The Danish studio IO Interactive summed up the results of the year since the launch of the last part of the Hitman game franchise.

The largest South Korean mobile gaming company will enter the stock market. Netmarble expects to get up to 2.7 trillion won ($2.4 billion) as part of the initial public offering.

Video with a report by Guy Ulmer from Plarium. He talks about his own vision of the design of strategic games.

Video with a report by Ilya Eremeev, producer of Game Insight. He talks about why it is worth conducting market research before the start of creating a game and how to do it.

Consoles, games and services of the Japanese corporation Sony occupied 57% of the console segment of the world market. Gamers spent $19.7 billion on them.

Online samurai battles with Vikings and knights in the action For Honor from Ubisoft were in the greatest demand among American gamers in February.

Since March 17, a permanent and possibly updated section dedicated exclusively to indie projects has appeared in the App Store.

Ino-Co Plus studio announced that its new project “The Code of Victory” (Codex of Victory) is published by 1C. The release took place on March 16.

A division of the Chinese tech giant Alibaba – Alibaba Games – has announced that it will “distribute” mobile games. The company plans to invest 1 billion yuan ($145.3 million) in the development of this direction.

Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner left the position of CEO of the studio this week.

An action game with role-playing elements Horizon Zero Dawn by the Dutch studio Guerrilla Games sold 2.6 million copies in two weeks after its release.

The Appodeal monetization platform has announced the acquisition of Corona Labs, the company that created the Corona cross-platform engine.

The number of one-time players in the online shooter H1Z1: King of the Kill has grown from 10 to 110 thousand in the last 6 months.

The analysis of the gameplay of Fire Emblem Heroes was offered on the pages of his blog by Motoi Okamoto, who led the work on Wii Fit and Super Mario 64 DS.  We share the translation of the material.

After the international success of Witcher 3 and Dark Souls III, the Japanese publisher Bandai Namco announced a desire to entrust more projects to European studios.

The tactical game Syrian Warfare by the Moscow studio Cats Who Play is available again on Steam. It was removed from the store on March 1 after a complaint to the Valve service about copyright infringement.

GitLab, a service for collaborative programming, announced the purchase of Gitter, a startup that allows developers to correspond while working together on a program. GitLab has promised to put the Gitter code in open access.

The Cooking Fever mobile game from Lithuanian developer Nordcurrent has gained 100 million downloads since its release in 2014. Thanks to the success of the project, a small family business has grown into a company with a staff of more than 100 people.

The developer and publisher of Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO and Deus Ex GO has published three short videos on his official YouTube page that highlight the history of project development. We share.