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.

The head of the financial service of Holt of California appropriated $4.9 million to his company. He spent $1 million of them on the game Game of War (MZ).

The German company Crytek, famous for the CryEngine engine and the Crysis series of games, delays the salaries of its employees.

Supercell continues to develop the brand of its Clash series. Last week, the first two ten-minute episodes of the animated series Clash-A-Rama were released on YouTube. The writers and producers of Futurama and Simpson are responsible for the creation.

Obsidian dismisses some of the employees who worked on Armored Warfare. This is related to the solution Mail.Ru Group to move part of the development to Moscow.

We tell you about the studios whose games are or have been Greenlighted on Steam. The first material is about the Double Dice Games team and its Willy–Nilly Knight project. The project is a role–playing game with a turn-based combat system and a plot of 40 thousand words.

Google shared recordings of lectures on game development and launch from its own Playtime conferences. Speakers include Space Ape Games, Seriously and Kabam.

French media giant Vivendi continues to increase its stake in Ubisoft. The company already owns 25% of the developer of the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series.

After 3.6 million downloads on mobile, HeroCraft is porting a tactical strategy with elements of the Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf card battler to PC and changing its monetization.

Sony will release Project Field, an interactive whiteboard for board card games. The device is designed to “change the approach to card games.”

Apple has named the best games and apps of 2016 in the Russian App Store. The first place in the “Games” category was taken by Clash Royale.

For the three-dimensional cartoon “Moana”, Disney has released a mobile farm “Moana: Paradise Island“. The project was developed by Game Insight.

Minimalistic game Agar.io Miniclip has received 113 million downloads from the publisher.