The multiplayer online fighting game with role-playing elements Absolver sold more than 250 thousand copies in 3 weeks and became one of the fastest selling games of the indie publisher Devolver Digital.

The game “My Country” has appeared in the App Store. One of the first builders and, in general, projects focused on the game exclusively within the framework of augmented reality.

Shares of Nintendo have reached the highest price in 9 years, the Wall Street Journal business publication reports.

The release of the free web course “Game analytics: from basics to advanced methods” took place. The author was the analytical platform devtodev.

A study by the Bazaarvoice advertising network and the Advertising Age marketing publication showed that out of 95% of advertisers using marketing information, 64% do not know from which sources this data is taken.

In November 2003, the Russian company Nikita released the first Russian MMORPG. The game was called “Sphere”. After 15 years, this title already has three projects. We talked to Olesya Koroleva, Marketing Director of Nikita Online, about how the series developed.

Valve will add histograms with the dynamics of positive and negative ratings to the Steam game pages. This will help to resist the “review-bombing” — the collapse of the game’s rating with a large number of negative reviews.

The head of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, was promoted to executive vice president of Microsoft and became one of the 16 top managers of the company.

This week, employees are looking for: LightMap (Pixel Gun 3D), Sperasoft (Assassin’s Creed Origins, Mass Effect, Star Wars Battlefront) and Nevosoft (“Planet of Gems”, “Wizards”).

Which search queries related to games were most popular in the territories of the USA and Russia in August, – App2Top.ru Sergey Zaichenko, CEO of AdvertMobile, told.

The Words With Friends word puzzle from the mobile publisher Zynga has gained more than 200 million downloads in 8 years of existence.

The main advantage of working with games under popular licenses is not that IP brings traffic. Another thing is much more important: they retain the audience. This is the opinion of Jon Radoff, CEO of Disruptor Beam studio, which developed Game of Thrones: Ascent, Star Trek: Timelines and the recent The Walking Dead: March to War.

Atari has agreed to cooperate with the crowdfunding platform Fig. As part of the partnership, they will develop and release two titles: a remake of the Atari gaming classics and a new intellectual product.

Arenas designed for virtual reality games will appear in the cinema halls of the Karo network. The first 7 VR halls will be launched in Moscow and the regions within six months.

Today, September 19, a new version of the iOS mobile operating system is officially released. What changes from the point of view of ASO are waiting for game developers in it, – the Russian-Finnish company AppFollow, specializing in optimizing programs in app stores, told us.

The British game studio Bossa Studios has invited former Valve screenwriter Chet Faliszek, known for his work on the stories Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead.

Company Mail.Ru The Group will invest €800 thousand in the Russian-Finnish mobile game developer studio Panzerdog and will receive a share in the company.

The Finnish company Rovio has signed a multi-year contract with the Liverpool football club Everton to apply the symbols of the Angry Birds franchise to the team uniform.

Gearbox Software will stop developing updates for the Battleborn team shooter after the release of the latest Fall Update.