The demand for collectible titles in retail will always remain, despite falling sales of physical copies, says Philip Brock, PR director of THQ Nordic publishing house.

Unity Technologies has updated the Projects blog platform to demonstrate its games, programs and developments on the Unity engine to version 2.0.

The indicator that allows you to assess the stability of the user base is called “Stickiness” (“Sticky Factor”). Is there a correlation between it and the revenue of the game, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova.

On September 29, the Finnish company Rovio Entertainment held a preliminary placement of shares on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange, following which it was valued at €950 million.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has acquired less than 5% of the shares of Bluehole Studios, which created the popular PvP action game Playerunknowns Battlegrounds.

The Chinese company Snail Digital sued the Fox film company for unproven assistance and financial assistance in the development of games based on the film War for the Planet of the Apes, which is why the start of projects was disrupted.

What are the four steps you need to take before you start writing a game concept and development, – said Playbeat product manager Alexandra Shtachenko.

The Israeli creator of mobile strategies Plarium has acquired the studio Rumble Entertainment, known for its role-playing games for social networks and mobile.

In Moscow, at White Nights, one of the round tables will be devoted to working with video bloggers while promoting the game. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Mamorset company has introduced a new version of the editor for creating vector graphics and animation Hexels 3.

The second game of independent developer Tom Francis (Tom Francis) Heat Signature in the first week after release overtook the sales of his debut title Gunpoint, also successful.

On September 22, the Vacuum startup was announced — a gaming and trading platform for the placement, sale and exchange of digital copies of video games, on which the calculation will take place using cryptocurrency.

In three months, the cost of Bluehole Studios, which released PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), has increased fivefold. Today, the company could be worth $4.6 billion.

The turnover of the segment of fritupley MMOs is growing fastest in the digital games market. According to SuperData, this August its global sales volume jumped by 28% compared to August last year.

App Annie has published ratings of the most earning and most downloaded Google Play apps in Europe “for all time”. Two applications from the ratings are made by Russian developers – Gardenscapes and VK .

Over 30 people were fired from Volition Studio, known for the Saints Row series of games and the new Agents of Mayhem title.

American mobile publisher Zynga announced plans to double operations in India and invest in the development of its office in Bangalore.

The “battle royale” mode for Epic Games’ Fortnite action game gathered over 1 million gamers on its launch day on September 26.

Wanted: a game designer at Kefir Studio, a partner manager at AlternativaPlatform and an environment artist at Banzai Games.