The revenue of mobile games in the App Store and Google Play for the first six months of 2018 amounted to $26.6 billion. This is 19.1% more than in the same period of 2017 last year, analysts at Sensor Tower calculated.

Fate Grand Order, a mobile role-playing game with freeplay monetization, has become the main source of revenue for Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony.

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.

In the five years since the release of The Last of Us, 17 million copies of the game have been sold, making it the best-selling game released by Sony.

We are looking into what happened to the shares of Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sony, Square Enix, Microsoft and Electronic Arts after their presentations at E3.

On June 12, at four in the morning Moscow time, Sony held its presentation of new products as part of E3. The company finally showed the gameplay of two major exclusives for PlayStation 4 — The Last of Us 2 and Death Standing. What else was shown — read in our material.

The PlayStation 4 console has entered the final phase of its life cycle. This was announced by the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment John Kodera at a reporting meeting with investors.

Sony has reported financial results for 2017. The company reported that 19 million PlayStation 4 consoles were sold last year. Since the release of the latest generation of PlayStation in 2013, Sony has sold more than 76 million PS4s worldwide.

The main exclusive Sony PlayStation 4 of last year noted yesterday Birthday. The game is a year old. During this time, the number of copies sold reached 7.6 million.

Sony Corporation has reported on the results of the work of the gaming division of Sony’s Game&Network Services for the 3rd fiscal quarter of 2017. Over the past three months, the company has delivered fewer consoles, but compensated for this with a significant increase in game sales.

Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai (Kazuo Hirai) is no longer the main person at Sony Corporation. Hirai handed over the position of CEO and president of the company to his deputy Kenichiro Yoshida.

Sony Corporation is waiting for 130 fresh projects for PlayStation VR this year in addition to the 150 available games. If the forecast comes true, the library of PSVR-compatible games will grow by 80% by the end of 2018.

Sony Corporation is increasing production of PlayStation Move motion controllers to promote the PlayStation VR virtual reality helmet. Its closest competitor in the person of Microsoft’s Kinect system dropped out of the race the day before.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot predicts the appearance of the next generation of consoles no earlier than 2019 due to the release of “enhanced” versions of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

In the first half of the year, sales of Sony’s Games and Network Services division increased by 131% to $6.9 billion compared to the same period last year.

Sony Music Entertainment has launched a new gaming label, Units, to publish titles on the Nintendo Switch console and other platforms.

Microsoft is negotiating with Bluehole Studio to extend the exclusive period of the PvP shooter version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for the Xbox One platform amid negotiations on the release of the game on PS4.

The president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Andrew House, announced his departure. He worked at Sony Corporation for almost 27 years.

Sony will not compete with Nintendo Switch in the portable console market after weak demand for the PlayStation Vita handheld console outside Japan and Asia.