In recent years, teams from Russia have increasingly chosen Unreal Engine to work. We tried to figure out why this is happening, how great is the demand for Unreal developers, what kind of specialists the market needs and how much they are willing to pay.

The only advertising format whose revenue is steadily growing from year to year is Rewarded Video. This conclusion can be drawn from the Appodeal study on eCPM in mobile applications.

The White Nights gaming business Conference will be held in Moscow on October 16-17. A representative of the TikTok social network will speak at it. We propose to come up with a question for the speaker. For the best — we give you a premium ticket to the conference.

Many games are associated primarily with their heroes. Through the character design, you can show the setting, visual and narrative of the entire product. How to do it right, experts from Blizzard, Naughty Dog and two other studios tell.

Major update from myTracker. Free analytics system from Mail.Ru Group can now count subscriptions from mobile apps. Including trial ones.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has made an investment in the Scandinavian game dev. She bought more than a quarter of the Norwegian publisher Funcom.

The stylish platformer Cuphead is two years old. During this time, its sales reached the mark of 5 million copies.

In early September, HeroCraft released the Hyperforma arcade game on the Nintendo Switch. This is one of the few Russian projects that have appeared on the site so far. We talked to the publisher about the history of the project, its porting from mobile and the difficulties the game faced during release.

We haven’t heard much about autobuttlers lately. But they are still played by millions. For example, MAU in Teamfight Tactics from Riot Games has reached 33 million players.

Yesterday, Apptopia estimated Mario Kart Tour downloads for the first day at 10.1 million installs. However, Sensor Tower analysts estimated that there were twice as many installations of the game.

Ubisoft studio has opened in Da Nang, Vietnam. She will focus on developing messenger games.

Creative director of Xsolla Andrey Podshibyakin has written a book about “iconic Russian (and not only) games”. It is called “Game Time!” and will appear on the shelves at the end of November.

Focus Home Interactive removes Frogwares games from the console stores of the Ukrainian studio. The latter claims that the former publisher has no rights to this. Moreover, these actions call into question the future of the company.

Indie studio Yacht Club Games is ready to become a game publisher. By the end of the year, she will release the latest addon to Shovel Knight and will start helping other indies to enter the market.

On the day of release, Nintendo’s Mario Kart Tour was downloaded 10.1 million times. This is a record. Previously, at the start, no game had collected such a number of installations.

VR helmet owners have spent more than $100 million on app purchases in the Oculus store. This was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) in the framework of Oculus Connect 6.

Facebook feed algorithms are unknown. At the same time, working with it is necessary to get feedback and increase the audience of the game. How to work with it effectively, in the material for App2Top.ru the ZiMAD company is divided.

App Annie analytics company has acquired a new asset. Since today, she owns the Libring data aggregator, focused on advertising and marketing.

Yesterday, September 25, the presentation of Oculus Connect 6 took place. We tell you what Facebook showed on it.