If your game has a store, you should definitely find out what a consumer basket is. How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

MMO games have been added to the piggy bank Mail.Ru Group 4.3 billion rubles in just 3 months. From August to September. This is 82.6% more than a year earlier.

A report by Kirill Shabordin from Social Quantum. The speaker spoke about what awaits a company that will embark on the path of developing its own engine.

Hi-Rez Studios held a “soft launch” of the mobile MOBA Paladins Strike in Australia, based on the “heroic” PvP shooter Paladins for PC and consoles.

Softlonch Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp goes better than Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem. The social game reached the top of the top of the Australian App Store faster.

Scrolling shooter on mobile can earn money. Alexander Enin, head of IT Territory, is sure of this (Mail.Ru Group). With App2Top.ru he shared the story of the development of the mockup Hawk: Freedom Squadron.

Israel is not afraid to invest in Russian IT. The WebMedia Group, headquartered in Ashdod, is ready to invest $5 million in players in the Russian mobile advertising market.

How are things going with one of the brightest mediators of mobile advertising – Appodeal? How much does he earn? How does it work? Why did you buy Corona? How much is estimated by potential buyers? Answers to these questions in an interview with the founder and CEO of the company Pavel Golubev.

The average gaming session in the virtual reality mode of the horror Resident Evil 7 lasts twice as long as sessions of other VR games for PlayStation 4, according to Sony.

The Finnish mobile developer has seriously launched a new Best Fiends Rivals title in the softlonch, belonging to the Best Fiends puzzle franchise.

The developer of GameMaker Studio 2, YoYo Games, has agreed with Microsoft to provide users of the engine with access to the Xbox Creators Program.

Which genres of commercials work best? Such a question was asked by AppLift analysts. They found out that the most effective video shows that promotes games in the genre of adventure (Adventure).

A report by Alessandro Canossa from Ubisoft. Using the example of Tom Clancy’s The Division players, the speaker talked about how a special group of influencers from social networks can influence the rest of the free-to-play game community.

The UK government has responded to a civil petition to recognize video games with loot boxes as a form of gambling entertainment and to introduce age restrictions on such titles. Officials promised to study the problem more deeply and respond if necessary.

Game development is not the healthiest activity today. This is the opinion of Jason Schreier, editor of Kotaku and author of the book about the difficult life of developers “Sweat, Blood and Pixels”. Why so, he told on the pages of The New York Times. We offer a short translation of the material.

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.