Sega Sammy Group summed up the results of fiscal year 2017 (ended March 31, 2018). According to the company’s report, Sega earned ¥57 billion ($522 million) from the sale of physical copies of its games, while digital sales of titles generated ¥38.5 billion ($352 million).

Report by Alexey Izvalov from Enhance. The speaker spoke about how, when developing a game, indie teams overlook important details that seem obvious at first glance.

Nexon, a major publisher of online games, reported a 21% increase in revenue in the 1st quarter of 2018. The company earned ¥90.5 billion ($825 million), and its net profit increased by 134% compared to the same period last year and reached ¥46.6 billion ($425 million).

California studio Blind Squirrel Games has reduced one tenth of its staff due to the sudden cancellation of work on an unnamed project. Blind Squirrel Games is known as the creator of HD remasters for games of the Bioshock and Borderlands series.

Report by Alexander Simakhin from Drunken Monday. The speaker spoke about what problems can be encountered during the development of a mobile multiplayer mode in real time, and what solutions are available that have been tested in real projects.

Briefly about what conversion is and how you can work with it, — he told in the framework of a series of articles “School of Promotion” Nikolay Marchenko, media buyer at Mobio.

The organizers of the White Nights conference for game developers have launched the next Indie Game Cup, a competition for game projects from independent teams. Representatives of Amazon and Appodeal, among others, will choose the best.

Japanese gaming company SNK has announced a retro Neo Geo mini console. The device looks like a miniature automaton from the era of arcade halls with video games.

Game designer Brian Hicks announced his resignation from the position of creative director of the survival MMO action movie DayZ, which is being developed by the Czech studio Bohemia Interactive. In a farewell message, the game designer wrote that he no longer needed the project.

The Japanese corporation Bandai Namco officially closed the 2017 fiscal year (ended March 31 of this year). The company ended the reporting period on the rise — both total revenues and revenue of the Network Entertainment segment, which includes video games, increased.

Steam expands the possibilities for remote playback of games and videos. From the second half of May, users of the Valve platform will be able to play titles and watch videos from their libraries on mobile devices through the Steam Link and Steam Video applications.

Wanted: art producer at G5, leading community manager at Playkot, programmer at MyTona, and bizdev at Nekki.

The update for Google’s Chrome browser caused unforeseen difficulties for developers and gamers. After the update in Chrome, the sound stopped working in some browser games created on HTML5.

Conan Exiles, the developer and publisher of the MMO survival, the Norwegian studio Funcom, announced that the game had sold over 1 million copies by the date of its official release. Conan Exile officially launched today, May 8th.

Canadian scientists from Queens University have found out what spoils the impression of video games. It turned out that bad game design annoys players the most when the gameplay is not exciting and makes them bored.

The creators of the free-play action movie Loadout from the Edge of Reality studio have announced the imminent end of the project. The reason was the new regulation on user data protection (GDPR) for EU countries. Edge of Reality said that adjusting the game to the GDPR requirements would cost them too much, so it’s easier to close Loadout.

In the next 5 years, the Chinese mobile games market will maintain and strengthen its global leadership. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, by 2022 the number of gamers in China will exceed 1 billion people, and mobile games will generate more than half of all gaming revenue.

Report by Eldar Alizadeh from UPP. The speaker talked about what to pay attention to when creating a trailer for the game so that it attracts users.

The British game publisher Team17 has announced preparations to enter the London Stock Exchange this month. According to the preliminary assessment of the company itself, its market value of the company will be from £200 to £230 million.