The MMO action game World of Tanks Blitz has turned four years old, during which time the game has reached 100 million downloads on all platforms.

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.

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.

The Royal Battle of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds uses assets purchased in online stores on its maps, said the creator of the game Brendan Green. According to him, this is done so that the art department of the development team can concentrate on more important aspects of the maps.

In the five years since the release of The Last of Us, 17 million copies of the game have been sold, making it the best-selling game released by Sony.

Fortnite became available for Switch shortly after Nintendo’s presentation at E3 and gained two million downloads in a day.

Ubisoft has decided to switch its main franchise to a service support model — the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will receive updates every week.

On May 18, Taptap Heroes was released worldwide on Google Play. Formally, this is a clicker with a collectible card meta, which is distinguished by a high product value and a number of interesting developments. Since its release, its daily revenue on the Android platform has grown from $ 5 to $ 10 thousand.

The sprite platformer Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon by the Japanese studio Inti Games scored more than 100 thousand downloads in the first 2 weeks. More than half (56%) of the title downloads were made by Nintendo Switch users.

Apple has updated the rules for publishing applications in the App Store. According to the updated policy, in order to be placed in the official Apple store, programs should not allow users to buy content outside the App Store. Failure to comply with this condition did not allow Valve to release the Steam Link game streaming application in the App Store.

Independent developer David Murray funded the creation of a retro strategy Planet X3 using the Kickstater platform, collecting the required $ 30 thousand in a few hours. Two days later, the campaign budget doubled the original goal and reached $70 thousand.

Translation of an article by game designer Philipp Zupke, in which he analyzes in detail the game cycle and original solutions in the design of the June’s Journey casual game session.

During the first week of sales, the Detroit: Become Human adventure game, developed exclusively for PS4, surpassed any previous releases of the Quantic Dream studio in all respects.

Apple has named the finalists of the annual Apple Design Award, which is awarded to the best games and applications from the App Store. This year’s award winners include Florence, INSIDE, Alto’s Odyssey, Frost and Oddmar games.

The free-to-play online role-playing thriller Path of Exile from the New Zealand studio Grinding Gear Games has collected the second largest online gaming in almost 5 years of existence. On the first weekend of June, there were more than 96 thousand people on the title’s servers at the same time.

Rating service GitHyp drew attention to the attendance of the heroic shooter Quake Champions, which appeared in early access Steam in August 2017. The multiplayer action movie from the legendary id Software company started very modestly, gathering a maximum online of 2.4 thousand players.

The British company Outfit7 reported that its mobile games have been downloaded 8 billion times. Outfit7 is known as the author of the Talking Tom and Friends gaming media franchise.

The popular Subway Surfers mobile runner by Kiloo and SYBO Games has marked a new download record — the game has been downloaded more than 2 billion times.

The titles of the Troll Face Quest franchise on mobile have gained more than 100 million downloads. This was announced by the publishing company Spil Games, noting that 90% of the installations of their games are organic.