On January 23, an HD edition of the classic Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter was released on Steam on Greenlight. On this occasion, we talked about the history of the game with Igor Karev, responsible for its creation and reissue.

In the gaming industry, $30.3 billion worth of transactions were carried out in 2016. Most of them came from mergers and acquisitions, and the smaller part came from investments.

As part of a major Windows 10 update, Microsoft will introduce a number of new features aimed at gamers: a gaming section in the settings, streaming from the system, a game panel and a game mode that increases the performance of games.

The company has released the Lumberyard Beta 1.7 beta, which includes 403 improvements and fixes. The main focus in the updated version is on the UI and UX of the engine.

The developer of Candy Crush Saga bought the analytical and marketing service Omniata for an undisclosed amount.

The authors of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale admitted that they underestimated the competition in the freeplay games market and worked incorrectly with the players.

On February 14, White Nights will host a session with Chet Faliszek, one of Valve’s leading screenwriters and a VR specialist on the Steam platform. We invite him to ask interesting questions so that he can answer them publicly at the conference.

With the release of iOS 10.3, developers will be allowed to respond to user comments in the App Store. How this will affect the work with the audience, App2Top was told by representatives of ZeptoLab, Mail.Ru Games, IGG, devtodev and Publisher Wanted.

In Russia, the latest generation of Sony consoles is the leader in sales. But the Xbox One game console has recently been showing great growth rates.

Hamburg-based company Goodgame Studios will lay off 200 people. The company explains the decision by increasing competition in the market of free-play games.

The authors of Pillars of Eternity published The Road To Eternity movie on YouTube, in which they told how the studio came to develop a retro project on Unity and what problems it encountered during its creation.

Melsoft founder Alexey Meleshkevich told Pavel Ryakkonen in an interview about the history of the studio, its best projects and internal processes.

How users of Russia and China relate to game abbreviations, mat and small print in localizations, the company All Correct Games told.

Can the price of an app affect its visibility and position in the App Store? – ASOdesk and Kindermatica received the answer to this question as part of a joint study.

In the center of the Finnish city of Oulu, Fingersoft has launched the Oulu Game Campus, a giant incubator that will collect everything necessary for the development of gaming teams and their creation of projects.

How to draw an attacking character in pixel art or how to add emotion to it, – artist Sandy Gordon told in infographics.

Live testing of applications that do not require downloading a distribution kit and installation to work has started on Android.

Laralyn McWilliams, who participated in the development of Gears of War 4, Full Spectrum Warrior and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, shared tips on game development in her blog on Gamasutra. We share the Russian version of the material.

A round table on gaming economics and analytics will be held at the upcoming White Nights conference in Prague. We suggest coming up with questions for him. The authors of the two best questions will receive a free premium ticket to the conference.