A letter from the founder and CEO of the company Tim Sweeney (Timothy Sweeney) appeared on the official website of Epic Games. In it, he talked about why the authors of Fortnite and Unreal Engine took up abbreviations.

On September 20, the WN CEO Summit was held in Turkey. This time it was held in Istanbul. The event was attended by 100 top managers of gaming and IT companies from 16 countries.

Is it difficult for large companies to create new hits and why the presence of successful games in the portfolio can have a bad effect on creativity? These are the main topics of the fifth issue of Games and Names, a podcast about the gaming industry from AppMagic and WN Media Group.

Despite the difficulties of recent years, game studios continue to open and operate in Russia. An overview of the current state of regulation, primarily tax, for such companies was prepared by Roman Motorin, a lawyer at Versus.legal.

Based on the AppMagic data, the App2Top editors have prepared material about the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.

The new Unity collection is called Runtime Fee. It got its name in honor of the Unity Runtime library set. The company believes that since libraries are installed on users’ devices along with the game, the developer must pay for it. We talked about Unity Runtime with Kirill Shabordin, the founder of Yerevan Cowboys Games, and Alexey Pechenin, the founder of Infinite Art Solutions.

On September 12-13, a conference for game developers and publishers WN Conference was held in Limassol. Its guests were representatives of companies such as Google, Apple, Larian Studios, Ubisoft, Saber Interactive, Playrix, Owlcat Games and Sensor Tower.

Against the background of changes in Unity’s pricing policy, a number of gaming companies have decided to disable the monetization of Unity Ads and ironSource in all their games. They demand to cancel the new installation fee. Among the signatories of the appeal are Azur Games, Voodoo and many others.

Unity has announced a new pricing policy. Starting next year, if a number of conditions are met, the company will charge for each installation. Important: the installation will also be considered a reinstall (maybe it won’t be considered).

On September 6, the sixth Turkish event of WN Media Group took place on the shores of the Bosphorus. This time it’s a chamber WN Connect. It was attended by 151 people from 106 gaming or industry-related companies.

A new course will start on the WN Academy training programs marketplace next Tuesday. It is dedicated to the development and launch of advertising campaigns. The author is Kirill Oreshkin, who previously worked at Wargaming and Zorka.Agency.

In mid-October, the capital of Georgia will host MAMA, a conference on mobile analytics and mobile marketing. According to AppsFlyer, the organizer of the event, 350 participants are expected.

WN Media Group has announced a new WN Connect, which will take place next Wednesday in Istanbul. Among its participants will be Google, Xsolla, Kwalee, Udo Games, Game Factory, 23 Studios and many others.

A new episode of Games and Names, a podcast about the gaming industry from AppMagic and WN Media Group, has been released. This time the guest of the podcast was Arseniy Lebedev, CEO and co-founder of the Original Games studio. The hosts talked to him about the merge-games market.

WN Media Group has announced a new session of the WN CEO Summit. The event in Istanbul will bring together more than 100 owners, founders and CEOs of gaming companies.

This August, the total user spending on Melsoft Games mobile games for the entire time of the company’s operation reached the billion dollar mark. This is reported by the analytical platform AppMagic.

Based on the AppMagic database, App2Top editors have prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games in July.

Details of the next WN Conference have become known. It will be held in mid-September in Limassol. Among the speakers are Owlcat Games, Playkot, Tactile Games, Nexters, AWS, Google, Meta* and many others. More about the event is in our material.

Last week, WN Connect Shanghai`23 took place. We share its results and the first results of the ChinaJoy, Asia’s largest exhibition and conference of digital entertainment, held there in Shanghai.