Industry August 18, 2017 Valve: restrictions on Steam keys will affect only fraudsters Valve intends to stop issuing Steam store game keys to the authors of “gambling-like projects” created for the sake of manipulating the trading platform’s capabilities.
Industry August 18, 2017 Downloads of the Pixel Gun 3D mobile shooter have reached 100 million The total downloads of the cube shooter for Pixel Gun 3D mobile platforms amounted to more than 100 million. It took the game 4 years to do this.
Industry August 18, 2017 Sales of role-playing games increased by 50% compared to 2016 Dollar sales of role-playing video games in the first 8 months of 2017 increased by more than 50% compared to the same period in 2016. The growth was provided by a line of strong releases from eastern and Western studios.
Marketing August 18, 2017 Game Performance Indicators: Social LTV What can be learned by calculating Social LTV, as well as how to do it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.
Industry August 18, 2017 25% of Overwatch players who left – went to Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds The popularity of the shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) beats the performance of competitors. Among those players who stopped playing Overwatch in July, 25% play Battlegrounds.
Industry August 18, 2017 To attract a new audience, a story mode is introduced in World of Tanks In the tank multiplayer blockbuster Wargaming, there will be story PvE campaigns that can be carried out alone. One of the tasks of the update is to reach a new audience.
Industry August 18, 2017 Steam will limit the issuance of game keys to developers Valve will stop uncontrollably issuing developers any number of game keys. The service explained this by fighting the sale of keys on third-party sites bypassing Steam.