More than half of the participants of the Top 10 largest public corporations (whose shares are traded on the stock market without restrictions) in the world are key players in the gaming industry.

A report by Microsoft technical evangelist Martin Simecek at White Nights Prague 2017. He talks about how cloud technologies can be used for game development.

A report by Eugen Harton from Bohemia Interactive at White Nights Prague 2017. He tells what he learned from the experience of launching DayZ in early access on Steam.

Sergey Babaev, Vice President of Strategy at Moscow Nekki, is leaving the company.

The creative director of Assassin’s Creed 3 and Far Cry 4, Alex Hutchinson, has announced his departure from Ubisoft.

Sony is disappointed with the sales of PlayStation VR (PSVR) virtual reality systems and has thought about alternative markets for the technology — such as local gaming halls.

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

Kabam studio, bought by Netmarble, has released a new fighting game about transformers. We look at her with both eyes.

After 14 months of softlonch, Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare, a strategy from the Ulyanovsk studio Mobirate, was released. App2Top.ru I talked to its executive director Anton Belov.

The winners of the annual British Academy Games Awards have been named. The award ceremony was held on April 6 in London.

Gearbox Software demanded that the G2A digital store provide users with free protection against fraud.

Polish studio CD Project RED reported that it registered the word “Cyberpunk” as a trademark solely for the sake of protecting the rights to its own project “Cyberpunk 2077”.

A report by Markus Tessmann from InnoGames. The speaker talks about the modifications of meshes in the runtime environment.

The YouTube platform has introduced restrictions on the monetization of channels with less than 10 thousand views.

On April 6, Microsoft revealed the technical specifications of the new Xbox Project Scorpio console. Based on these data, the first forecasts for the price of the console appeared.

We have updated the list of gaming conferences and central industrial events on the site. We have contributed about 30 events that will be held this year from April to November.

A report by Josh Naylor from Unity. The speaker talks about Unity optimization methods that will help avoid interruptions in the game and make it smooth.

The CEO of the studio that developed Pokémon GO considers VR games to be a threat to modern society.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga announced the formation of a new team in Stockholm (Sweden) and announced that it will create a mobile Call of Duty.