Following Fortnite, PUBG Mobile also introduced season tickets. In the first week after the start of their sales, the revenue of the game increased by 365%, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower.

The Walking Dead: Season 4 will be the last game made on Telltale Games’ own engine. Sources claim that the company’s new games will be made on Unity.

The developer of the banking software ACI and the analytical company Newzoo investigated the habits of gamers in three countries to understand how and for what they are willing to pay money in video games.

According to a report by the Gaming in Turkey agency, in 2017, the Turkish gaming market earned $810 million, of which $372.4 million came from the mobile segment.

Ubisoft has recently been criticized for touching on political and social issues in games, but is afraid to admit it. Responding to criticism, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that the company really wants players to think about complex and serious topics, but is not going to impose its position on them.

The author of the not yet released mobile arcade Donut County Ben Esposito (Ben Esposito) accused the French publisher Voodoo of plagiarism. As it turned out, Voodoo managed to make a clone of Donut County and release it in the App Store before the original.

ACHIEVERS HUB and UNIT companies.City has released a guide to the Ukrainian gaming industry. It reveals such questions as: how many gaming teams are there in the country, where are they located, what sources of funding are they using? We provide a brief version of the material.

Atari has quarreled with the technology publication The Register after the material about its future product — the Atari VCS console. According to Atari, The Register journalist distorted the words of the company’s representatives and outlined personal speculation instead of objective first-hand data. In response, The Register published an audio recording of the conversation confirming the initial allegations.

The European top 10 sales of games from June 11 to 17 have been published. FIFA 18 remains in the first place for the third week.

Microsoft Corporation now calculates royalties for game publishers using blockchain technology based on its own Azure cloud service. According to the company, the transition to blockchain will significantly accelerate payments to publishers who release their titles on the Xbox platform.

The Russian publisher and localizer of MMO games Innova has launched a mobile direction. The company is going to cooperate with independent developers of games for smartphones and tablets.

The World Health Organization has recognized gaming addiction as a mental disorder; Valve has started an open beta test of publishers’ pages on Steam; the development of a 16-year-old designer has become the game of the day in the App Store; — this and not only in the digest of the main events of the gaming industry from App2Top.ru .

Bethesda Softworks has filed a lawsuit against the Canadian studio Behavior Interactive. The reason was the Westworld mobile game based on the TV series of the same name, developed by Behavior. Bethesda claims that Westworld is an explicit clone of the Fallout Shelter mobile simulator, created based on the source code of the game without the permission of the copyright holder.

The most popular iOS game search queries in the USA are Love Balls and Word Puzzle Game. In Russia, the horror horror films Granny and Grandpa, as well as Helix Jump, are in the top.

Bluehole has acquired Korean developer Delusion Studio. What attracted the authors of the hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to a small studio without an impressive portfolio is still unclear.

A week ago, Valve updated the social functionality of the Steam platform, making it somewhat similar to the online gaming messenger Discord. On June 21, Discord also released an update that allows you to launch games through clients, as well as follow the news and events of friends, which, in turn, brought its capabilities closer to the Valve service.

Nintendo and Microsoft have launched a joint advertising campaign in honor of the release of the Minecraft multiplatform update. “It’s better together,” the competitors assure, while Sony continues to resist and does not allow playing under the same account on different platforms.

According to the analytical company NPD Group, cards with digital codes and gaming accessories became the main engines of growth in the US gaming market in May.

According to eMarketer, the average adult US citizen spends 3 hours and 50 minutes in front of the TV, and uses smartphones for 3 hours and 35 minutes. Analysts are confident that smartphones will bypass TV in 2019.