According to the annual report of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), in 2016, digital copies accounted for 74% of the total number of video games sold in America.

The gaming video market continues to grow. The revenues of video content dedicated to games in 2017 will amount to $ 4.6 billion.

This April is the month of restarts. The updated Bayonetta and Planescape: Torment have already been released, and on the night of April 18-19, new versions of three retro products became available at once. We decided not to choose which one is closer to our heart: we tell you briefly about each one.

Ubisoft has announced the opening of offices in Bordeaux, France, and Berlin, the capital of Germany.

How to find the best formula for the retention forecast in his game, – App2Top.ru Vasily Sabirov, a leading analyst at devtodev, told.

Esports competitions have become the official discipline of the Asian Summer Games, which will be held in 2022 in the Chinese city of Guangzhou.

The RSA film company announced the creation of a VR division that will create VR and AR content.

Polish CD Projekt RED has opened vacancies for employees with skills in developing games for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.

South Korean Netmarble Games Corp announced the preparation of a target budget of 5 trillion won ($ 4.4 billion) for the acquisition of new studios and intellectual property.

On April 18, F8, a Facebook event for developers and partners, started. About the most important announcements of his introductory presentation – in our material.

We continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert.

A pirate game has been released on the App Store and Google Play Tempest. We are looking at the project.

The number of one-time participants in the matches of the Russian mobile action War Robots reaches 65 thousand people.

The Finnish gaming industry has slowed down after several years of rapid development.

Facebook has stopped counting the total number of mobile app downloads as an indicator of the success of advertising on its platform.

According to insider information, the Shanghai branch of Crytek is closed due to lack of money to pay for the rental of premises.

On April 9, the Spb Gamedev Meet-up was held at the headquarters of the VKontakte social network. The issuing editor App2Top.ru with a story about how it was.

The Bayonetta action game sold more than 100 thousand copies in its first week on Steam.

The manufacturer of slot machines International Game Technology has sold the studio-developer of social casinos Double Down Interactive to South Korean DoubleU Games for $825 million.