Apparently, Valve is working on a new title — an unannounced cooperative action game for 4 players in a fantasy setting.

Charles Randall, an ex-employee of Capybara Games studio, believes that game developers have stopped openly talking about their work because of the “toxicity” of the gaming community, which endlessly attacks them.

Purchases of video ads for mobile platforms for the 2nd quarter of 2017 increased by 142% compared to the previous quarter. This has made mobile video advertising the fastest growing format among other types of ads.

Ubisoft shareholders approved by a majority vote the decision of CEO Yves Guillemot to appoint two independent directors to the company’s management board.

The Japanese company Square Enix has announced plans to gain about ¥100 billion ($900 million) from sales of games for mobile platforms.

The combined sales of digital and physical copies of the action with role-playing elements of Nier: Automata exceeded 2 million copies in six months since the release.

The turn-based tactics of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle has become the sales leader on the Nintendo Switch console among titles not owned by Nintendo.

A tool such as a conversion funnel helps to find weaknesses in games. How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Crytek has released the final version of the CRYENGINE 5.4 game engine.

In early September, Moscow indie studio Groovy Milk has started beta testing of its first project – Creepy Road. In an interview with App2Top.ru She shared her experience of creating levels for shoot ’em up, launching a Kickstarter campaign and getting development permission for Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Apple has added two separate categories for augmented reality games and applications to the App Store.

Alessandro Canossa, Ubisoft’s leading user research analyst, will speak at White Nights in Moscow. We offer to come up with a question for him. The author of the best will receive a premium ticket to the conference and a book about game analytics.

On September 19, the world release of the new three-in-a-row from Playrix – Homescapes took place. We talked with the creative director of the company Igor Elovikov about the development and differences of the novelty from the previous blockbuster of the studio – Gardenscapes.

The multiplayer online fighting game with role-playing elements Absolver sold more than 250 thousand copies in 3 weeks and became one of the fastest selling games of the indie publisher Devolver Digital.

The game “My Country” has appeared in the App Store. One of the first builders and, in general, projects focused on the game exclusively within the framework of augmented reality.

Shares of Nintendo have reached the highest price in 9 years, the Wall Street Journal business publication reports.

The release of the free web course “Game analytics: from basics to advanced methods” took place. The author was the analytical platform devtodev.

A study by the Bazaarvoice advertising network and the Advertising Age marketing publication showed that out of 95% of advertisers using marketing information, 64% do not know from which sources this data is taken.

In November 2003, the Russian company Nikita released the first Russian MMORPG. The game was called “Sphere”. After 15 years, this title already has three projects. We talked to Olesya Koroleva, Marketing Director of Nikita Online, about how the series developed.