This week, on May 23, the Russian team AurumDust launched a fundraising campaign to finalize the role-playing game Ash of Gods. A minimum of $75,000 is required to successfully complete the campaign. We talked with the founder of the studio, Nikolai Bondarenko, about the project and Kickstarter.

Poles from CD PROJEKT Group reported for the first quarter of 2017. From January to March, the authors of The Witcher earned $26.55 million (99.30 million zloty). The amount earned is 14% more than a year earlier for the same quarter.

Bungie plans to abandon the random selection of matches in the Destiny 2 MMO shooter and give players the opportunity to choose a company for themselves to pass game tests.

Microsoft has announced the release of the Xbox Game Pass subscription for Xbox One users from June 1 of this year. The service will be available in Of Russia.

The three-in-a-row Cookie Jam of the Californian developer Jam City (formerly SGN Games) has gained 100 million downloads.

66 companies earned the first million dollars on mobile apps in 2016 in the American App Store. This is almost twice as much as Google Play, where there were 39 of them.

In mid-April, a CG trailer for the Russian fighting game Shadow Fight 3 appeared on YouTube. In the first week, it collected 1 million views. App2Top asked the head of the CG department of Banzai Games, Evgeny Kyabura, how the work on the video was going.

Epic Games company in the blog of the Unreal Engine game engine announced the release of its new version – 4.16. One of the key features of the update was support for Nintendo Switch.

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

Finnish developer Motorious Entertainment received $894,000 investment to create a mobile game based on the car show Top Gear.

Danish studio IO Interactive has confirmed the layoffs of employees after news of the withdrawal from the Japanese company Square Enix.

ESforce Holding, which received $100 million of investments from businessman Alisher Usmanov’s USM Holding company, launched the streaming service Looch TV.

The revenues of Take-Two Interactive Software publishing house increased by 26% and amounted to $1.7 billion at the end of fiscal year 2017, according to the company’s report.

Sony has introduced The Creators initiative, in which well-known game developers recommend games to PlayStation Network (PSN) users.

The creator and owner of the gaming web publication “Kanobu” Haji Mahtiyev launched the RAWG service, combining the functions of a recommendation platform and a social network.

The private equity firm Silver Lake has invested $400 million in the developer of the Unity game engine, the California company Unity Technologies.

At the end of 2016, Hatch, a startup, was separated from Rovio into a separate company. He is developing a gaming Netflix for mobile devices. We talked about what exactly the service will be like with its co-founder Vesa Jutila.

The other day, on May 22, the GameMaker Studio game engine celebrated five years since the release of the first version.

The Finnish hit forge Supecell has acquired a large stake in the British Space Ape Games, known for such Clash of Clans clones as Samurai Siege and Rival Kingdoms.