Blizzard Entertainment has revealed the mechanics of dropping valuable game items in a number of its MMO projects. Getting standard prizes increases the chance of knocking out rare rewards in the future.

From March to June, revenue from MMO projects for desktops continues to grow continuously in Russia. At the same time, the dynamics jumps. In June, the turnover increased by only 1%.

MMO survival simulator PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has overtaken GTA V in terms of the number of gamers who are simultaneously in the game on Steam.

A report by David Reichelt from Color Switch Productions, Inc. The speaker shared the story of the creation of the Color Switch game and talked about how to make a game that will not get lost among other projects.

The Scottish studio Outplay Entertainment reports that its game in the genre of “castle defense” Castle Creeps TD has overcome the mark of 5 million installations in just six months.

What is the difference between slots in the App Store and Google Play from real slot machines and how best to monetize users hooked on mobile casinos, – said Akim Denisov, co-owner of Orc Work Games.

The studio-developer of the mobile hit Subway Surfers, SYBO Games has hired game designer Amy Kalson, who worked on The Sims and Bejeweled game series.

The American company Atari has demonstrated the appearance of a new product — the Ataribox game console, announced at E3 this year.

The authors of the browser-based role-playing MMO game Runescape from the Jagex studio have announced the release of two versions of their work on mobile platforms in the near future.

The mobile online golf Golf Clash of the British studio Playdemic earned $1.1 million in one day on July 4 of this year.

The main page of the Twitch streaming platform will begin displaying the Twitch Pulse social stream from clips and broadcast recordings.

A report by Evgeny Kozlov from Twitter. He talked about how to use Twitter as a marketing channel to promote games and apps.

Mail.Ru The Group has published the results of a study of the Russian online gaming market. Its volume for 2016 amounted to 56.7 billion rubles ($845 million). 29% of this amount was accounted for by revenues from mobile games. This is 54% more than a year earlier.

Wargaming has pre-launched the action-MMO World of Warships Blitz on the App Store and Google Play.

Russian developers from a company owned by Mail.Ru Owlcat Games studios have raised more than $900,000 on the Kickstarter platform to create a Pathfinder: Kingmaker role-playing game.

NetEase has announced a competition with a prize fund of $ 400 thousand as part of the promotion of the free mobile role-playing MMO game Crusaders of Light.

Finnish gaming company Next Games has acquired the studio Lume Games, specializing in augmented (AR) and mixed reality (MR) projects.

Round table on HTML5 games. The participants of the round table discussed the present and the near future of the platform, touched upon topics such as instant messenger games and the current capabilities of Instant Games, talked about whether such projects will replace native applications.

In twelve months, the price of one share of G5 Entertainment has increased from 33.6 Swedish kronor ($4) to 302 Swedish kronor ($36.1).