The Oceanhorn mobile adventure game was released on the Nintendo Switch this June. On the new console, its sales turned out to be more than the total on all console platforms where it had previously been released.

How the cash game top is distributed between three types of genres (casual, midcore and hardcore), the startup Playliner told in its research.

According to Daniel Ahmad, an analyst at Niko Partners, more than 1.3 thousand new games have been released on Steam since the launch of the Steam Direct service.

The German advertising agency Glispa has acquired the Israeli company JustAd, specializing in the creation of playable advertising for mobile platforms and the web.

The editorial selection of Indie Corner with games from independent developers in the Google Play mobile app store has generated over 380 indie projects in 1.5 years of existence.

The Destiny 2 multiplayer shooter from Bungie simultaneously gathered over 1.2 million players in the first weekend after the release. This is more than the main Steam hit of this year – Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, which recently surpassed the mark of 1 million players.

If you do not know how to implement a convenient touch control into a mobile game and dream of hanging realistic vines at your level, a new selection of plugins for UE4 on App2Top.ru .

How esports and cryptocurrencies are changing the market and the gaming industry will be discussed as part of special panels and lecture series at White Nights Moscow 2017.

Jam City Studio, the developer and publisher of Cookie Jam (64th place in the box office top of App Store apps in the USA) and Panda Pop (57th place in the box office top of App Store apps in the USA), is entering the market of text-based mobile games.

The analytical company Newzoo presented the August rating of the 20 most popular titles on the PC platform.

About a new round in the development of the mobile games industry and one of its brightest representatives, – on the pages mobilefreetoplay.com told Adam Telfer (Adam Telfer), a former product-lead Wooga. We publish a translation of the material.

The digital advertising market for young audiences will increase to $1.2 billion by 2019 and will occupy 28% of the total volume of advertising products aimed at children, according to the forecast of the consulting company PwC.

The metric that reflects the time spent by the user in the product is called total daily play time. What to do with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Gambling for virtual money is a popular entertainment in English–speaking countries. Which genres of social casino are most popular with users, – Newzoo, a company specializing in gaming market research, told in its publication “A New Look at Social casino players”. We offer a summary of the material.

The American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association of America (SFWA) will begin awarding the Nebula award in the new nomination “Best Game Scenario” in 2018.

The VKontakte social network will host the VK High Score conference in Moscow on October 12. It is aimed at developers of games for VK social and mobile platforms.

The developer of MMX Racing and Smash Bandits Racing has released a new game about racing cars. It has been downloaded more than a million times in a week.

The market value of CD Projekt Red in the first half of 2017 amounted to $2.3 billion – more than twice as much as a year earlier.

The Finnish company Rovio has announced the holding of MumJam 2017, a training seminar on game design aimed at women with children.