The Gamee company, which supplies users with mini-games via chatbots in messengers, received $2.2 million in seed investments.

In the latest versions of iOS and macOS, Apple has given developers the ability to directly respond to user reviews in the App Store.

According to the latest research by the analytical company DFC Intelligence, by 2021 mobile games will bring in $ 48 billion dollars — almost half of the expected annual turnover of the video game market of $ 100 billion.

The Apple Store has started to reject applications that advertise their price in the name, icons, screenshots or previews.

The online streaming platform Twitch intends to open its digital store with games and downloadable content for PC this week.

According to the analytical company SuperData, the leaders in digital sales in February 2017 were League of Legends, FIFA 17 and Lineage 2 Revolution.

Beamdog studio is preparing to release a reissue of the role-playing game Planescape: Torment.

Former Apple lead designer Michael Hillman has headed the Oculus VR hardware development department.

Silicon Studio has created a mathematical model that determines how soon a user will get bored in a mobile game.

According to research by investment management company Morgan Stanley, the Blizzard esports league can receive from $100 million annually.

The multiplayer survival simulator Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has collected more than $ 11 million in three days after its release on Steam.

The esports shooter for Critical Ops mobile platforms has reached 15 million downloads in 18 months in softlonch mode.

The development of esports around the world is accompanied by an increase in demand for ways to gain an unfair advantage in the virtual arena.

Thanks to the success of the Lords Mobile game, the Chinese developer I Got Games increased its revenue by 59% to $321.9 million last year.

The designers of IO Interactive told how they managed to develop most of the game levels using remote collection of information about places.

Game designer Chris Avellone said that the presentation of the plot in the Doctor Who series is great for computer game scenarios.

The crowdfunding platform Kickstarter marked the milestone of 10 thousand sponsored gaming projects.

The president of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima) said that the revenue from sales of Super Mario Run on iOS “did not meet their expectations.”

The Chinese publisher 37 Interactive reported financial results last year: the total turnover of the company amounted to $761.9 million, and revenue from mobile games reached $147.2 million, an increase of 978%.