App Annie has published lists of the most popular and profitable mobile games in February 2017. The most successful projects of the month included Honor of Kings, Real Piano and Fire Emblem Heroes.

Japanese developer and publisher GungHo Online Entertainment (GOE) has become one of the global sponsors of the World Baseball Classic 2017.

The Kidoz children’s operating system of the Israeli company Netanya last year increased the monthly audience of active users by 50 times — from 1 to 50 million people.

The new Bioware project, the role—playing game Mass Effect: Andromeda, was criticized immediately after its release for poor animation and other errors. As it turned out, the development of the blockbuster was accompanied by problems in the Bioware Montreal team.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is preparing to introduce augmented reality (AR) into its ecosystem and plans to produce consumer-grade gadgets.

The French developer and publisher DotEmu announced the imminent closure of its digital store selling retro games.

Report by Matthew Steinke, Lead Technical Designer at CD Projekt RED. He talks about how the economy was created and how it works in Witcher 3.

Report by Itai Edry, producer of TabTale. He talks about what super casual games are, what they should be and where to look for inspiration for their development.

In February, players in Russia paid less for online entertainment than in January. The turnover of the domestic MMO market fell by 5%, the average check – by 13 rubles.

Scopley Studio has signed an agreement with the developers of Temple Run to create a three-in-a-row puzzle based on the mobile hit Imangi.

The mobile traffic monetization network MobioNetwork has presented a video course on mobile traffic arbitration.

The Danish studio IO Interactive summed up the results of the year since the launch of the last part of the Hitman game franchise.

The largest South Korean mobile gaming company will enter the stock market. Netmarble expects to get up to 2.7 trillion won ($2.4 billion) as part of the initial public offering.

Video with a report by Guy Ulmer from Plarium. He talks about his own vision of the design of strategic games.

Video with a report by Ilya Eremeev, producer of Game Insight. He talks about why it is worth conducting market research before the start of creating a game and how to do it.

Consoles, games and services of the Japanese corporation Sony occupied 57% of the console segment of the world market. Gamers spent $19.7 billion on them.

Online samurai battles with Vikings and knights in the action For Honor from Ubisoft were in the greatest demand among American gamers in February.

Since March 17, a permanent and possibly updated section dedicated exclusively to indie projects has appeared in the App Store.

Ino-Co Plus studio announced that its new project “The Code of Victory” (Codex of Victory) is published by 1C. The release took place on March 16.