Mobile games may be despised by a certain group of players. At the same time, it would be a mistake to assume that only a casual audience plays in them. As the analytical company EEDAR insists in its research, the most avid gamers also do not deny themselves this pleasure.

According to Newzoo, in two years, the revenue of the American gaming market has increased by $6.8 billion and now stands at $30.4 billion.

NPD Group specialists analyzed the June indicators of the US gaming market. Compared to last year, sales of gaming hardware jumped by 52%, with the inexpensive retro NES Classic console selling best.

The role-playing game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes in the USA, the game began to earn noticeably less, and in Germany, on the contrary. 

The new Nintendo console has a great year in the States. According to its results, it will overtake the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the number of copies sold. This forecast was made by Mat Piscatella, an analyst at NPD.

Analysts from Sensor Tower made the top 10 countries in terms of App Store spending per capita. It turned out that no country in the world can compare with Japan in this indicator.

Games in the App Store earn more money compared to Google Play, but Apple’s mobile platform does not guarantee high and stable incomes for most iOS title developers. According to the analytical company Apptopia, the revenue of games in the App Store quickly peaks and falls, and three-quarters of all revenue comes from the top 50 box office titles of the store.

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.

Although digital sales of video games are growing every year, American gamers continue to actively buy physical copies of titles. According to a report by the analytical company Nielsen, 66% of console owners in the United States prefer a game on disk to its digital version.

Thanks to the release of the action adventure God of War, gamers in the United States spent $ 124 million more in April this year than a year earlier. The new God of War also helped sell the maximum number of PlayStation 4 consoles and games for this platform last month, according to the analytical company NPD Group.

California studio Blind Squirrel Games has reduced one tenth of its staff due to the sudden cancellation of work on an unnamed project. Blind Squirrel Games is known as the creator of HD remasters for games of the Bioshock and Borderlands series.

Zynga has reported financial results for the 1st quarter of 2018. The California company’s revenues have grown and it has made a profit despite the pessimistic forecast.

The founder of Zynga, Mark Pincus, has exchanged his shares of the company with high voting rights for ordinary shares. Because of this, Pinkus’ voting rights as a Zynga shareholder were reduced from 70% to 10%.

The analytical company NPD Group has prepared a report on the state of the US gaming market in March this year. According to experts, the shooter Far Cry 5 debuted so successfully that it became the best-selling game in America not only in March, but also over the past three months.

The project manager of the Hearthstone card game Ben Brode announced his departure from Blizzard. Brod worked in it for 15 years, 10 of which were engaged in the development of Hearthstone.

Mike Verdu, Senior Vice President of Electronic Arts mobile publishing house, announced his departure from the company. According to Verdoux, the reason for his resignation was constant business trips and an unstable work schedule. He will leave his post at the beginning of May this year.

Two residents of Washington State sued four operators of social online casinos. The defendants were Huuuge Games, DoubleDown Interactive, High 5 Games and Playtika.

Last year, the average American iPhone user’s spending on mobile games increased by 13%. According to the analytical company Sensor Tower, if in 2016 they spent $ 32, then in 2017 this figure was already $36.

Chinese streaming service Huya announced its entry into the New York Stock Exchange. The company expects to earn $200 million on the IPO.