China’s Baidu Corporation has confirmed the sale of its mobile game publisher Baidu Mobile Game (BMG) to two unnamed companies for $173 million.

Streaming platform Live.me announced the ability to stream games and videos from smartphones and tablets.

Google Play Games Service (GPGS) plans to abandon Gifts, Requests and Quests in Google Play games by March 31, 2018.

Today, April 4, the official release of the Japanese role-playing game Persona 5 from Atlus took place. We are looking closely at the project.

We continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert.

Report by Jakub Dočkal from Alda Games. Using the example of the game “Killing Room”, the speaker talks about how to attract the attention of YouTubers and influencers to the game.

Square Enix reported about a million copies of the action game with role-playing elements NieR: Automata sold in the world. The company took into account both digital purchases and versions on physical media.

The survival simulator PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds took third place in the Steam popularity rating and broke out into the leaders in views on Twitch for the first week of early access.

On April 3, the racing mobile game Nitro Nation, developed by Tallinn Creative Mobile, turned 3 years old. During this time, the game was downloaded by 30 million users.

Almost 90% of game developers constantly or periodically work beyond the time stipulated in the contract.

Valve met with the leading popular YouTube channels and discussed with them the prospects for the development of Steam.

In 2017, the Yekaterinburg studio Targem Games, the author of such games as Ex Machina and Star Conflict, turned 15 years old. App2Top.ru I talked about the history of the studio with its founder Stanislav Skorb.

The total revenue of developers from leading mobile stores in 2016 in Russia amounted to $ 300 million. It is expected to exceed $400 million by 2021.

A report by Jaroslav Stehlik from dream.digital. The speaker talks about how to create real locations in virtual reality using photogrammerty technology.

Japanese developer Rakuten Games has launched the social gaming platform R Games, using HTML5 features.

The Japanese mobile publisher gumi inc, in partnership with the Norwegian film studio Nordisk Film, has created a business incubator with a budget of € 100 thousand to support novice VR developers.

The Android operating system has outpaced Windows in terms of Internet usage, becoming the market leader.

At the end of last week, a free quest One Eyed Kutkh from the Russian indie studio Baba Yaga Games was released on Steam. We are looking closely at the project.

In March 2017, Epic Games announced a new mobile project – Battle Breakers. Editorial Office App2Top.ru I asked the game team about working on it.