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.

On the eve of the CEO Summit, we talked with Yulia Lebedeva. She is the permanent head of the organizing committee of all conferences White Nights. Among the topics are the working regime, management and, of course, the future summit.

Mobile The Elder Scrolls: Blades earned $1.5 million dollars in a month. The game was released in limited access on the App Store.

“Battle Royale” as a genre is one of the three pillars of Chinese financial well—being NetEase. And the company is doing its best to strengthen its position within this niche. The novelty of Cyber Hunter is proof of that.

IT giant Microsoft is dissatisfied with gaming sales for January-March. They were lower than expected. This was announced by Amy Hood, CFO of the corporation.

Ubisoft has announced the Bug Hunter Program in the Rainbow Six Siege team shooter. As part of this initiative, users receive in-game content for detecting errors inside the game.