In the first week after the release of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action, 1.2 million physical copies of the game were bought in Japan. This is 92% of the initial batch of discs sent by the publisher Capcom to stores.

Electronic Arts re-activates microtransactions in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. This was confirmed by the company’s management.

Ubisoft has canceled a planned increase in the price tag for the online shooter Rainbow Six: Siege due to user dissatisfaction.

Deliveries of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action have become the best in the history of the franchise. In the first three days, Capcom sent over 5 million copies to stores and sold them in numbers.

Blizzard will search for “toxic” gamers in Overwatch by videos on YouTube and other social media. Having identified a rude and aggressive player, the developer can restrict the operation of his account without waiting for a complaint from other players.

Tomorrow Corporation has announced a new puzzle game 7 Billion Humans. The indie studio is known for such games as World of Goo, Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine.

Atari intends to release the RollerCoaster Tycoon economic strategy on the Nintendo Switch. To do this, the company launched a crowdfunding company. Atari expects to raise from $10 thousand to $1 million on it.

Switch — the new indie patrimony? The role-playing simulator of the Stardew Valley farm last year overtook all other titles that came out in numbers on the Nintendo Switch in terms of downloads. It didn’t hurt that the game was released three months before the end of the year.

The broadcast of the opening games of the debut season of the Overwatch League on January 10 on Twitch simultaneously gathered 425 thousand viewers.

The “battle royale” mode remains a reliable locomotive for the Fortnite MMO shooter. Thanks to him, the number of users of the game has grown by 10 million over the past month and reached 40 million players, and the peak of online gaming exceeded 2 million gamers, Eurogamer reported with reference to Epic Games.

The success of GTA V lasts almost 5 years in a row. The Rockstar Games hit took third place in sales of physical copies in 15 European countries in 2017, second only to FIFA 18 and Call of Duty: WWII.

PUBG Corp. And Xbox reported selling 3 million copies of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLE Royale for Xbox One in the first month after release, with 1 million copies sold out in the first 48 hours.

Sega has introduced its own social casino — Sega Slots. It contains 8 virtual machines in the theme of the company’s popular gaming franchises: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sinobi, Golden Axe and others.

Gamers have once again proved that they do not regret money for nostalgia. The British indie studio Bitmap Bureau has raised more than $95 thousand on Kickstarter to develop a retro Xeno Crisis shooter for the 16-bit Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console.

In 2017, the rating of games with the most massive online on Steam was replenished with only one new title — the “royal battle” of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS from Bluehole Studios.

The rating service GitHyp has brought disappointing statistics: VR versions of popular titles on Steam are hardly collected online by several hundred gamers.

The fever of “royal battles” has spread to mobile. The Knives Out mobile PVP action game from the Chinese company NetEase scored over 100 million downloads during the open beta test, which began on November 3 and ended with the global release of the game on December 14.

The free-play mode of the “royal battle” pulls the Fortnite online shooter to the top of the rating of the most played titles. In November of this year, Fortnite rose to the 10th place in the list of the most popular games on the PC platform.

More than 100 thousand gamers gathered simultaneously for the first time in the tactical shooter Rainbow Six: Siege on the Steam platform. Players set an attendance record after the release of the Operation White Noise add-on with a new map and characters.