Jason Schreier has released a book Blood, Sweat and Pixels, in which he collected stories about the creation of 10 significant game projects.

In the upcoming MMO shooter Destiny 2, microtransactions and “silver” (Silver) – a virtual currency from the first part of the game, purchased for real money, may appear.

The total turnover of Swedish game studios has grown by 1000% over the past 7 years and reached €1.4 billion by the end of 2016. The industry has remained profitable for 8 years in a row.

The developer of Angry Birds has officially announced plans to enter the stock market. Rovio has big plans in connection with the initial placement.

Company Wargaming.net opened an office in Copenhagen based on Hapti Studio. Co, which was previously owned by IO Interactive, and has recently been floating freely.

The Indie Game Cup game project competition will be held again at White Nights in Moscow. Acceptance of applications has already begun and will last until the twentieth of September.

The Guillemot family acquired 1.75% of Ubisoft shares for an estimated €112.5 million. The purchase brought the ownership stake of Ubisoft by the Guillemot family to 15.35%, which gives it 20.02% of the shareholders’ votes.

King Company in partnership with Playstudios studio held a softlonch of its first game in the genre of social casino — Royal House Slots.

What should be remembered when pre–launching a mobile game, – says Andrey Zimenko, head of the Wargaming division for publishing mobile games.

Crytek has released a version of the CRYENGINE 5.4 Preview 6 engine. The update contains a library of particle editor presets and other novelties.

Microsoft has announced the start date of sales of mixed reality helmets — October 17. The cost of a set of headsets and controllers starts from $299.

The share of owners of the Oculus Rift VR headset in August increased by 8.1% compared to the previous month and reached 43.8% of the total number of owners of virtual reality helmets among Steam users.

In the summer of 2017, the Kaliningrad Tortuga Team released the fourth part of the turn-based strategy Braveland with the subtitle Heroes. We talked with the creative director of the studio Anton Mikhailov about how the work on the project was going.

Game designer John Romero has entered into an Internet controversy with id Software creative director Tim Willits. The day before, Willits said in an interview that it was he who came up with the idea of making separate maps for multiplayer shooters.