Residents of Russia consider online games to be the main threat on the world Wide web. At least, that’s what the Youth Parliament at the State Duma says.

The mechanics of battle passes work great not only in shooters. This proves the successful experience of Supercell.

For the gaming industry, cosmosim Star Citizen is a unique phenomenon. The game is being developed with the money of players who have invested as much as $242 million in Star Citizen. This made it the most expensive gaming project in the history of crowdfunding. However, in seven years she has not gone beyond the alpha stage.

In early May, Zynga summed up the results of this year’s first fiscal quarter. The company reports revenue of $265 million. $246 million came from mobile. This is more than the company has ever earned in its history on mobile games. However, this happens against the background of financial losses.

Mobile startup GameClub Inc. intends to give a second life to old premium games. To do this, he has already raised $2.5 million. This money will be used for the official launch of the company at the end of 2019.

Activision Blizzard summed up the results of the first financial quarter of this year. It ended for her on March 31. The company’s consolidated net revenue was $1.8 billion. This is $140 million less than in the same period a year earlier.

The analytical firm Apptopia has identified the most successful publishers in the hyper-casual market. To do this, she estimated the total downloads of hyper-casual games from October 2018 to March 2019.

Tim Sweeney’s company has dealt one of the strongest blows to Valve. She acquired the authors of the Rocket League game. The latter is one of the most popular projects on Steam.

The CEO of Apple made a statement about the new Arcade game service. According to him, games for him are suitable for the widest range of users.

Steam Store has passed a new milestone. Over 16 years, more than 1 billion accounts have been created in it.

The troubles with Anthem don’t end there. While BioWare is trying to fix the systems in the game, user interest in it is steadily declining. Because of this, Anthem started having problems with the selection of teams to play together.

Google Play has removed part of the catalog of games and applications from the Chinese DO Global. 46 products of the studio, partially owned by the giant Baidu, have already disappeared from the store.

Sales of World War Z on PC exceeded the expectations of Saber Interactive studio. Her management attributes the success of the game to its exclusivity for the Epic Games Store.

Anno 1800 has become the fastest-selling project in the series. In the week since the launch of the game on April 16, its sales have four times exceeded the Anno 2205 result for the same period.

In May, the global phenomenon of Minecraft will be 10 years old. In honor of this event, Microsoft has planned a solemn anniversary, which, however, did not invite the creator of the game — Markus Persson (Markus Persson).

The PlayStation Now streaming service has overcome another milestone. The number of his subscribers exceeded 700 thousand.

The game Sea Hero Quest is designed to save people suffering from dementia. And she more than copes with her task. Its authors received research material that would take 15 thousand years to collect under normal laboratory conditions.

During the analysis of one hundred projects from the American gaming box office top, ASOdesk found out which practices of designing pages of mobile games are most popular among developers of top projects.

An unexpected fact about Shovel Knight: this 2D platformer was created on a three-dimensional engine. The secret of the game was revealed by the developers of Yacht Club Games for the popular YouTube project Boundary Break.