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app2top com site for game developers publishers and marketers home news analytics interview wn academy other projects wn media group wn events business events for the gaming industry wn academy training for gaming industry professionals wn game finder games catalog for publishers investors wn talents recruiting platform for the gaming industry wn hub communication platform for the gaming industry game world observer b2b media about the gaming industry in english subscribe to premium home news analytics interview wn academy developer glossary news yesterday almost half of surveyed steam users play video games exclusively on pc study analysts from the gamediscoverco service continue to survey steam users this time they decided to find out on which devices gamers usually play not just titles from their steam library but video games in general news yesterday over the past three months tinybuild games have garnered over 4 million wishlists on steam tinybuild s achievements were boasted about on the social network x by the company s ceo alex nichiporchik news yesterday russians have encountered fraud in online games much less frequently the department for combating illicit use of information and communication technologies of the ministry of internal affairs of russia reported this on its telegram channel igaming yesterday the igaming market in france reached 1 45 billion euros by the end of the first half of 2026 in france the gross gaming revenue ggr of licensed operators in the online gambling sector reached nearly one and a half billion euros in the first half of 2026 it grew by 11 compared to the previous year reported the local regulator anj news yesterday mobile game developers from turkey raised nearly 400 million over 22 months more than teams from any other countries recently investors have been generously investing in turkish mobile studios news yesterday the main events over the weekend october 17 18 the developer studio samson may have gone bankrupt a bioware veteran stated that cd projekt red s ambitions could lead it into big trouble and ratatan sales have been revealed we recap the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend app2top awards 2026 october 16 nominate candidates for the app2top awards 2026 gaming award this year the editorial team at app2top ru is hosting its own gaming awards it s called the app2top awards and it recognizes the achievements of gaming teams from the cis the editorial team invites its readers to select the nominees premium industry october 16 what horror games indie developers should create a visual benchmark of the niche in numbers and charts horror games represent a market with steady demand a relatively low entry barrier for developers and established rules in our new report we aim to examine how attractive this niche remains from a commercial perspective as always we include plenty of tables data and interesting observations news october 16 the fishlabs studio has been hit by a wave of layoffs the german studio fishlabs announced on linkedin that it has been forced to part ways with some of its employees news october 16 in russia skins in games will be allowed to be patented starting january 2027 the so called it patent law will come into effect in russia which will expand the possibilities for software patent protection according to the head of rospatent yuri zubov the innovations will also apply to game developers for instance they will have the opportunity to patent skins news october 16 in the united states a proposal has been made to legally grant gamers ownership rights to digital versions of games american congressman ritchie torres is preparing to introduce the power to the players act bill its goal is to protect gamers rights and prevent situations where publishers revoke access to purchased games news october 16 the horror metroidvania silver pines was purchased over 100 000 times at launch the developers from wych elm shared this information on social media news october 16 steam is testing a new achievement system valve decided to introduce another round of changes to its digital store s functionality this time it focused on upgrading its game achievements system currently available only in the beta version of the steam client igaming october 16 eu authorities and google are preparing a white list of igaming operators european gambling regulators together with google are working on creating a list of legal operators from the igaming sector this was reported by michel groothuizen head of the dutch supervisory authority ksa news october 16 the industry is rotting from the inside the creator of dayz spoke out against large corporations and released the source code of the brutal framework the creator of dayz dean hall published a lengthy post on reddit where he criticized the current state of the gaming industry in his opinion one of the main problems of modern game development is the greed of large tech companies and the dependence of developers on third party tools news october 16 lesta games has been sold its new owner is jsc industrial structures the gaming company lesta games is no longer owned by rosimushchestvo it announced its transition into the hands of a consortium of private investors from jsc industrial structures news october 16 sales of control resonant surpassed one million copies the action rpg reached this milestone three weeks after its release news october 15 the head of owlchemy labs identified the bulkiness of devices as the main barrier for the vr market the virtual reality market is still in its developmental stage due to the inconvenient form factor of vr headsets according to owlchemy labs ceo andrew eiche he made this statement in an interview with game developer news october 15 steam is experiencing wishlist inflation but they are still important analysis in the professional game development community there s a theory suggesting that steam wishlists have lost their former value game marketing expert chris zukowski explored this notion and shared his findings in the how to market a game blog news october 15 the steam version of war robots generated 50 million over eight and a half years in april 2018 my games released the mech shooter war robots on steam over the years the game has performed quite well 1 2 3 1 194 next about advertising wn conference user agreement wn media group welcome app2top ru