Unit sales of games for Switch in Russia for the first time exceeded the figure for Xbox One. But the leadership in the local retail market remains for PS4 games.

Neither viewers of streaming services nor Steam players are interested in the new Gears 5. This is very unusual for AAA from a major publisher, especially from the giant Microsoft.

Starbreeze has extended the restructuring period for the third time. The Swedish company was given three months to complete it.

Ubisoft is known for games for dozens of hours — such as Assassin’s Creed: Origins and Odyssey. Why the scale of its projects continues to grow, said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot.

Sales of games on Steam, as well as the income of their authors, decrease annually. One of the reasons the head of No More Robots Mike Rose (Mike Rose) considers too low prices for games.

Details of Apple Arcade, the gaming analogue of Netflix from the “apple” company, have become known.

VTsIOM continues to poll Russians on the topic of video games. According to the organization, only 26% of citizens approve of this hobby.

DFC analysts — about the current state of the battle royale market and future trends.

The first details about the next Talents In Games session have appeared. The conference for specialists of the gaming industry will be held in the capital of Belarus at the end of November.

There will be no award for “Best Mobile Game” at the next annual British Academy Games Awards.

Google is in full swing preparing to launch the subscription service Play Pass.

Technical testing of Project Atlas starts on Wednesday. This is a cloud gaming service from Electronic Arts.

The MicroProse company, known for the early Sid Meier’s Civilization, is returning to the industry. And she announced her future game title.

Updating the search on Steam allowed us to estimate the volume of indie content on the site. According to the “indie” tag, you can find over 40 thousand products in the store.

Apple’s policy regarding HTML5 programs continues to tighten. The other day, the company reminded about updating the list of requirements for such applications.

Mobile Pokémon Masters was released a week ago. It has already earned $26 million and became the second best launch in the series.

The “tank” giant followed the path Mail.Ru Group. The company opens its launcher for third-party projects.

To the urgent question of crunches. It is quite realistic to manage a game project in real time so as not to overwork developers. This opinion belongs to Tami Sigmund, producer of Zynga Studio.

The famous EVE Online is difficult to master. Last year, only 10% of 600 thousand new players stayed in it for longer than a week. To solve the problem, CCP Games will introduce an MMO “hotline” for beginners.