Ilya Salamatov’s report from 101XP at White Nights Prague 2017. As part of his speech, he talked about what mistakes should not be made when making deals.

Valve has introduced several changes to the game rating system on Steam. Now it does not take into account the ratings of gamers who have access to the game for free.

European scientists have presented research results proving the absence of a relationship between violent video games and a person’s propensity for violence.

YoYo Games has published the second version of the GameMaker Studio 2D game development toolkit.

Short videos about how content is created for these games appear on the official YouTube channels Hay Day and Boom Beach.

Hello Games announced the launch of the Hello Labs program to help developers of experimental game projects.

Louis Castle, a former co—founder of Westwood Studios, has been appointed head of the gaming division of the American corporation Amazon in Seattle.

The online project Ghost Recon: Wildlands on Steam on the day of release overtook the peak values of the game at the open beta stage.

The research company Newzoo has published an infographic with 10 key facts about the Zelda series of games.

Finnish developer Small Giant Games has closed an investment round of €5.4 ($5.7) million to promote its new Empires & Puzzles game.

App2Top.ru He continues to post videos of reports from the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. Next up is a report by Michael Schade, founder of Fishlabs and ROCKFISH Games. In his speech, he told about the history of both studios and the difficult path from mobile to PC.

The co-president of the developer of the Uncharted series, Christophe Balestra, will leave Naughty Dog next month.

App2Top.ru He continues to post videos of reports from the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. Next up is a public interview with Nikola Cavic, Director of Business Development at Nordeus. The central topic of the conversation with Nikola was working on projects under license.

Emily Greer, co-founder and CEO of the Kongregate gaming portal, posted on Twitter a graph of the use of various browser game engines.

China has banned all new mobile games from developers from South Korea due to political and military differences between the governments of Asian countries.

The publisher of Modern War and Dragon Soul announced the dismissal of an unnamed number of employees of the company’s branch in San Francisco.

The Finnish company Rovio has sold an animation studio and a book publishing house to its former CEO Mikael Hed.

Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) reported that the turnover of the South Korean gaming market in 2015 reached $9.3 billion and should exceed $9.5 billion by the end of 2016.

The entertainment division of the Chinese chemical company Jinke has acquired the British studio Outfit7, known for the media franchise “Talking Tom”.