Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 10.

The number of mobile gamers in China is comparable to the combined population of the United States and Japan. 459 million people play on smartphones and tablets in China, and the total population of the USA and Japan is 455 million citizens.

On September 8, 2017, the royal battle of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) broke the mark of 1 million users who are in the game at the same time. Since that day, her online has never dropped below.

The Epic Games experiment went well. The company has proven that many downloads on Android can be typed without Google Play. Only within the beta for a limited number of Android devices, its blockbuster Fortnite generated 15 million installations in three weeks.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 7.

The former marketing manager of Motion Twin, Steve Filby, told in detail how one of the main indie releases of this summer, metroidvania Dead Cells, was progressing.

The Vivox in-game communication service, which is used by the developers of League of Legends, Fortnite, Paladins and Rainbow Six Siege, has become free for small projects.

VKontakte has introduced an important update for its Direct Games mobile gaming platform. From September 5, the games of the platform can send alerts to their users through the functionality of the mobile application of the social network.

Nintendo Switch has once again demonstrated that it is an excellent platform for indie. Motion Twin said that for one sold copy of Dead Sells on PlayStation 4, there are four sold versions on the Nintendo console.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 6.

The Celestial Empire is restless again. Chinese gaming colossus Tencent has announced a new registration and identification system in Honor of Kings (aka Arena of War), the highest-grossing mobile game in the world. The company will register players by their real name, and then check their age and identity against the police database.

The CEO of Unity believes that the company’s engine is popular today not only among mobile developers. He stated that half of the game projects for all platforms are developed on Unity.

South Korean Pearl Abyss acquires a European asset. The developer of one of the brightest MMORPGs of recent times buys the Icelandic CCP Games. The latter is famous for the space MMO blockbuster Eve Online.

Global market analytics company Nielsen has acquired SuperData Research. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 5.

On October 16-17, the White Nights gaming conference will be held in Moscow. It will host an exhibition of developers. The organizers are waiting for applications for participation from teams whose projects are in beta and above.

Ex-employees of BioWare Austin Dallas Dickinson (Dallas Dickinson) and Gabe Amantangelo (Game Amantangelo) told how Electronic Arts forced them to leave the famous studio and open their own company for the sake of reviving their own project.

One of the most popular search queries in August in the USA on iOS is Tomb of the Mask from Playgendary.

The revenue of Nintendo’s highest-grossing mobile game continues to grow. This summer, the role-playing tactics of Fire Emblem Heroes earned $63 million. Compared to the same period last year, revenue increased by 34%, according to Sensor Tower.