On August 27, the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battleground was able to overtake MOBA Dota 2 in terms of the number of gamers in the game at the same time, temporarily becoming the most popular game on Steam.

Sales of the MMO shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) on Steam exceeded 8 million copies in less than six months since the release of the game in early access.

Korean studio Pearl Abyss for the first time showed a gameplay teaser of the mobile role-playing MMO Black Desert Mobile, which can become a competitor to Lineage M from NCsoft.

Indie studio Butterscotch Shenanigans has announced 500 thousand copies of the Crashlands survival simulator sold.

The role-playing action Path of Exile has updated the attendance record, simultaneously gathering more than 98 thousand gamers on Steam after the release of The Fall of Oriath supplement on August 4.

The passion for shooters can lead to a decrease in the volume of gray matter in the brain, which makes a person vulnerable to depression and contributes to the development of Alzheimer’s disease in old age.

The mobile PvP shooter Critical Ops by the Finnish developer Critical Ops has been downloaded more than 25 million times, with the game gaining the last 10 million downloads in less than six months.

The creators of League of Legends lost the court to ex-footballer Edgar Davids (Edgar Davids) and now have to pay him compensation for using the image of an athlete without permission.

The casual runner Rodeo Stampede by Featherweight Games studio has gained more than 80 million downloads in 13 months since its release.

Mobile publisher Zynga has conducted a three-in-a-row Rangoli Rekha: Color Match mobile puzzle softlonch in India, developed by a local studio from Bangalore. The visual range of the games contains references to Indian folk culture.

The analytical company Newzoo has prepared a monthly rating of the 20 most popular PC games. It is compiled based on the number of unique gaming sessions of each title.

One of the most anticipated games of 2016, No Man’s Sky, a year after its release, justified its name — the title was literally depopulated, having lost 99% of the audience.

Valve has announced the development of a new title based on MOBA Dota — a collectible card game Artifact.

More than 20 million people have registered in the Rainbow Six Siege tactical shooter for a year and a half of its existence, and the daily audience has grown to 2.3 million thanks to Ubisoft’s strategy for stable support of the project after release.

More than 5 million unique users have played in the HITMAN stealth action of the Danish studio Io-Interactive since its release in 2016, the developer company said on Twitter.

According to Time Warner Media Corporation, the superhero fighting game Injustice 2 by NetherRealm studio became the highest-grossing console game in the second quarter of this year.

GTA V online action mode remains the main source of revenue for Take-Two publishing. The head of the company Strauss Zelnick admitted that Take-Two did not count on such a long-term popularity of this title.

The Long Dark survival simulator from the Canadian indie studio Hinterland reached 1.3 million copies sold by the official release, and the producer of the Resident Evil film franchise, Jeremy Bolt, took over its adaptation.

The survival simulator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has risen to third place in the Steam service rating in terms of the number of online players for all time, 10 thousand ahead of the result of Fallout 4.