Sony has announced the release of Playstation 4 games in the Playstation Now cloud gaming service. Gamers will be able to pay for a subscription and play on their console or PC.

Moscow-based Cats Who Play developers have reported that their “Syrian Warfare” strategy (Syria: Russian Storm) was removed from the Steam store without warning.

Nintendo has announced the release of over 60 games from independent developers on the new Switch platform.

In 2016, Unity games were installed 16 billion times on mobile devices. In comparison with 2015, the indicator increased by 31%.

The record performance of the gaming division and the success of The Angry Birds Movie increased the company’s profit by a third compared to 2015.

The Icelandic company CCP reported a 30% increase in revenue in 2016 — from $65.7 million to $86.1 million.

Finnish mobile game developer Next Games has announced plans to place $30 million worth of shares on the market.

Video streaming service Twitch will start selling games and game content this spring. Viewers will be able to buy games directly during the broadcasts of their gameplay.

Irrational Games studio changed its name to Ghost Story Games. After the rebranding, the developers promise to work on “exciting stories with a deep plot.”

Analysts predict explosive revenue growth of virtual reality projects in the near future.

Sony has sold 915 thousand Playstation VR kits since the start of sales in October last year and has come close to fulfilling its own plan of 1 million devices sold within six months.

The German publisher of mobile games Flaregames announced the creation of a new incubator program Flare Accelerator.

Swedish indie developer Coffee Stain Studio has launched its own publishing house.

The Swedish company King has stopped operating its South Korean branch.

In 2016, the average check of Apple smartphone users in the United States increased by $5 and amounted to about $40.

On February 16, the results of the first European Google Play Indie Games Contest were summed up in London. A jury of experts from the mobile games industry awarded the victory to the Reigns project of the British studio Nerial.

The number of copies sold of the popular two-dimensional 3d game Terraria has crossed the twenty-millionth milestone. Representatives of the developer company Re-Logic told about this on the official forum of their project.

Today is a day of sad news. Marmalad will no longer develop its engine, Blizzard’s senior vice president of creative development is retiring, Pokemon GO has lost 79% of paying players in a month.

All the main business news and development of the gaming industry for the day in one publication.