The South Korean company Smilegate is looking for developers in the United States and Europe to expand its business in the Western video game market and promote the Crossfire shooter.

ZeniMax Media last week filed a lawsuit against the South Korean corporation Samsung.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on blocking a number of services of Russian companies Yandex and Mail.Ru Group.

Rewarded ads can increase user retention in the app several times.

Com2uS stated that Summoners War was the first Korean game whose earnings amounted to ₩1 trillion (that’s $890 million). By the summer, the company expects that the total earnings of the game for all time will reach $ 1 billion.

Learn more about building functions to metrics such as LTV and retention App2Top.ru Ivan Ignatov, the general producer of the Overmind studio, told us. Caution: a lot of formulas.

Nintendo is developing a game from The Legend of Zelda series for mobile platforms, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports, citing sources close to the company.

Video game sales brought Sega Sammy Group of companies 94.4 billion ($833 million) in revenue in fiscal year 2017, according to the organization’s report.

South Korean publisher Netmarble has conducted an initial public offering (IPO). The company’s market capitalization was $12.2 billion.

OVIVO, a black–and-white indie platformer from the St. Petersburg team IzHard, was released on Steam.

The lead developer and designer of Civilization V, John Shafer, has joined the staff of Paradox Interactive.

Revenue (EBITA) of mobile developer Gameloft in the 1st quarter of 2017 decreased to $3.2 million against $5.4 million that the company earned in the previous quarter.

Chinese corporation Tencent invests $90 million in mobile developer Pocket Gems.

The organizers of the White Nights gaming business conference have published a preliminary schedule of the summer session, which will be held in St. Petersburg.

The PAYDAY 2 franchise revenues amounted to 23.7 million Swedish kronor ($2.6 million), according to a report by Starbreeze for the 1st quarter of 2017.

The developer of the SpatialOS cloud operating environment, the British company Improbable, received $502 million from SoftBank investor.

Konami company in fiscal year 2017 earned ¥36.4 billion ($319 million), according to a report by the Japanese company.

In the first quarter of 2017, NCSOFT was paid $35 million in royalties from sales of the Lineage 2 Revolution mobile game.

The revenues of the Japanese Internet provider and game publisher DeNA at the end of fiscal year 2016 amounted to 143.8 billion ($1.2 billion).