The AppMetrica analytical platform has announced new functionality. It is called “User Profiles”. This is a group of reports that shows data for each user individually. Among other things, we are talking about linking the history of his actions and attributes to the user’s profile.

The revenues of the mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions have grown almost fivefold, analysts from Sensor Tower reported. It’s all about the release of the movie “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and the corresponding new content in the game.

Voodoo buys up search traffic. The most popular iOS gaming search queries are for its products. In the USA — Hole.io and Color Road!, in Russia — Helix Jump and Snake vs Block.

Using a loophole in the statistics of gaming achievements, Ars Technica calculated the approximate number of game owners on Steam. The most popular game in the store turned out to be Team Fortress 2, which has more than 50 million owners.

Australia currently ranks 14th in the world in terms of player spending, Newzoo analysts have calculated. The total revenue of the market in 2018 will be $1.3 billion.

id Software has always been famous for creating games on its own engines, but its new project, Rage 2, is made on Apex. The head of id, Tim Willits, told what dictated such a decision.

Fate Grand Order, a mobile role-playing game with freeplay monetization, has become the main source of revenue for Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony.

Independent games have become an integral part of the global gaming industry and have ceased to be its antipode, says Rami Ismail, indie developer and co-founder of Vlambeer Studio. He stated this at The Big Indie Fest @ReVersed gaming conference, held in Austria on July 5-8.

The mobile version of the popular The Sims franchise generated over $15 million in 4 months after its release. The source of income was the in-game purchases of users on iOS and Android. The global release of The Sims Mobile took place on March 6, 2018.

A benchmark of mobile games, a list of the highest—grossing games in the history of iOS, as well as a selection of the most earning domestic games – this and much more in our collection of publications for the past week.

How relevant are crypto games today? How do they differ from regular video games? How is traffic attracted for them? I answered these and other questions in an interview with App2Top.ru Sergey Kopov, founder of the studio Sunday Games and 0xGames, in which he recently released the crypto game 0xUniverse.

The Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top.ru how the income of their developers is distributed by genre. She also revealed that she had paid ₽100 million to mobile developers in five months.

Amazing Korea. Here, user spending on Google Play games is not 70-80%, but as much as 94.4%. Such data was provided by the local analytical company WiseApp.

According to the estimates of the analytical company Newzoo, Taiwan’s gaming market ranks 15th in the world in terms of revenue. Local gamers will spend about $1.3 billion this year.

Former head of Wargaming Seattle Chris Taylor, creator of the Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander and Dungeon Siege series, answered questions from Reddit users, in particular, spoke about his work on a gaming platform for independent developers. We have compiled a selection of Taylor’s most interesting answers.

Todd Howard has been working at Bethesda Game Studios for a quarter of a century, he is responsible for the development of all the main projects of the studio. At the Gamelab Barcelona conference, he was awarded an award as an industry Legend. We present an extract from Howard’s speech, in which he spoke about the studio’s projects, his design principles and vision of the mobile market.

App Annie shared with App2Top.ru a list of the highest-grossing games developed by teams that were based in the post-Soviet space. The main selection criterion is that the game should have earned $25 million or more from January to June 2018. There were eleven such projects in total.

Before the end of the summer sale, Steam published a list of the best-selling and launching games of the season. What projects were included there?

In the rivalry between Fortnite and PUBG on the mobile market, the Epic Games project is still confidently winning. Fortnite Mobile has half as many downloads, but five times more revenue than its competitor.