The Overwatch multiplayer shooter earned $1 billion and became the fastest growing franchise in Blizzard’s history, according to Activision Blizzard’s financial report for the first quarter of 2017.

Niantic plans to organize mass processions of Pokémon GO and Ingress players in the USA. For this purpose, they plan to block traffic on the streets.

The analytical company Verto Analytics has identified the 10 most popular mobile games in the United States for March of this year.

The top 5 US box office games generated 28% of money and 13% of downloads of the US mobile games market in 2016.

The Japanese smartphone gaming market has been stagnating since 2014, according to research company Yano.

For the first quarter of 2017, the revenues of Glu Mobile, known by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, amounted to $56.8 million, but it is still in the red.

Quarterly revenues of Japanese mobile developer GungHo Online Entertainment increased by 2.7% to $229 million compared to the previous quarter.

The revenues of the Chinese gaming market will increase from $26 billion to $35 billion by 2021, according to the analytical company Niko Partners.

A public gaming company from Australia is in talks to buy Israeli developer Plarium. The price of the issue is a transfer of $900 million, plus $500 million for future results.

Publisher ZeniMax Media forced indie studio No Matter Studios to change the name of their project from Prey for the Gods to Praey for the Gods.

Apple will raise prices for App Store apps in Mexico, Denmark and the countries of the European Monetary Union, Pocket Gamer reports.

The Xsolla Capital investment Fund, in cooperation with Epic Games, announced plans to invest in indie developers who create games on Unreal Engine 4. More about the contract App2Top.ru I asked Dmitry Burkovsky, Xsolla’s vice President for Business Development.

Mobile social casino players spend $39.87 per month on their favorite genre. The average length of their session is 57 minutes.

The Xsolla Capital Investment Fund, in collaboration with Epic Games, will help independent developers using the Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) engine.

The Steam platform presented statistics on the work of the support service and the response time to user requests on various issues.

The mobile platform for esports games Skillz reported doubling its revenue to $100 million over the past 8 months.

Danish studio SYBO has announced the hiring of Hollywood producer Sandra Schwartz and Star Wars Rebels screenwriter Brent Friedman to work on Subway Surfers series.

Sales of the multiplayer action game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds exceeded 2 million copies in just over a month.

The Instant Games gaming platform is coming out of beta. Facebook has announced the expansion of its audience and the launch of new functionality.