The rating service GitHyp has brought disappointing statistics: VR versions of popular titles on Steam are hardly collected online by several hundred gamers.

Report by Marina Michkova from Yandex. Marina spoke about Yandex technologies for effective monetization of the entire audience of mobile applications.

The Unity game engine received a major update before Christmas. In version 2017.3, working with panoramic videos has been simplified and Xbox One X support has appeared.

The founder and CEO of the recruiting company VALUES VALUE Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko) told App2Top.ru about HR trends in the CIS gaming industry.

The fever of “royal battles” has spread to mobile. The Knives Out mobile PVP action game from the Chinese company NetEase scored over 100 million downloads during the open beta test, which began on November 3 and ended with the global release of the game on December 14.

The producer of the studio “Interactive Stories” Nikita Lyubimov told App2Top.ru , which events in the outgoing year hooked him the most.

Women are a more valuable customer in the mobile games market than men. The analytical company DeltaDNA reports that women’s spending in mobile titles is 44% higher than that of the stronger sex.

It’s worth going. A preliminary program of the conference has appeared on the White Nights Prague 2018 website. According to her, King, Supercell, Bandai Namco and many others will perform at the event.

Report by Alexander Neberekutin from DevGame. The speaker considered the balance in the game as an integral structure and answered a wide range of questions on building an economy based on user data.

Another representative of gamedev is preparing to enter the securities market. The capitalization of Sumo Group during the preliminary evaluation of the IPO on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) amounted to £145 million.

The third is superfluous. Autodesk has decided to discontinue support and development of the Stingray game engine. The company explained this decision by unwillingness to compete with Unity and Unreal Engine.

Kirill Petrov, co-founder of i-Free and Managing Director of Zillion Whales, said App2Top.ru , how the year has passed for his gaming business and named the most important trends of recent months.

The announcement of a new role-playing game from Obsidian is coming soon. On the eve of it, the Pillars of Eternity developers hastened to declare that there would be no micropayments or anything similar in their new project.

Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the Interactive Cartoon VGTRK gaming direction, told App2Top that his company had managed over the past year and which mobile games he remembered the most.

PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS is pulling away again. According to Microsoft, gamers bought more than 1 million copies of PUBG for Xbox One within two days after the release of the console port of the game.

Report by Ivan Pomytkin from HeroCraft. The speaker spoke about PR, social media, community work, pricing policy and much more in the field of PC game marketing.

The free-play mode of the “royal battle” pulls the Fortnite online shooter to the top of the rating of the most played titles. In November of this year, Fortnite rose to the 10th place in the list of the most popular games on the PC platform.

Rocket Jump Studio Director Konstantin Mitrofanov shared with App2Top.ru the way this year has passed for him and his company.

The volume of the online gaming market in China for the 3rd quarter of 2017 amounted to $9.6 billion. 51.6% ($4.9 billion) of this amount was earned by Tencent Corporation, the research company iResearch China reported.