Electronic Arts has clarified its policy regarding loot boxes in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. EA assured that gamers will be able to get almost all the game content without additional investments.

Why is blockchain not a soap bubble? Is it even for a long time? How difficult is it to figure it out? How much will it change the market? Waves Marketing Director Alexandra Pestretsova answers these questions.

Amazon Internet Corporation has launched a Retro Zone section on its trading platform, where it promotes mobile versions of classic console games of the 80s − 90s of the XX century.

Japanese mobile developer GREE has reported on the results of the last quarter. The company’s revenues grew by 45%, but profits fell by 84.2% compared to the same period last year.

A report by Andrey Ivashentsev from Game Insight. The speaker spoke about the rapidly changing mobile AR technologies, and also shared some insights about the current and planned AR projects of Game Insight and their prospects.

Konami reported half—year revenues of $1 billion, of which $506 million was generated by video games.

In the first half of the year, sales of Sony’s Games and Network Services division increased by 131% to $6.9 billion compared to the same period last year.

Game Dev-edition 80.lv drew attention to Bolt — a toolkit for visual programming of games on the Unity engine.

Wanted: game designer and community manager at Pixonic, game programmer at Nevosoft, editor at Rocket Jump, lead artist at Social Quantum and mobile product manager at 1C.

Swedish mobile developer MAG Interactive acquired the regional studio FEO Media for $9.7 million with the help of funds provided by the Microcap fund of Swedbank Robur.

Nintendo has presented statistics on the use of game modes of the Nintendo Switch hybrid console by gamers.

Report by Igor Klyukin from Pixonic. The speaker shared his experience on how to avoid frequent mistakes and what to pay attention to when working on a project.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recognized competitive esports as a type of sports activity that “can provide a platform for interaction with the Olympic movement.”

Sales of the three-dimensional platformer Super Mario Odyssey for Nintendo Switch exceeded 2 million copies in 3 days after the release of the game on October 27, according to the presentation of the Nintendo company for the financial half of the year.

The authors of the mobile hit Pokémon GO studio Niantic are dissatisfied with the game Draconius Go by the Ukrainian developer Elyland because of the similarity with their project, the business publication Forbes reports. It is reported that Niantic has notified Elyland of copyright infringement.

The Icelandic studio CCP has curtailed work on projects in virtual reality and does not plan to develop new similar titles.

Sega reported on the total game sales of the Persona and Megami Tensei role-playing series, and also disclosed the full sales numbers of other game franchises in the annual report.

Report by Igor Petrov from MyTona. The speaker showed examples of how to use in-game events to make the game more successful in general.

53 million people play video games on Xbox One, Windows 10 and mobile apps every month, the company said in a report on the results of the 1st quarter of the current fiscal year.