Report by Kongregate Business Development Manager Melinda Montano. She talks about the pros and cons of launching games on new platforms after the release.

Dmitry Smith has assumed the post of President of the Russian Computer Sports Federation (FKSR). The change of leadership in the organization was announced by the first Vice-president of the FKSR Alexander Gorbachenko on his Facebook page.

The American company Zynga has acquired the rights to four versions of the solitaire card game for mobile devices from a relatively unknown developer Harpan LLC. The transaction amount was $42.5 million.

Gaming companies in February spent on airtime in In the United States, $73.6 million, $5.4 million of them fell on the authors of World of Tanks.

Additional costs for the production of a game cartridge for Switch may be the reason that multiplatform releases on the new Nintendo console will cost more than on Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

Since the beginning of global sales on March 3, over 1.5 million Nintendo Switches have been sold, with almost 90% of consoles released bundled with the new Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

What does the work on the content for the game for a popular international brand look like, using the example of Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf, the company HeroCraft told. We share their material.

Sony has announced the release of Playstation 4 games in the Playstation Now cloud gaming service. Gamers will be able to pay for a subscription and play on their console or PC.

The social network announced a change in its policy regarding developers and advertisers using Facebook to collect personal information about users.

Annual sales revenue from Swedish developer MAG Interactive increased to a record $29.5 million, and operating profit increased to $5.8 million.

Rickard Nordin, a politician from Sweden, conducts weekly Hearthstone streams on the Twitch platform. During the broadcasts, he discusses various issues with the viewers of his channel. In particular, Nordin is interested in esports.

Mobile publisher Animoca Brands from Hong Kong has raised more than $5 million in investment funds for the development of a series of media products dedicated to Garfield the cat.

On March 9, the world iOS release of the domestic MOBA – Planet of Heroes took place. The game has received a big banner in 80 countries.

On the Facebook Instant Games platform, most titles get a million downloads in the first week after launch. This was announced by the president and founder of Avallon Alliance Artur Ostapenko.

The analytical service DeltaDNA reported that the number of monthly audience coverage exceeded 100 million users. This indicator corresponds to the traffic of game publishers and developers receiving statistics from DeltaDNA.

Finnish studio Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that they have reached the milestone of 3.5 million copies of Cities: Skylines sold since the game was released in March 2015.

Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told about what the correct navigation in level design looks like as part of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.

The creator of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, Tim Schafer, shared his experience working on the reissue of gaming classics.

The analytical company App Annie presented the annual chart of the highest-grossing companies publishing mobile apps on Google Play and the App Store. For the first time since 2014, a Russian publisher, Playrix, appeared in it.