The implementation of game content has tripled the value of the gaming industry, according to a study by Digital River.

Big Huge Games Studio has hired former Epic Games creative Director Steve Superville and ex-Zynga COO Judith Hoffman.

Bandai Namco’s Tekken 7 fighting game has sold over 2 million copies on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One since its launch in June this year.

Sales of Nintendo’s retro SNES Mini console in Japan in the first four days after the release reached 368.9 thousand copies, the Famitsu edition reports.

Nintendo has announced an increase in the monthly production of Nintendo Switch consoles to 2 million copies.

Microsoft has officially confirmed the “death” of the Windows Phone mobile platform and announced the termination of the development of new features for Windows 10 Mobile.

The number of people simultaneously playing the free “battle royale” mode of the Fortnite shooter from Epic Games has reached 525 thousand people.

The rating company Newzoo together with the gaming service Overwolf presented a rating of the 20 most popular games on the PC platform in September of this year.

One of the speakers of the Moscow White Nights will be the Pixonic studio. She will make a report on the mistakes made in the development of the mobile PvP action War Robots. We suggest that the company come up with questions in advance. We will award you a premium ticket for the two best questions.

Lifetime is the metric that clearly shows the interest of users in the product. How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Blockchain technology has excellent prospects in the gaming industry. Alexey Meleshkevich, the founder of Total Games and Melesta Games, thinks so in his column.

On October 1, the interactive book for children “Green Riding Hood” by the Russian-Belarusian Bobaka team became the “App of the Day” on iOS 11. We tell you how it happened and what results it led to.

Sales of Windows Mixed Reality helmets from Microsoft may overtake Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets this quarter, according to Stephanie Llamas, vice president of the SuperData analytics company.

The client of the gaming platform Battle.net Blizzard has received new social features: voice and text chats, user profiles with avatars and the “don’t show me online” option.

Game publisher Kongregate has acquired 100% of mobile game developer Synapse Games for an undisclosed amount.

California-based mobile publisher Scopely has opened its first branch outside of America. The new office is located in Barcelona.

Unity Technologies, together with the Pluralsight training platform, has launched a course to teach the development of three-dimensional games on the Unity engine from the ground level.

Rhythm game The Idolmaster Million Live!: Theater Days (アイドルマスター ミリオンライブ！ シアターデイズ) for iOS from the company Bandai Namco has earned $10 million for 90 days. The game was not released outside Japan.

Ubisoft will buy up to 4 million of its own shares to prevent its takeover by the French media conglomerate Vivendi.