This Monday, 3.5% of Ubisoft shares became the property of Guillemot Brothers SE. The company belongs to the family of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. The purpose of the purchase is to protect against a hostile takeover by the Vivendi conglomerate.

Virtual reality headsets have almost ceased to be sold. This is reported in a study conducted by Valve Corporation.

The fritupley hidden “Mysterious House” was installed more than 50 million times. In honor of this event App2Top.ru I talked with Maxim Donskikh, president of Game Insight, about the history of the game and its genre.

Former Bungie employees have raised $3.5 million to finance their own VR studio.

Sony is planning an active offensive on the mobile games market. Going to do projects with AR. This was stated in an interview with the Financial Times resource Kaz Hirai, CEO of the company.

Eric Seufert, former vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio and partner at the consulting agency Heracles Media, spoke about how a place in the top downloads affects the cash register of the application.

How to understand that the game turned out to be successful, what is a meta-game, why do the necessary daily tasks? The answers to these and other questions are in our selection of the main materials of the week.

A new iteration of the Unreal Engine has appeared. In version 4.13 – “hundreds of new updates”.

Disney is closing another project on the Marvel universe. This is Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2.

Its author, Alexander Simakhin, shared about all stages of the development of the minimalistic Slash Arena MMO in his blog. An expanded version of the material can now be read here.

Mobile apps for iOS that have not been updated for a long time, as well as those whose names are too long, will be removed from the App Store.

The developer of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale – the Finnish company Supercell – canceled an upcoming event for fans of their games.

What daily tasks are needed for and how to fit them into the game correctly, – said Alexander Collins, senior engineer at Mobile Games Company. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

The German publisher and developer of mobile games Wooga announced a 10% reduction in staff. The company decided to stop creating midcore projects and focus on a casual audience.

With the support of GOG.com (entertainment platform and video game store, which is part of CD PROJEKT) website App2Top.ru continues to regularly analyze which PC games are in the greatest demand.

Android apps that are in the open beta stage can now receive a feature on Google Play. The app store has launched a selection of Early Access specially for them.

The number of unique users in Solitaire games has exceeded 100 million. A message about this appeared on the Microsoft website.

The analytical company Newzoo has published new forecasts about the esports competition market. Industry revenues will amount to $493 million by the end of 2016. This is 7% higher than the company predicted at the beginning of the year.

Google’s division, engaged in the development of innovative projects, is going to take up the creation of a multiplayer game on the Unity engine.