Racing games are very popular among players. According to a new study by Newzoo, almost a quarter of all gamers call them one of their favorite genres. At the same time, racing fans earn more on average than other players.Most of all, racing is played on consoles

A new GameDataCrunch project has appeared on the network, which collects data about games in one place based on third-party sites and open sources. The service does not provide information about sales, but gives access to metrics by which you can roughly judge the degree of success of different games.Who is behind the project?

The analytical company Newzoo compared the performance of the largest streaming platforms Twitch and YouTube Gaming in the 1st quarter of 2018. Twitch leads by a margin in the main parameters, but in some indicators YouTube Gaming is catching up and even overtaking its competitor.

Steam started the year with records. The number of simultaneous users on the platform in the first week of 2018 exceeded 18.5 million people. This is the largest indicator in the history of the service, according to the Steam Database resource.

The analytical site Steam Spy was cut off from the data of the Valve game store for unknown reasons. This was told by the creator of the service Sergey Galenkin on Twitter.

Valve will add histograms with the dynamics of positive and negative ratings to the Steam game pages. This will help to resist the “review-bombing” — the collapse of the game’s rating with a large number of negative reviews.

The independent Steam statistics service Steam Spy suggests that fans of online shooters have become less likely to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive because of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds.

The role-playing action Path of Exile has updated the attendance record, simultaneously gathering more than 98 thousand gamers on Steam after the release of The Fall of Oriath supplement on August 4.

From January to May 2017, over 2 thousand games were hosted on the Steam platform. This was announced by the gaming industry columnist Daniel Ahmad on Twitter.

The average American Android user spent about $30 on apps in 2016. $27 of them fell on mobile games, according to the analytical firm Sensor Tower.

The Russian studio Pixonic presented statistics for the third anniversary of the mobile team action War Robots: the game was installed 50 million times on iOS and Android.

The audience of the Discord game chat application has reached 45 million users in 2 years of existence.

AppsFlyer analytical service told about the average revenue per user in mobile strategies.

According to the annual report of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), in 2016, digital copies accounted for 74% of the total number of video games sold in America.

Downloads of VR games and apps from the App Store and Google Play in 2016 reached 226 million, which is 276% more than in 2015.

Mobile device users in South Korea mostly play on them for 46 minutes a day.

According to SuperData, the global virtual reality market totaled $1.8 billion last year.

The survival simulator PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds took third place in the Steam popularity rating and broke out into the leaders in views on Twitch for the first week of early access.

Almost 90% of game developers constantly or periodically work beyond the time stipulated in the contract.