The social network announced a change in its policy regarding developers and advertisers using Facebook to collect personal information about users.

Annual sales revenue from Swedish developer MAG Interactive increased to a record $29.5 million, and operating profit increased to $5.8 million.

Rickard Nordin, a politician from Sweden, conducts weekly Hearthstone streams on the Twitch platform. During the broadcasts, he discusses various issues with the viewers of his channel. In particular, Nordin is interested in esports.

Mobile publisher Animoca Brands from Hong Kong has raised more than $5 million in investment funds for the development of a series of media products dedicated to Garfield the cat.

On March 9, the world iOS release of the domestic MOBA – Planet of Heroes took place. The game has received a big banner in 80 countries.

On the Facebook Instant Games platform, most titles get a million downloads in the first week after launch. This was announced by the president and founder of Avallon Alliance Artur Ostapenko.

The analytical service DeltaDNA reported that the number of monthly audience coverage exceeded 100 million users. This indicator corresponds to the traffic of game publishers and developers receiving statistics from DeltaDNA.

Finnish studio Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that they have reached the milestone of 3.5 million copies of Cities: Skylines sold since the game was released in March 2015.

Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told about what the correct navigation in level design looks like as part of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.

The creator of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, Tim Schafer, shared his experience working on the reissue of gaming classics.

The analytical company App Annie presented the annual chart of the highest-grossing companies publishing mobile apps on Google Play and the App Store. For the first time since 2014, a Russian publisher, Playrix, appeared in it.

Report by Irina Tripapina from myTarget at White Nights Prague 2017. In her speech, she spoke about the peculiarities of the Russian mobile games market.

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.