Mail.Ru The Group has announced a major update to its myTracker analytical system. Dmitry Krutitsky, the project manager, told us how the platform has changed since the announcement in 2015 and what it can do today.

Round table on VR development. Experts discussed the future of VR in the gaming industry. Virtual reality projects — the key to future success or a waste of time? What difficulties will developers face in the near future? What opportunities will open up for them? Which business model is more suitable for VR – paid or shareware?

The Chinese corporation Tencent has scheduled the official release of its most successful mobile game — Honor of Kings — in the United States and Europe in September this year.

Japanese developer and publisher GREE is closing offices in Melbourne, San Francisco and Berlin, laying off employees and winding down direct operations in the West.

What is ROI, what are the ways to calculate the return on investment, how to track the rate of return and what other indicators exist that help in assessing the commercial success of an investment project, – says Vera Karpova, analyst at devtodev. 

Swedish developer and publisher Paradox Interactive compensates gamers with its games for money lost due to purchases of the company’s titles at inflated prices on Steam.

In two years, Rocket League sports car-action has gained a base of 33 million players, according to the game developer studio Psyonix.

Maxim Babichev ‘s report from VK.com . He talked about a new platform for html5 games, Direct Games, launched directly in VKontakte mobile clients.

Red 5 Studios has stopped working on the team MMO shooter Firefall for the sake of developing its mobile version.

A report by Georgy Efremov and Yuri Ledin from EPAM Systems. The speakers talked about the specifics of working with AR/VR projects, as well as how the acquired knowledge influenced the design of user experience, content production and development techniques.

Gameplay videos of the Frontier Chronicles midcore strategy from the kimbee St. Petersburg team were blocked on YouTube at the request of the authors of Candy Crush Saga.

Publisher and developer of casual games G5 Entertainment in the second quarter of 2017 forecasts revenue of $32.7 million, which is 165% more than in the second quarter of last year.

Appsflyer told about the retention level, the average number of events per installation and ARPPU of casual games and puzzles in the Casual & Puzzle Games Data Benchmarks study.

Nintendo’s Super Mario Run mobile game has surpassed the milestone of 150 million downloads 7 months after its release.

The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation has recognized a new sport — “interactive football”, equating it to mini-football and beach soccer.

Mobile marketing company AdColony has laid off almost 100 employees due to the introduction of automated (programmatic) advertising sales.

Nikita Zatsepin’s report from BlueStacks. He talked about the types of players who play games on a variety of devices, as well as what the value of these players is.

Removing an extra element on the field is the most popular booster in three-in-a-row games. It is found in almost every similar game,” Playliner reports in its latest research on Match-3.

The Finnish studio Supercell has provided a grant of €250 thousand to the Helsinki Higher School of Art, Design and Architecture of Aalto University.