Premium mobile games rarely achieve the same success as free—to-play titles, but the Monument Valley franchise of Ustwo studio is an exception to the rule. The revenues of the second part of the mobile puzzle in the first year after the release exceeded $10.4 million — twice as much as the first Monument Valley generated in the same period.

What should a good bug report that occurs in the game necessarily include? An article for developers and testers.

Atari has quarreled with the technology publication The Register after the material about its future product — the Atari VCS console. According to Atari, The Register journalist distorted the words of the company’s representatives and outlined personal speculation instead of objective first-hand data. In response, The Register published an audio recording of the conversation confirming the initial allegations.

The European top 10 sales of games from June 11 to 17 have been published. FIFA 18 remains in the first place for the third week.

Microsoft Corporation now calculates royalties for game publishers using blockchain technology based on its own Azure cloud service. According to the company, the transition to blockchain will significantly accelerate payments to publishers who release their titles on the Xbox platform.

The Russian publisher and localizer of MMO games Innova has launched a mobile direction. The company is going to cooperate with independent developers of games for smartphones and tablets.

How to enter the gaming market of China? What kind of games are popular on it? Is it worth entering the Chinese market on your own? These and many other issues will be discussed at White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 as part of a separate round table. We suggest coming up with questions for him. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket.

The World Health Organization has recognized gaming addiction as a mental disorder; Valve has started an open beta test of publishers’ pages on Steam; the development of a 16-year-old designer has become the game of the day in the App Store; — this and not only in the digest of the main events of the gaming industry from App2Top.ru .

The introduction of celebrities and popular movie and television characters into the game is a common practice in the mobile sphere. Now Lithuanian Game Insight has started to practice it actively. The other day she launched a large-scale event in her 60 million blockbuster “Natives”. The face of the new event was Garfield the cat, a popular hero of comics and animated series. We tell you exactly how the company implemented the brand in its…

Bethesda Softworks has filed a lawsuit against the Canadian studio Behavior Interactive. The reason was the Westworld mobile game based on the TV series of the same name, developed by Behavior. Bethesda claims that Westworld is an explicit clone of the Fallout Shelter mobile simulator, created based on the source code of the game without the permission of the copyright holder.

Games in the App Store earn more money compared to Google Play, but Apple’s mobile platform does not guarantee high and stable incomes for most iOS title developers. According to the analytical company Apptopia, the revenue of games in the App Store quickly peaks and falls, and three-quarters of all revenue comes from the top 50 box office titles of the store.

The most popular iOS game search queries in the USA are Love Balls and Word Puzzle Game. In Russia, the horror horror films Granny and Grandpa, as well as Helix Jump, are in the top.

Bluehole has acquired Korean developer Delusion Studio. What attracted the authors of the hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to a small studio without an impressive portfolio is still unclear.

A week ago, Valve updated the social functionality of the Steam platform, making it somewhat similar to the online gaming messenger Discord. On June 21, Discord also released an update that allows you to launch games through clients, as well as follow the news and events of friends, which, in turn, brought its capabilities closer to the Valve service.

Nintendo and Microsoft have launched a joint advertising campaign in honor of the release of the Minecraft multiplatform update. “It’s better together,” the competitors assure, while Sony continues to resist and does not allow playing under the same account on different platforms.

According to the analytical company NPD Group, cards with digital codes and gaming accessories became the main engines of growth in the US gaming market in May.

According to eMarketer, the average adult US citizen spends 3 hours and 50 minutes in front of the TV, and uses smartphones for 3 hours and 35 minutes. Analysts are confident that smartphones will bypass TV in 2019.

How does the purchase of traffic using the CPS model work? What are the pitfalls when working with such traffic? Nikolay Marchenko, a media buyer at Mobio, told about this as part of a series of articles “School of Promotion”.

In the monthly top sales of games in the United States, which is compiled by the analytical company NPD Group, the first place was taken by the horror State of Decay 2 from Undead Labs and Microsoft Studios.