Virtual reality headsets have almost ceased to be sold. This is reported in a study conducted by Valve Corporation.

The fritupley hidden “Mysterious House” was installed more than 50 million times. In honor of this event App2Top.ru I talked with Maxim Donskikh, president of Game Insight, about the history of the game and its genre.

Sony is planning an active offensive on the mobile games market. Going to do projects with AR. This was stated in an interview with the Financial Times resource Kaz Hirai, CEO of the company.

A new iteration of the Unreal Engine has appeared. In version 4.13 – “hundreds of new updates”.

Disney is closing another project on the Marvel universe. This is Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2.

The German publisher and developer of mobile games Wooga announced a 10% reduction in staff. The company decided to stop creating midcore projects and focus on a casual audience.

With the support of GOG.com (entertainment platform and video game store, which is part of CD PROJEKT) website App2Top.ru continues to regularly analyze which PC games are in the greatest demand.

The number of unique users in Solitaire games has exceeded 100 million. A message about this appeared on the Microsoft website.

The analytical company Newzoo has published new forecasts about the esports competition market. Industry revenues will amount to $493 million by the end of 2016. This is 7% higher than the company predicted at the beginning of the year.

Google’s division, engaged in the development of innovative projects, is going to take up the creation of a multiplayer game on the Unity engine.

On August 25, the game Party Hard turned one year old. In this regard, we talked with its developer – the Ukrainian team Pinokl Games – about the history of the project and how it was conducted after its launch on Steam.

The French company Bulkypix, which was engaged in the publication of mobile games, is in the process of liquidation. Developers who have signed contracts with her cannot receive money from the company.

Among all regions, the highest average monthly ARPU for iPhone games from the box office Top 30 is in Japan. China is in second place. The average ARPU for top US games is only in third position.

The children’s game “Mi-mi-bears” has gained more than 1 million downloads in four months in the CIS. In this regard, we talked with Alexey Ilyin, the head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction, about the project, its development and the children’s games market.

On the official Twitter page of the SteamSpy service, which is led by the founder of the service Sergey Galenkin, two gaming tops have appeared. One shows the games that have lost the largest part of their active audience in two weeks since the release, and the second shows the games that, on the contrary, have acquired the largest number of online users in relation to the first day.

By the end of this year, the French gaming giant Ubisoft is closing six open-ended projects. It is believed that this is due to the company’s desire to focus on developing and supporting only premium products.

SOOMLA has collected in one post indicators by which you can roughly estimate how successful the game turned out to be. We share.

The director of Scream School told App2Top.ru about the history of the school, how its processes are built, as well as who and what it teaches.

This Saturday, August 27, a game jam for Russian-speaking developers will begin, the participants of which will have to develop an HTML game on the Defold engine for a month to win. The interest in jam brought Russia to the top countries in terms of the number of registrations of the King engine.