In America, more copies of Grand Theft Auto V have been sold than any other game since 1995. This is reported by the analytical company NPD Group.

The North American esports League (LCS) MOBA League of Legends will switch to a franchise basis. The cost of a team place in the league will be $10 million.

2,519 mobile game developers in 2016 were able to earn $1 million or more on their products, according to the financial company Pollen Velocity Capital.

What is the difference between ARPPU and ARPU and the average check, why count and track this metric, and also how it is easiest to increase it, said Vera Karpova, analyst at devtodev.

The average American Android user spent about $30 on apps in 2016. $27 of them fell on mobile games, according to the analytical firm Sensor Tower.

Studio People Can Fly and Square Enix announced a joint work on a certain AAA-class game for consoles and PC.

For the Big Bang Racing game from the Finnish Traplight, users have made 7 million levels. We talked with the team about the experience of working on a project in which user content is at the forefront

Amazon has started offering customers a refund service for unauthorized purchases in mobile apps (IAP) made by their children.

The publishing firm Take-Two Interactive sees an opportunity to increase the number of microtransactions in the games it publishes.

A detailed guide to the organization of the showcase. How to effectively show your game and not forget anything, – says Yaroslav Kravtsov.

The developer of the DayZ survival simulator and the ArmA military series — Bohemia Interactive studio — has introduced a free tactical shooter Argo without in-game micro-purchases.

The Pokémon Company’s net profit for 2016 amounted to $143 million, an increase of 26 times compared to the previous year.

Mobile advertising with the ability to try out a game or an application is gaining popularity among advertisers, according to a study by the analytical firm AdColony.

The business conference for the gaming industry White Nights St.Petersburg will begin on June 14. The event will host round tables on various topics, including games for children. We invite our readers to ask the participants of the discussion a question. Two authors of the most interesting questions will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

The American publisher Take-Two Interactive Software has acquired the rights to the educational space simulator Kerbal Space Program.

The Ukrainian social casino operator Murka has tripled its revenues for the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same quarter last year.

The Swedish indie company Stillfront Group has acquired the Irish studio eRepublik Labs, known for the Age of Lords mobile strategy — the ideological heiress of the Game of War studio Machine Zone.

The revenues of the Forge of Empire mobile strategy for the entire existence exceeded € 250 million ($ 279 million), according to the German developer studio Innogames.

Yesterday, May 30, HeroCraft released a large-scale story supplement to Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf. In honor of this event, we talked with the team about the success of the game two and a half years after its release, the user price for tactical strategies and the first results on Steam.