Microsoft has announced the start date of sales of mixed reality helmets — October 17. The cost of a set of headsets and controllers starts from $299.

The share of owners of the Oculus Rift VR headset in August increased by 8.1% compared to the previous month and reached 43.8% of the total number of owners of virtual reality helmets among Steam users.

In the summer of 2017, the Kaliningrad Tortuga Team released the fourth part of the turn-based strategy Braveland with the subtitle Heroes. We talked with the creative director of the studio Anton Mikhailov about how the work on the project was going.

Game designer John Romero has entered into an Internet controversy with id Software creative director Tim Willits. The day before, Willits said in an interview that it was he who came up with the idea of making separate maps for multiplayer shooters.

A version of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine for Apple devices has been released.

Is it necessary to monitor the average duration of the session and what it gives, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Indian mobile developer Nukebox Studios earned $500 thousand in 45 days thanks to Food Truck Chef, a time manager inspired by the hit Cooking Fever of the Lithuanian studio Nordcurrent.

The program White Nights Moscow 2017 appeared on the network. Among the speakers of the conference for game developers are representatives of Obsidian, Playtika, Epic Games and King.

Sales of the VR puzzle I Expect You to Die from Schell Games studio have exceeded $1 million since its release in December 2016.

Preliminary applications for The GameDev Buisness Hanbook — a tutorial on the development and promotion of video games with the advice of game designers from Paradox Entertainment, Ninja Theory, Devolver Digital, John Romero’s wife – Brenda Romero, and others are open.

The Finnish company Rovio has published a three-in-a-row Angry Birds Match puzzle for its flagship franchise. The shareware game is available on iOS and Android from August 30.

For 4 months of downloading the game, C.A.T.S. amounted to 60 million. The game was released on the App Store and Google Play at the end of April 2017.

The daily audience of the Design Home Design application of the mobile developer Glu Mobile has reached one million users.

Laws against gambling activities of Japanese organized crime hinder the development of the esports competition industry in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The multiplayer shooter LawBreakers by Gears of War creator Cliff Blesinski is losing its audience — three weeks after the launch, the number of online players on Steam decreased from 3.5 thousand to 500 people.

The analytical company Quantic Foundry has found out the gender preferences of video game fans when choosing a game character. It turned out that 75% of the women surveyed, if possible, will play the protagonist of their gender.

As part of an interview with App2Top.ru William Taht, Executive vice president for Games at Rovio, spoke about how much, on average, each individual division of the company earns from IAP, and how much from advertising.

Google has shown ARCore, a devkit designed to create augmented reality applications for Android.

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