The former president of Rockstar North Leslie Benzies (Leslie Benzies), after being fired from the developer studio Grand Theft Auto, launched several businesses at once.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, the total earnings of mobile games were 70% more than in the fourth quarter of 2015.

At an extraordinary meeting, shareholders of the Megafon operator approved the purchase of 15.2% of the Internet giant’s share capital Mail.Ru Group for $740 million.

Nevosoft has updated the program of the February White Nights session, which will be held in the Czech capital. The developers of Steam, Vikings, Angry Birds and Candy Crush will also make presentations.

Sergey Kopov, who headed the publishing division of HeroCraft, announced his departure from the company.

In the first month of sales, the Lineage 2: Revolution mobile game earned $176.6 million from 5 million users in its native market.

At the end of December, the hardcore mobile strategy Navy Power: Warships from ONI Studio was released on the App Store as part of the softlonch. We talked with the producer of the project, Pyotr Prokhorenko, about the history of game development and about the features of the genre.

During the week of global promotion on Google Play, the game from the Russian developer Pixonic received a million downloads.

What is important to remember when developing quests, — Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told 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.

Former employees of Techland, CD Projekt Red and IO Interactive founded the studio Strange New Things in Poland.

GitHyp published the top five most popular games on Twitch at the end of last year. There are no indie games in the tops. There are few newcomers.

The Google platform briefly described how the features introduced into the games affected their performance. The story was published as part of a series of videos about developers for Android.

The French publisher Ubisoft announced the purchase of the studio FreeStyleGames from Activision. The studio is known for DJ Hero and multiplatform Guitar Hero Live.

According to unofficial data, the chemical giant from China acquired the Slovenian developer and publisher of Outfit7 games for € 1 billion.

devtodev analytical service has released a 34-page tutorial on how to properly evaluate and conduct promotions for virtual goods in games.

During the airtime of American television channels, gaming companies spent $85.8 million in the last month of 2016.

The authors of Limbo and INSIDE did not divide the company. As a result of the conflict, one of the founders of the company was paid $7.2 million to leave.

The authors of Magic: The Gathering have created a new development studio, Digital Games Studio, which will rethink the company’s digital products, and a digital publishing division.

Game developers should not take up the creation of esports games for mobile platforms,” a Twitch representative said at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017.