In the two years since its release on iOS, the Fallout Shelter audience has grown to 100 million people.

Korean developer Pearl Abyss is preparing to go public after the commercial success of the role-playing MMO Black Desert Online.

Gaming revenues of the 25 largest public companies in the world in the 1st half of 2017 increased by 20% to $41.1 billion compared to the first half of 2016.

Apple has excluded the App Store from the iTunes media player for PC and Mac platforms in the latest update of the program.

Magic Leap is looking for $500 million in investments to accelerate the release of augmented reality headsets. These investments will raise the startup’s value to $6 billion.

In the spring of 2017, Supercell acquired a controlling stake in Space Ape Games. The transaction amount was $55.8 million. We talked with Simon Hade, co-founder of Space App Games, about the history of the deal and how games are being developed in the company today.

The director of the projects of The Last of Us and two games of the Uncharted series, Bruce Straley, left the Naughty Dog studio, where he had worked since 1999.

The president of Blizzard gaming company Mike Morhaime (Mike Morhaime) said that he opened the studio thanks to a loan of $ 15 thousand, which was given to him by his grandmother Mildred Miller (Mildred Miller) in 1991.

The Chinese corporation Tencent will release the MOBA Honor of Kings mobile frituplay on the Nintendo Switch handheld console.

The developer and publisher of the Syberia series has officially launched a new brand. Under the name Microïds Indie, the French company plans to launch projects of independent studios on the market.

The creator of the survival shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Brendan Greene, expected to sell no more than 300 thousand copies of the game in the first year after release. But in six months the game has sold more than 10 million copies.

The British branch of Nintendo has posted pencil sketches of game levels of The Legend of Zelda, released on the NES console in 1986.

Freelance artist Ben Mathis has collected a large selection of author’s video tutorials on creating game models and shares his experience for free on his website.

For the second month in a row, the Vologda-based company is among the top ten cash-register gaming companies on the Android platform. Her three-in-a-row Gardenscapes ranked 10th in the world in terms of revenue from Google Play among games by the end of August.

Developer Robert Yang suggested and commented on different ways to solve the “blank slate” test — a test for developers that determines their literacy in creating level design.

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

The Japanese company Bandai Namco has announced its readiness to establish partnerships with developers of mobile games and applications, as well as to acquire them.

Optimizing games for legacy devices makes sense. A fifth of the iPhones in circulation were released before 2014.

As part of a special September event, Apple introduced five new devices. Three smartphones, a set-top box and a watch.