Nintendo’s Japanese colossus can open champagne. The company is doing great not only in the main console market. Nintendo’s fourth mobile game is the company’s second most successful smartphone release.

The cowboy action movie Red Dead Redemption 2 hit the jackpot. The game earned $725 million. This is the second most successful launch in the history of the entertainment industry.

Investments in AR/VR games have come to naught. The sad situation of virtual and augmented reality games by the 4th quarter of the year is demonstrated by the report of Digi-Capital.

We note the mobile games that showed the fastest growth in downloads over the past week.

We often hear about the burnout of individual developers or entire creative teams that have gone through a crunch. The Red Dead Redemption 2 team from Rockstar and the bankrupt Telltale studio faced rework.

The number of monthly active Steam users has reached 90 million. Valve representatives told about this at the Melbourne Games Week conference.

The Japanese battler Monster Strike has earned $7.2 billion dollars since its release in 2013. Now it is the highest-grossing game in the history of the App Store and Google Play. This is reported by Sensor Tower.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 23.

Publisher Voodoo releases one successful game after another. Hyper-casual games from Voodoo generate 100 million downloads per month. The secret lies in the great creative freedom that the publisher provides to its developers.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 22.

Alisher Usmanov’s USM structure and Megafon mobile operator gave sole control over the holding Mail.ru Group. After the renewal of the board of directors, the management of the company was transferred to its top managers and partners.

We note the mobile games that have shown the fastest growth in downloads over the past seven days.

The authors of Skyrim and Fallout have launched a Russian office. It is located in Moscow. The office was headed by Semyon Chirikov, previously responsible for global operations in Wargaming, as well as the promotion of Electronic Arts products in Russia.

We note the mobile games that have shown the fastest growth in downloads over the past seven days.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 11.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 10.

The owners of the Marmalade SDK mobile game development engine have announced that they are ceasing to invest in it. The main reason is the increased competition in recent years. Most gaming teams today prefer to use Unity and Unreal.

The authors of Pillars of Eternity will soon lose their independence. According to three sources of the Kotaku publication, the acquisition of Obsidian by Microsoft is at the final stage.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 9.