Blizzard President Michael Morhaime announced his intention to attract new personnel by recruiting women and representatives of social minorities as part of the program “increasing diversity and engagement”.

What is loyalty, how to calculate it, why it may be needed? These and other questions are answered by devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance Indicators of games”.

The Japanese publisher of online games Nexon earned $431.7 million in the second quarter of 2017, increasing revenue by 23% compared to last year thanks to mobile titles and the success of the Dungeon Fighter Online MMO bitmap in China.

In the US, parents filed a second lawsuit against mobile developers in a week. Residents of California have accused Disney and Unity of illegally collecting personal data of children in mobile games.

The casual runner Rodeo Stampede by Featherweight Games studio has gained more than 80 million downloads in 13 months since its release.

On August 1, the release of the domestic Redeemer browser from Sobaka Studio took place. How long the game was developed and how the team chose the publisher, – App2Top.ru I asked the head of the studio Dmitry Kachkov.

From April to June 2017 Mail.Ru The Group earned 3.8 billion rubles on MMO games. This is 53.6% more than last year for the same period.

The list of billionaire games has been replenished. The elite club includes Summoners War, a game from the Korean developer Com2uS.

The gaming division of the Chinese Internet company NetEase earned $1.4 billion in the second quarter of this year. The entire revenue of the organization during this time amounted to $ 2 billion.

Mobile publisher Zynga has conducted a three-in-a-row Rangoli Rekha: Color Match mobile puzzle softlonch in India, developed by a local studio from Bangalore. The visual range of the games contains references to Indian folk culture.

The first game funded on the Fig crowdfunding platform — Kingdoms and Castles — brought profit to investors in the amount of their investments in the first two weeks of sales.

The Israeli game developer and publisher Plarium was acquired for $500 million by the public company Aristocrat, the largest manufacturer of slot machines in Australia.

Kongregate publishing house announced the foundation of a $10 million fund to promote games from independent developers on PC and consoles.

The analytical company Newzoo has prepared a monthly rating of the 20 most popular PC games. It is compiled based on the number of unique gaming sessions of each title.

One of the most anticipated games of 2016, No Man’s Sky, a year after its release, justified its name — the title was literally depopulated, having lost 99% of the audience.

An 82-year-old Japanese woman has developed and released a mobile game called Hinadan for the App Store.

Beijing-based mobile game developer ZPlay has bought a 70% stake in Canadian indie publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million.

Valve has announced the development of a new title based on MOBA Dota — a collectible card game Artifact.

Ubisoft has announced the launch of a new studio in the Swedish capital. The Stockholm office was headed by Patrick Bach, who resigned as CEO of EA DICE at the end of last year.