Last week, Battlefield 2042 climbed to the top of the Steam bestseller chart, beating Forza Horizon 5. Thanks to various publications, the multiplayer shooter from DICE took three lines at once, including the first. But New World for the first time in eight weeks failed to get into the top ten best-selling games.

Today, a full-fledged release of PUBG: New State took place on mobile platforms. It turned out to be problematic. Many players were unable to log into the game as a result of a server malfunction. There were also a lot of bugs in the project, some of which have already been recognized by the developers themselves.

On the occasion of the release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition producer Rockstar spoke about the creation of remasters and the difficulties encountered in the process. The team wanted to preserve the spirit of classic titles. However, it lost part of the source code, as a result of which the developers had to make a number of compromises and tricks.

Genshin Impact fans make a huge amount of content on the game. Now, miHoYo has released official guidelines for the creation and sale of fan products, including merchandise and other paraphernalia. At the same time, producers of small batches do not even need to notify the studio about their work.miHoYo told more about the rules on Tuesday at the Genshin Impact community forum.

Today, the launch date of Lineage2M in Russia and the world has become known. The MMO blockbuster, which earned more than $800 million in Asia, will be available to a Western audience on December 2. In connection with the upcoming release, we took a short interview with Seoul-based NCSOFT.

Free Fire continues to set records. The analytical company App Annie estimated that in January-June, the total mobile downloads of Free Fire amounted to 104.5 million. This is the best result among mobile battle royales.

Age of Empires IV has lost its lead in the Steam bestseller chart — last week the game dropped to the second line of the rating. Instead, the best-selling title was Forza Horizon 5, which is scheduled for release on November 9.

Niantic has decided to no longer support the augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The project will be removed from mobile stores on December 6, and the servers will be turned off on January 31, 2022.

Imangi employs only 40 people, but this relatively small team has big ambitions in the market. In a new interview, the studio talked about plans to develop the Temple Run brand and explained why it never spent money on paid user engagement.Imangi CEO Walter Devins shared details about the studio’s new global development strategy in a conversation with GamesIndustry.biz .

Riot Games projects are becoming more and more popular. The developer reported that in October, the total MAU of games in the League of Legends universe grew to 180 million people.

By the end of October App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Tencent and TiMi Studios have announced a game based on the popular mobile MOBA Honor of Kings. It’s called Honor of Kings: World. It will be an open-world RPG that will be released “on multiple platforms.”

Fortnite is leaving China. The servers of the regional version of the battle royale will stop working in two weeks. Perhaps the closure is due to the lack of popularity of the game and changes in Chinese legislation.

Back 4 Blood has been leading the Steam bestseller chart for the past two weeks. However, now the first line (and with it the second and seventh) was taken by Age of Empires IV. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was also among the top ten best-selling games last week.

Golf Club: Wasteland is a post-apocalyptic puzzle game developed by Serbian Demagog Studio. The project, in which, while playing golf, you need to solve the mystery of the fall of humanity, was originally released on mobile platforms. In September, the authors ported the title to other platforms. In an interview App2Top.ru The CEO of Demagog Studio spoke about the development of the game, its concept, mechanics, visual style and the difficulties encountered.

On October 26, Darkest Dungeon II was released in the Epic Games Store in early access. In just one day, the game sold over 100 thousand copies.

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was released today. Despite the initial skepticism, the game exceeded the expectations of many critics. Some even call it “the new standard for comic book video games.” However, there were some negative aspects. Most of all complain about the abundance of bugs and too simple fighting.

Zombie shooter Back 4 Blood continues to dominate the Steam bestseller chart. Last week, the game was the best-selling in the store for the second time in a row. New World has also been in the top three for the past five weeks — now it is in second place.

In February, the Belarusian studio Flime together with Gismart released a hyper-casual arcade Pencil Rush 3D. In the seven months since its release, the game has been downloaded 40 million times. The developers have prepared for App2Top.ru a column in which they told about the progress of the creation of the game.