Developer Lars Doucet presented a detailed analysis of the most common game engines on Steam. To do this, together with the SteamDB website, he collected a large amount of data about the titles in the Valve store and the tools with which they were made.

Sensor Tower analysts spoke about the fastest growing themes, settings and artistic styles in mobile games in the USA. For example, projects about “traitors” were included in the list of leaders — only Among Us American gamers spent almost $8 million in the first half of 2021.

Now India is one of the fastest growing gaming markets not only in Southeast Asia, but also around the world. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, its turnover may soon reach $ 1 billion.According to analysts, the growth of the Indian video game market was influenced by the following factors:

How many game advertisers there are on the mobile market, how many creatives per game there are on average per year and how the CPC on Facebook has grown over the year, — the Chinese analytical company SocialPeta told in its latest report. About the most interesting — in our material.

Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic boosted the revenue of the video game industry around the world. The markets of European countries were no exception, whose total revenue in 2020 for the first time exceeded the €23.3 billion mark. Console titles brought the most money, and FIFA 21 became the best-selling game.

Analytical companies App Annie and AppsFlyer have prepared a voluminous study of the Latin American mobile market based on the results of the first quarter of 2021. In the report: data on player spending, downloads and marketing indicators. We have chosen the most important thing.

Analysts from Sensor Tower have published a large study of the US mobile advertising market. The report lists the key sites and advertisers focused on the gaming market. We have prepared a squeeze in Russian.Call of Duty: Mobile

In July, Americans spent $4.6 billion on video games, hardware and accessories, according to analysts from the NPD Group. Iron sales grew the most in annual terms. This was largely due to the high demand for the PlayStation 5.The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD

A new day, a new report. This time from App Annie, which has prepared a giant document about the mobile games market. It covers the first half of 2021. We have prepared a squeeze in Russian.

The solitaire/mahjong subcategory is rarely mentioned. The casual direction dedicated to collecting cards/knuckles seems to be underestimated. At the same time, it performs well in commercial terms, as the Sensor Tower analytical company clearly shows in the latest study.

Last summer, the “Games to Be” demo festival was held on Steam for the first time. Since then, Valve has held three more such events. In its blog, the company told how they affected the number of vishlist and game sales.

By the end of July App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

The analytical company GameRefinery summed up the results of the second quarter and told about the main mobile genres and publishers in the USA, Japan and China. For example, American gamers like to play puzzles and give a lot of money to Roblox — it accounts for over 5% of the country’s gaming revenue.

Last year, Riot Games began actively releasing full—fledged mobile games – previously it had only mini-applications on its account. The analytical company Sensor Tower found out that to date, mobile has brought developers $ 108.4 million *.

The analytical company Newzoo has published an analysis of the mobile market of Saudi Arabia. It contains the gaming demographics of the country, the payment habits of local gamers and the most popular genres.

The lack of large offline tournaments has not prevented the growth of esports. According to analysts from Niko Partners, last year the turnover of this market amounted to almost $ 1 billion. At the same time, more than half of all revenue came from Asian countries.Key data from the report

Mobile card battlers are on the rise right now. According to Sensor Tower, they became the fastest growing category in the strategy genre in the second quarter. And the highest-grossing title of the first half of the year turned out to be Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links.The main thing from the report

Mobile action games were the fastest-growing genre at the box office in the United States, according to analysts at Sensor Tower. In the first half of 2021, their total revenue jumped by half. More than a third of the amount was generated by Genshin Impact.

Analysts from Sensor Tower told which games were downloaded the most in the second quarter (ended June 30). In Europe and the USA, hyper-casual titles are leading — only some games managed to overtake them in terms of downloads. But in Asian stores, the situation is slightly different from global trends.Hair Challenge