The analytical service DeltaDNA reported that the number of monthly audience coverage exceeded 100 million users. This indicator corresponds to the traffic of game publishers and developers receiving statistics from DeltaDNA.

Finnish studio Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that they have reached the milestone of 3.5 million copies of Cities: Skylines sold since the game was released in March 2015.

Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told about what the correct navigation in level design looks like as part of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.

The creator of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, Tim Schafer, shared his experience working on the reissue of gaming classics.

The analytical company App Annie presented the annual chart of the highest-grossing companies publishing mobile apps on Google Play and the App Store. For the first time since 2014, a Russian publisher, Playrix, appeared in it.

Report by Irina Tripapina from myTarget at White Nights Prague 2017. In her speech, she spoke about the peculiarities of the Russian mobile games market.

Ilya Salamatov’s report from 101XP at White Nights Prague 2017. As part of his speech, he talked about what mistakes should not be made when making deals.

Valve has introduced several changes to the game rating system on Steam. Now it does not take into account the ratings of gamers who have access to the game for free.

European scientists have presented research results proving the absence of a relationship between violent video games and a person’s propensity for violence.

YoYo Games has published the second version of the GameMaker Studio 2D game development toolkit.

Short videos about how content is created for these games appear on the official YouTube channels Hay Day and Boom Beach.

Hello Games announced the launch of the Hello Labs program to help developers of experimental game projects.

Louis Castle, a former co—founder of Westwood Studios, has been appointed head of the gaming division of the American corporation Amazon in Seattle.

The online project Ghost Recon: Wildlands on Steam on the day of release overtook the peak values of the game at the open beta stage.

The research company Newzoo has published an infographic with 10 key facts about the Zelda series of games.

Finnish developer Small Giant Games has closed an investment round of €5.4 ($5.7) million to promote its new Empires & Puzzles game.

App2Top.ru He continues to post videos of reports from the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. Next up is a report by Michael Schade, founder of Fishlabs and ROCKFISH Games. In his speech, he told about the history of both studios and the difficult path from mobile to PC.

The co-president of the developer of the Uncharted series, Christophe Balestra, will leave Naughty Dog next month.

App2Top.ru He continues to post videos of reports from the White Nights Prague 2017 conference. Next up is a public interview with Nikola Cavic, Director of Business Development at Nordeus. The central topic of the conversation with Nikola was working on projects under license.