The ways to top up your Steam wallet have expanded. The gaming platform VK Play announced the launch of this service.

Last week, the marketing company AppsFlyer released a report on the state of mobile game advertising for the year 2023. Here are some facts from the report.

The creators of the open-source engine Godot have released version 4.3. It contains more than 3,500 changes made by 521 developers.

The creators of the free multiplayer survival game Once Human announced that their game has been downloaded 10 million times worldwide.

On August 16, 2024, Valve began charging Russian tax residents an additional 30% on sales in Steam within the United States. This is in addition to the standard store commission of the same 30%.

Tim Sweeney announced that many exclusive deals made by the Epic Games Store turned out to be poor investments. Ubisoft conducted new layoffs, and the founders of Playrix topped the list of the wealthiest individuals in the UK gaming industry. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

In August 2020, Apple and Google removed Fortnite from their mobile app stores. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told Game File journalist Stephen Totilo in an interview that over the years of the game’s absence from the stores, his company lost about $1 billion in potential revenue from Fortnite.

We are starting to publish video presentations (along with transcripts) from the “Game Industry” conference that took place in July. The first presentation is by Alexander Vasiliev, a partner manager at Yandex Advertising. His talk is dedicated to the main mistakes that mobile game developers make when integrating ad monetization.

Last week, it was noted that Valve is working on a new filter for user reviews on Steam that hides reviews lacking meaningful content, such as jokes and ASCII art. Now, the company has confirmed the rumors.

Valve announced changes to the rules regarding game descriptions on Steam. It plans to introduce three new prohibitions.

The revenue of the German gaming market fell by 6% in the first six months of 2024, as reported by the German association GAME. Experts note that this is the first decline in many years, attributed to the lack of major releases.

The developer of the Pathfinder RPG series and the tactical game Rogue Trader has announced that it is becoming a publisher.

The list of indie hits has been updated. The shooter VLADiK Brutal from the solo Russian developer Narko Games is showing great sales. It debuted at number four on the list of the top-grossing games on Steam in Russia for the week of August 6 to August 13.

The analytics company Newzoo has published a forecast for the global video game market for 2024. Below are the key figures.

We continue our series of publications about games seeking investments or a publisher. Next up is an article about the Ambiencive Games team, currently working on a shooter set in the “TechDarkness” universe.

The St. Petersburg Prosecutor’s Office has filed an administrative lawsuit seeking to ban the distribution of the strategy game Last Train Home in Russia.

The list of the top-grossing products on Steam for the week from August 6 to August 13 has been published. Three spots in the top ten have been taken by games that have not yet been released.

It has been announced that another studio is closing down. After 11 years of operation, Canada’s Archiact Interactive, the developer behind VR games Journey to Foundation and FREEDIVER: Triton Down, is set to close its doors.

What should be in a pitch to make it intriguing to a potential partner? Andrey Rybin, the Head of Operations at Astrum Entertainment, shared insights on this topic in his column for App2Top.