The most popular search query in the USA on iOS in September was the word Destiny, and in Russia – Rider. What other mobile search queries related to games were popular in the territories of the USA and Russia – read in our joint material with AdvertMobile.

Fans of the “battle royale” of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds may not wait for the second part in the foreseeable future. Bluehole Studio will develop the project on the principle of “game as a service”.

At least 9 virtual reality games have earned over $1 million each in the Oculus Store app store.

Tencent Corporation has conquered Chinese users with a mobile game Such a Great Speech: Applaud Xi Jinping, where it is required to applaud the head of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping (Xi Jinping). On the launch day of October 18, it was played more than 400 million times.

Ex-BioWare employee Manveer Heir (Manveer Heir) in the Waypoint Radio podcast spoke about a misunderstanding between ordinary employees and the leaders of the Mass Effect: Andromeda role-playing game development team. Heir attributed this to “a lack of racial diversity in the project management.”

Representatives of several independent gaming companies and the Australian publisher Surprise Attack Games founded The Treasure Hunters FanClub (THFC) foundation to find, finance and promote promising indie studios.

Why keep documentation when developing a game, how to do it correctly and what tools to use for this, – said Anton Podakin, the leading game designer of Rocket Jump studio.

A few days ago, a massive update for Unity 2017 was released. The main innovations in it relate to working with two-dimensional games. Working with Maya has also been simplified.

The paying player is a welcome player. But this does not mean that the audience can be divided only into those who squeeze and those who pour funds. The payers are also different. How and why to divide them into segments, – says the analyst devtodev Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Independent studio inXile Entertainment has received a developer license for the Nintendo Switch platform.

Swedish indie studio MAG Interactive has acquired a local developer FEO Media, specializing in educational and social games.

The director of the God of War game series, Cory Barlog, defended games with a linear plot and a single-player campaign after news of the closure of the Visceral Games studio by Electronic Arts Corporation.

The Tapjoy mobile advertising platform has introduced a new format of mobile video ads called Interactive End Cards — interactive slides embedded in the video with additional information.

Finnish studio Fingersoft has opened a data-oriented publishing label for mobile games Round Zero.

Forbes business magazine has included Valve CEO Gabe Newell in the top hundred richest Americans. Newell’s fortune is estimated at $5.5 billion.

Testing of monetization in games has started on the HTML5 platform Instant Games. Facebook debugs advertising and microtransactions.

The creator of the music games Harmonix fired 14 people. The company explained this by the need to reduce overhead costs. This is the second reduction in the studio staff this year.

We talked about the situation around LawBreakers with Dan Nanni, BossKey’s lead designer.

The mobile strategy of Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire by MZ studio and Square Enix has crossed the milestone of 20 million downloads.