The head of the publishing division of Epic Games in Eastern Europe and the author of the analytical service Steam Spy, Sergey Galenkin, presented data according to which the average income of indie developers on Steam has decreased by 50% over the past 2 years.

The metric that allows you to track the loss of audience in the product is called Churn rate (it is also the outflow of users). How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Pete Hawley has been appointed CEO of Telltale Games Studio. For the last three years, he has served as vice president and general manager of the gaming direction at Zynga mobile publishing house.

In August, the Nintendo Switch console for the fourth time in six months outstripped the “older comrades” PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in terms of the number of consoles sold in the United States.

The developer of Angry Birds named the preliminary value of its securities. At the time of the company’s entry into the stock market, the price of each will be from € 10.25 to €11.50. The capitalization of the entire Rovio will be in the region of €802-896 million.

In the two years since its release on iOS, the Fallout Shelter audience has grown to 100 million people.

Korean developer Pearl Abyss is preparing to go public after the commercial success of the role-playing MMO Black Desert Online.

Gaming revenues of the 25 largest public companies in the world in the 1st half of 2017 increased by 20% to $41.1 billion compared to the first half of 2016.

Apple has excluded the App Store from the iTunes media player for PC and Mac platforms in the latest update of the program.

Magic Leap is looking for $500 million in investments to accelerate the release of augmented reality headsets. These investments will raise the startup’s value to $6 billion.

In the spring of 2017, Supercell acquired a controlling stake in Space Ape Games. The transaction amount was $55.8 million. We talked with Simon Hade, co-founder of Space App Games, about the history of the deal and how games are being developed in the company today.

The director of the projects of The Last of Us and two games of the Uncharted series, Bruce Straley, left the Naughty Dog studio, where he had worked since 1999.

The president of Blizzard gaming company Mike Morhaime (Mike Morhaime) said that he opened the studio thanks to a loan of $ 15 thousand, which was given to him by his grandmother Mildred Miller (Mildred Miller) in 1991.

The Chinese corporation Tencent will release the MOBA Honor of Kings mobile frituplay on the Nintendo Switch handheld console.

The developer and publisher of the Syberia series has officially launched a new brand. Under the name Microïds Indie, the French company plans to launch projects of independent studios on the market.

The creator of the survival shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Brendan Greene, expected to sell no more than 300 thousand copies of the game in the first year after release. But in six months the game has sold more than 10 million copies.

The British branch of Nintendo has posted pencil sketches of game levels of The Legend of Zelda, released on the NES console in 1986.

Freelance artist Ben Mathis has collected a large selection of author’s video tutorials on creating game models and shares his experience for free on his website.

For the second month in a row, the Vologda-based company is among the top ten cash-register gaming companies on the Android platform. Her three-in-a-row Gardenscapes ranked 10th in the world in terms of revenue from Google Play among games by the end of August.