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.

The release of the Direct Games mobile gaming platform from the VKontakte social network took place. The key feature of the platform is the ability to launch HTML5 games directly from the VK mobile application without a separate installation.

Canadian mobile game developer Hibernum Creations has laid off most of the studio’s staff — over 100 employees.

Korean studio Pearl Abyss for the first time showed a gameplay teaser of the mobile role-playing MMO Black Desert Mobile, which can become a competitor to Lineage M from NCsoft.

Which search queries related to games were most popular in the territories of the USA and Russia in July, – App2Top.ru the representative of AdvertMobile told.

According to the results of the 2nd quarter of 2017, the Chinese corporation Tencent earned more on mobile games for the first time than on PC titles.

Russian game designer Anton Telitsyn told Kotaku about the plan to raise the Lord Coin cryptocurrency market in the Lordmancer II mobile MMO project, which can be mined in the game and converted into real money.

In his interview with the Russian Forbes, Mobirate CEO Anton Belov said that his company spends $ 200 thousand on the development of one game.

Indie studio Butterscotch Shenanigans has announced 500 thousand copies of the Crashlands survival simulator sold.