Starbreeze Studios acquired a 90.5% stake in Indian outsourcing studio Dhruva Interactive for $8.5 million.

The analytical company Quantic Foundry, during a survey of 250 thousand people, identified the most common types of motivations among players.

Swedish indie company Stillfront Group has acquired 100% of the publisher of mobile social games Babil Games, based in Dubai and Amman, for $ 17 million.

On the first day of release, Super Mario Run topped the box office top apps in 8 countries, including the USA, Canada and Germany.

Kaliningrad company HeroCraft continues to share with App2Top the story of how, despite the loss of the license for the famous Disciples brand, it was working on the game Lords of Discord.

Farmville developers are going to establish a new office. It will appear not far from Russia – in Finland.

One of the main third-party projects based on Defold today remains the isometric cooperative shooter SMASH BASH: Date with the Desert, developed by the indie studio Rising Wave. We talked about the history of the project, engines and difficulties in developing turn-based tactics and action games with the project producer Yaroslav Kravtsov.

In free-play games, only 2% of players pay. Developers try to monetize the rest through advertising. AppsFlyer has implemented functionality that allows you to see the LTV of users from advertising and the total LTV.

Why open worlds are not always the best solution for a game with a plot – using the example of the Batman Arkham series as part of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle, Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.

The upcoming Unity 5.6 will be the latest version of Unity 5. After its release, the engine switches to a new life cycle.

The founder of Strategic Music in his personal YouTube channel during a skirmish with users said that he spent the money collected during crowdfunding on Fallout 4 on vacation. As it turned out: the service with which the money was collected, Strategic Music did not give them away.

PinOut from the Swedish Mediocre team became the leader in iOS downloads among games in November. On Google Play, the first place is taken by Danish Subway Surfers.

Advertising can be a good solution for additional monetization. But if the game already has in-app purchases, then you need to add ads very carefully so as not to break the balance and not anger the players. Appodeal together with Webgames told how they were able to increase LTV with the help of in-game video advertising.

Canadian HTML5 game developer Big Viking has signed a five-year deal with comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment. Subject of the contract: creation of mobile games based on the IP publishing house.

Improbable launches the open alpha of the SpatialOS platform, which allows you to run MMO games without restrictions from the server.

Following Google, Nintendo announced its plans to change the prices of digital products in Russia due to the new law.

The authors of the unsuccessful Midnight Star mobile shooter received an investment of $1.4 million for a new project – the midcore action role-playing Exiles of Embermark.

The lead designer of GWENT and senior designer of Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077 left CD Projekt RED for another Polish company – Techland.

The conference for game developers GDC Europe is closing. Now the GDC will be held only in the USA.