Why do we need a split art test and how to conduct it correctly, – says marketing analyst at Kongregate Heather Gainer (Heather Gainer).

Employees of the Finnish studio Almost Human, known for the indie role-playing game Legend of Grimrock, founded their own company Alt Ctrl Ninja.

The head of the Double Fine studio, Tim Schafer, advised novice indie developers not to place high hopes on the first day of sales of their games.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 following Titanfall 2 and Mass Effect: Andromeda will not receive a season pass for future DLC. Instead, EA promised users “something different.”

Briefly about the most important materials of last week in our traditional digest.

The head of the streaming division of the publisher Devolver Digital, JM Specht, explained how a game project can benefit from streams and letsplays.

The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation has transferred esports to the second section of the All-Russian Register, which includes sports developed at the national level: football, hockey and others.

On April 13, the narrative arcade game Full of Stars from the Polish studio AtGames, known for the Puzzle Craft series, was released in the App Store. Why the novelty is worth the obligatory attention is in our short note.

Sony has presented the chart of the most downloaded games in the American PlayStation Store for March of this year. The top was headed by Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands from Ubisoft.

Social service Snapchat has introduced a number of tools for advertisers.

King company together with the Italian brand Moschino has released a line of clothing and accessories in the Candy Crush Saga theme.

The release of the Nintendo Switch in March of this year was the best console launch in the history of Nintendo.

App Annie has published lists of the most popular and profitable mobile games in March 2017. Dragon Nest and Ballz were among the most successful projects of the month.

The monthly active audience of the Facebook Messenger messaging service has reached 1.2 billion,” said the head of the project, David Marcus.

On April 12, a reissue of the cult RPG by Chris Avellone was released on Steam, GOG, as well as on the App Store and Google Play platforms.

Autodesk has released a new version of the editor for 3D modeling 3ds MAX 2018.

Downloads of VR games and apps from the App Store and Google Play in 2016 reached 226 million, which is 276% more than in 2015.

A report by Yulia Lebedeva from Nevosoft at White Nights Prague 2017. She talked about how the Digital Star tool works.

The VKontakte social network allowed all users to broadcast from desktop computers and mobile devices .