More than 1 million users from the USA and Europe have pre-registered in the mobile role-playing MMO Lineage 2: Revolution. The release of the game in the West will take place on November 11.

47.2% of owners of Apple mobile devices switched to the latest version of iOS 11 3 weeks after its release. Nevertheless, iOS 10 is still slightly ahead of the novelty — 48% of Apple users remain on it.

The creative director of the Dragon Age role-playing series Mike Laidlaw has announced his retirement from the BioWare studio, where he worked for 14 years.

Epic Games announced that more than 10 million people became participants in the free “battle royale” mode for the Fortnite cooperative shooter two weeks after the launch.

Mobile publisher Zynga announced its intention to close the office of the NaturalMotion subsidiary in the English city of Oxford.

The British studio Supersolid has received $4 million in investments to develop new features for the social mobile game Home Street and promote the project.

Bandai America company will release a series of electronic toys “Tamagotchi” in the USA for the 20th anniversary of the cult virtual pet simulator.

Oculus has presented a new virtual reality headset Oculus Go. The device works without connecting to a smartphone or computer. The novelty was estimated at $ 199.

The implementation of game content has tripled the value of the gaming industry, according to a study by Digital River.

Big Huge Games Studio has hired former Epic Games creative Director Steve Superville and ex-Zynga COO Judith Hoffman.

Bandai Namco’s Tekken 7 fighting game has sold over 2 million copies on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One since its launch in June this year.

Sales of Nintendo’s retro SNES Mini console in Japan in the first four days after the release reached 368.9 thousand copies, the Famitsu edition reports.

Nintendo has announced an increase in the monthly production of Nintendo Switch consoles to 2 million copies.

Microsoft has officially confirmed the “death” of the Windows Phone mobile platform and announced the termination of the development of new features for Windows 10 Mobile.

The number of people simultaneously playing the free “battle royale” mode of the Fortnite shooter from Epic Games has reached 525 thousand people.

The rating company Newzoo together with the gaming service Overwolf presented a rating of the 20 most popular games on the PC platform in September of this year.

One of the speakers of the Moscow White Nights will be the Pixonic studio. She will make a report on the mistakes made in the development of the mobile PvP action War Robots. We suggest that the company come up with questions in advance. We will award you a premium ticket for the two best questions.

Lifetime is the metric that clearly shows the interest of users in the product. How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Blockchain technology has excellent prospects in the gaming industry. Alexey Meleshkevich, the founder of Total Games and Melesta Games, thinks so in his column.