Square Enix has shipped to stores and sold “digitally” over 1 million copies of the role-playing game Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age for PlayStation 4.

French mobile game developer Gameloft has rolled back support for titles for the Windows Phone mobile platform.

The Twitter microblogging service will add information about the target audience of advertisements placed on the platform.

Valve has added digital gift certificates with a fixed face value to the Steam game store. They can be used to replenish the Steam wallet of another user of the platform.

September turned out to be hot. The players have shaken up their money by $8.3 billion. Most of the evergreen presidents went into the pockets of the developers of League of Legends, Destiny 2 and Fantasy Westward Journey.

Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of the Kinect contactless controller.

We are starting to publish video materials from the White Nights conference held in Moscow on October 10-11!

Very soon we will start posting video presentations from White Nights Moscow 2017. We offer to pass the time before their performance by reporting on the conference of our colleagues with GameGuru.

App Annie analytical platform has published game download and sales charts for September. Among the world leaders are Honor of Kings, Subway Surfers and Lineage M.

The Grand Theft Auto gaming franchise is being promoted by its fans more actively than others, according to a new study by Newzoo on the loyalty index (Net Promoter Score, NPS) of the most popular franchises in the video game industry.

Epic Games rolled out a new version of Unreal Engine 4. The update was the eighteenth large-scale update of the engine. Among the key innovations are three–dimensional maps, lighting and extensive AR support.

On the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, there are three failures for one successful video game financing campaign.

The public discussion about the monetization of video games through loot boxes did not affect the sales of large titles, according to the analytical company NPD Group.

GameCredits has signed a deal with Unity Technologies, which will allow developers on the Unity engine to place titles in the GPlay mobile app store. GPlay uses a cryptocurrency, which is also called GameCredits.

Facebook has taken drastic measures to promote Gameroom. The social network hints that the appearance of the game on the platform will increase its chances of a global feature.

Ex-BioWare employee Manveer Heir (Manveer Heir) believes that the Electronic Arts publishing house, in pursuit of gaming profits, forgot about the desires and needs of gamers.

According to the forecast of the analytical company Sensor Tower, from 2016 to 2020, the average user’s spending in the United States on iPhone apps and purchases in them will grow by 86% to $88 per year.

GameAnalytics named the most common mobile game genres, and also told whether retention, session size, ARPPU and the “stickiness” of the project depends on the genre.

The Hitbox Team studio will develop the first title for the interactive Twitch Extensions format, which allows viewers of the game broadcast on Twitch to interact with the stream.