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Industry News January 15, 2020

Twitter Ads named most effective ad network for marketing console and PC games

Microblogging service Twitter is the best platform for marketing PC and console games, according to marketing company Gamesight. It even surpasses the major ad network from Google.

Industry News November 22, 2019

Russia to become Europe’s third largest games economy

SuperData and Wargaming published a joint report focusing on the CIS region. As per the findings of the study, Russia’s games market will grow 57% in 2019.

Industry News September 23, 2019

Digital video games bring in $8.9 billion in August

The last month of summer saw consumers spend $8.9 billion on digital copies of video games globally. 62% of this amount was spent on mobile.

Industry News August 23, 2019

Ubisoft: Now is a good time to invest in new IP

Ubisoft believes that now is the best time to develop new IP. This is due to the imminent arrival of next-gen consoles and cross-platform gaming.

Industry News August 5, 2019

Ooblets developers shocked by backlash over their “thing” with EGS

Glumberland, the indie studio behind Ooblets, signed a temporary PC exclusivity deal with Epic Games Store. The reaction of the community was overwhelmingly harsh, with the two-people studio of Rebecca Cordingley and Ben Wasser getting “thousands if not tens of thousands of hateful, threatening messages.”

Industry News July 22, 2019

Moddability to arrive on Microsoft Store

The PC gaming department of Microsoft Store has been historically lagging behind its competitors. However, last year, the company acquired several game studios including Obsidian and inXile. Then, in June, Microsoft launched Xbox Games Pass on PC, with over 100 big titles arriving on its storefront as part of the subscription. And last week, it seems, the publisher started implementing another feature to revamp Microsoft Store – the modding option.