Mobile bubble shooter Panda Pop of the Californian company Jam City (in the past – SGN) has gained over 100 million downloads.

We are launching a regular column with a selection of the most interesting new products from the UE4 Marketplace.

On August 27, the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battleground was able to overtake MOBA Dota 2 in terms of the number of gamers in the game at the same time, temporarily becoming the most popular game on Steam.

Higher School of Business Informatics (HSE) NIU VESH collected data on marketing indicators of various genres of mobile games and prepared a table with the results.

How to analyze your own project correctly, which algorithm of actions to resort to when searching for problems, – says Vasily Sabirov, chief analyst of devtodev.

Alexander Neberekutin, co–owner of DevGame, which develops projects for brands such as Fixiki, told using his own examples how to analyze the behavior of children in applications and increase the performance of games with small changes in the UI.

How is work being done on decontracts of fritupley projects, – said Adam Telfer, founder of the blog mobilefreetoplay.com and the former product is the Wooga lead.

The head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, believes that mobile app stores take away the lion’s share of revenue from mobile game developers.

The Chinese Football Super League (CSL) announced its intention to invest $15 million in the creation of online games in the football manager genre over 6 years.

Anna Krizhanovskaya, Head of Social UA at Playrix, spoke in as much detail as possible about the difficulties that developers may face when buying traffic.

Sales of the MMO shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) on Steam exceeded 8 million copies in less than six months since the release of the game in early access.

What role is assigned to people who write in the development of games, – the writer Sergey Chekmaev told at the Higher School of Business Informatics of the Higher School of Economics within the framework of the program “Management of game projects“. We give a brief version of the speech.

Valve intends to stop issuing Steam store game keys to the authors of “gambling-like projects” created for the sake of manipulating the trading platform’s capabilities.

The total downloads of the cube shooter for Pixel Gun 3D mobile platforms amounted to more than 100 million. It took the game 4 years to do this.

Dollar sales of role-playing video games in the first 8 months of 2017 increased by more than 50% compared to the same period in 2016. The growth was provided by a line of strong releases from eastern and Western studios.

What can be learned by calculating Social LTV, as well as how to do it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

The popularity of the shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) beats the performance of competitors. Among those players who stopped playing Overwatch in July, 25% play Battlegrounds.

In the tank multiplayer blockbuster Wargaming, there will be story PvE campaigns that can be carried out alone. One of the tasks of the update is to reach a new audience.

Valve will stop uncontrollably issuing developers any number of game keys. The service explained this by fighting the sale of keys on third-party sites bypassing Steam.