The MAU of streamers on the YouTube Gaming platform increased by 343% in 2017. This is reported by the analytical company Streamlabs in the report on the state of the gaming stream industry for the 4th quarter of last year.

The pace of initial sales of the Nintendo Switch in the first 10 months made it the fastest-selling home gaming system in the United States, according to Nintendo.

The NPD Group company spoke about the success of the US gaming market in 2017. According to researchers, sales on the gaming market increased by 11% and reached $14.59 billion.

Over the past year, Russians spent 5 billion rubles on the purchase of discs with games. That’s how much it took to purchase 2 million copies of games for consoles and 0.25 million games for PC.

The success of GTA V lasts almost 5 years in a row. The Rockstar Games hit took third place in sales of physical copies in 15 European countries in 2017, second only to FIFA 18 and Call of Duty: WWII.

Gaming startups in 2017 received about $ 25 million in total with the help of collective funding on crowdfunding resources, according to the analytical company Ico Partners.

In 2017, the rating of games with the most massive online on Steam was replenished with only one new title — the “royal battle” of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS from Bluehole Studios.

Prepare for the unexpected. The Steam digital PC games store has published several selections of the best-selling games of the past year. In addition to the obvious titles, like PUBG and ARK, there are enough not so well-known names in it.

Director of Publishing Strategy Epic Games and the author of the SteamSpy service Sergey Galenkin said App2Top.ru , which events and projects he considers the main ones in 2017.

Business Development Director of Belka Games studio Yuri Krasilnikov said App2Top.ru what has happened in his life and the life of the company over the past twelve months.

At the end of this year, the Odnoklassniki social platform published an extensive list of the best projects on its platform.

The head of marketing at PlayFlock, Ksenia Maslova , said App2Top.ru about how the year went for her company.

Vice President of Cubic Games Sergey Babaev said App2Top.ru about the successes and plans of his company and the blockbuster Pixel Gun 3D.

Development DirectorUnity Technologies in Eastern Europe Elena Zezulina told App2Top.ru how a year has passed for her and the company.

General Manager of Wargaming Moscow Andrey Zimenko said App2Top.ru about what I managed to do in a year in mobile Wargaming.

The list of the best games of the outgoing year was shared by the social network Vkontakte. The selection includes ten projects launched on the platform this year.

Creative Mobile CEO Vladimir Funtikov said App2Top.ru about how the current 2017 year has passed for his company.

The chief for working with developers on the VKontakte platform and executive producer Mail.ru Games Ventures Maxim Babichev told App2Top.ru about how he remembered the outgoing year.

Maxim Donskikh , President of Game Insight , said App2Top.ru about how successful the outgoing year was for his company.