The mini-console NES Classic Edition in April of this year was sold in America more successfully than the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, according to the company NPD Group.

Pirates can launch hacked games via Steam, disguising them as the work of the retro game Spacewar built into the service, the GytHyp website reports.

Bungie’s Destiny 2 MMO shooter will be released on the gaming service Battle.net and it will be the first game on the platform developed not by Blizzard Entertainment.

Last week, on May 10, the Russian publisher 1C, together with the Polish Destructive Creations team, Hatred authors, announced RTS about the Early Middle Ages Ancestors. We talked with the CEO of Destructive Creations Jaroslaw Zielinski about the project and its history.

The American games market in April increased by 10% to $636 million compared to last year thanks to sales of the Nintendo Switch console and games for it.

100 million players have registered in the projects of the German mobile developer upjers over 11 years of existence, the company said.

The developer of the adventure game Life Is Strange — Dotnod Entertainment studio — announced 3 million copies of the game sold and work on the sequel.

In April, Russian users left 10% more in online games for personal computers compared to the same indicator last month.

The audience of the Discord game chat application has reached 45 million users in 2 years of existence.

Advertisers will be able to place ads on the main page of the Google Play store and pages with lists of applications.

Google has opened access to the development of applications using Instant Apps technology, which allows you to run Android programs without downloading to devices.

Google has announced the development of a new version of the Daydream VR headset that does not use a smartphone as a screen.

At the annual Google I/O conference, the company introduced new tools of the Play Console platform for application developers under Android.

The revenues of the online gaming division of the Chinese company Tencent amounted to $3.3 billion for the 1st quarter of 2017.

The Russian studio Owlcat Games, together with screenwriter Chris Avellon, is creating a video game based on the Pathfinder desktop role-playing system.

The Netflix media company intends to make a series based on a series of fantasy novels “The Witcher” by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.

What is interesting about Her Story from the point of view of game design, – Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told as part of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.

The French publisher Ubisoft reported an increase in operating profit to €237.7 million for the past financial year. This is 40.7% higher than last year’s result.

Japanese horror Resident Evil 7 sold 3.5 million copies in the first quarter of 2017. His publisher – Capcom – is sure: this is not the limit. The company expects that the total sales of the game for all time will amount to 10 million.