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.

The document is called “Lifetime Value: the main metric of the project”. The paper examines in detail what methods of calculating LTV exist and what are the pros and cons of each approach.

For Grow Beetles, the White Nights conference, which ended a couple of days ago, was very successful. The project found a well-known publisher who guaranteed the game to receive 1 million paid installations.

The new method of counting game owners on Steam, which has already been adopted by the Steam Spy service, no longer works. This possibility was eliminated by Valve itself, said the author of the method, indie developer Tyler Glaiel.

Half of the gaming teams in mobile don’t mind changing their advertising partner. Some of them consider their earnings from advertising to be low. This was told by the Clickky platform, which interviewed 430 mobile game developers.

The Indian company Kaaya Tech plans to release HoloSuit gloves and suits for virtual reality by November of this year. The minimum goal of the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign was achieved in less than a week.

App Annie revealed the results achieved by projects that, following the results of 8 years of the App Store’s existence, topped the top of the most profitable and most downloaded games on the iOS platform.

Frontier Developments refused to develop projects for other companies a few years ago and focused on publishing its own. Now the authors of RollerCoaster Tycoon and Elite are doing so well that they are considering becoming a full-fledged publisher.

Wanted: a leading game designer at G5, an art manager at Social Quantum and an HR manager at devtodev.

On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone went on sale. In honor of the tenth anniversary of the event, App Annie held an App Store retrospective. Briefly about the most important of the report — in our material.

A single bagel with a card fight Slay the Spire has already been bought more than a million times, although the game is still in early access. How did the developers do it?

In almost two years since the launch, Nintendo’s Super Mario Run mobile game has earned $60 million, Sensor Tower analysts estimate. Compared to the top games on the mobile market, this is very little, but can this project be considered a failure?

The growing popularity of the Discord messenger poses a real threat to Stream, according to SuperData analysts. If Steam ceases to be a platform for user communication and remains only an online store, large companies will leave it in order not to share their revenue with Valve.

Kotaku has gathered rumors around Google and the Yeti streaming platform under development. At the moment, it is known that the company en masse hires experienced developers and actively discusses the prospects of the platform with possible partners.