Report by Anton Ravin, Director of Business Development at 1C Publishing in Europe. He talked about how to launch games on Steam and shared the company’s experience.

The analytical service Newzoo has compiled a rating of the most popular streams of the Twitch platform for February 2017. Viewers spent the most hours on broadcasts of League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Hearthstone games.

Company Wargaming.net signed an agreement with 74 online stores on the accrual of game currency in World of Tanks for purchases at these sites. Depending on the amount spent, WoT players will receive “gold” to their account.

The Finnish company Supercell has launched a website where you can buy real things from the universes of its games.

Nintendo has shared three ten-minute videos dedicated to the development of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the main and so far the only blockbuster of the Switch console.

How a new direction in analytics – predictive – can help in creating a fritupley hit, – App2Top.ru devtodev specialists told us.

Members of the development team of World of Warcraft and League of Legends have opened an independent studio Frostkeep Studios.

Oculus is ready to spend over half a billion dollars to support developers of VR applications.

The developer of social games Roblox closed the investment round with a result of $ 92 million. With this money, the company will hire employees to support 48 million players of the monthly audience of the Roblox MMO sandbox.

Swedish publisher Starbreeze is investing $ 12 million in the creation of a third part of the sci-fi role-playing game System Shock and will receive 50% of the profits from its sales on PC other platforms.

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

Report by Alain Milly, Vice President of Anuman Interactive. He talks about the advantages of working with publishers in the modern market.

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.