There will be one less site for browser games. King has announced the closure of the Royal Games portal, which has been operating since 2003. The official reason is changes in web technologies. But the closure could also have been facilitated by an investigation by PayPal concerning gaming payments in certain countries.

The PayPal payment system and the analytical company SuperData Research studied the costs of gamers: how much they spend on buying games and game content, how much they donate to game streamers and where they prefer to buy new titles.

In most countries, the most popular genre is action. In Russia, the most popular shooter games. Our PC players are also characterized by impulsiveness when buying games and high monthly spending on them.

According to the research company Gartner, the volume of the mobile commerce market will grow by 44% worldwide and reach $235 billion this year.

According to the new PayPal rules, transactions in rubles will appear in the system from November 1.