Canadian mobile game developer Hibernum Creations has laid off most of the studio’s staff — over 100 employees.

Korean studio Pearl Abyss for the first time showed a gameplay teaser of the mobile role-playing MMO Black Desert Mobile, which can become a competitor to Lineage M from NCsoft.

Which search queries related to games were most popular in the territories of the USA and Russia in July, – App2Top.ru the representative of AdvertMobile told.

According to the results of the 2nd quarter of 2017, the Chinese corporation Tencent earned more on mobile games for the first time than on PC titles.

Russian game designer Anton Telitsyn told Kotaku about the plan to raise the Lord Coin cryptocurrency market in the Lordmancer II mobile MMO project, which can be mined in the game and converted into real money.

In his interview with the Russian Forbes, Mobirate CEO Anton Belov said that his company spends $ 200 thousand on the development of one game.

Indie studio Butterscotch Shenanigans has announced 500 thousand copies of the Crashlands survival simulator sold.

How to work correctly on events in free–play games, what should not be done, and what, on the contrary, should be paid attention to, – he told App2Top.ru the leading game designer of Rocket Jump Andrey Tarasenko.

The Russian company 1C Company and the Dutch game publishing house Soedesco in partnership will start publishing indie titles on physical media.

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

The role-playing action Path of Exile has updated the attendance record, simultaneously gathering more than 98 thousand gamers on Steam after the release of The Fall of Oriath supplement on August 4.

The author of Resident Evil 2 and Bayonetta, Hideki Kamiya, called the director of the Nier game series Yoko Taro “the savior of the PlatinumGames studio.”

The passion for shooters can lead to a decrease in the volume of gray matter in the brain, which makes a person vulnerable to depression and contributes to the development of Alzheimer’s disease in old age.

The domestic survival Last Day on Earth: Survival from the Volgograd studio Kefir took the sixth place in downloads in the world on the Google Play platform last month.

There was a story that Tencent invested in the South Korean developer Bluehole Studio, who created the main blockbuster of this summer – the online shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). The developer refutes the story.

Rovio’s revenues for the 2nd quarter of this year increased by 94% to €86.2 million due to good sales of the Angry Birds franchise and the success of the full-length cartoon Angry Birds Movie.

The mobile PvP shooter Critical Ops by the Finnish developer Critical Ops has been downloaded more than 25 million times, with the game gaining the last 10 million downloads in less than six months.

In November, separate application promotion tools in Google will be closed. It will no longer be possible to create advertising campaigns for Google Search or YouTube. They will be replaced by one universal solution – UAC.

Jan Miczaika, former chief operating officer of the German mobile casual developer studio Wooga, will support startups in the venture company Holtzbrinck Ventures.