A new GameDataCrunch project has appeared on the network, which collects data about games in one place based on third-party sites and open sources. The service does not provide information about sales, but gives access to metrics by which you can roughly judge the degree of success of different games.Who is behind the project?

Startups and India’s largest IT companies have teamed up against Google, which controls 99% of the smartphone market in the country. Local developers intend to create their own store in order not to pay a 30% commission on Google Play.What made Indian companies unite?

Good news from Belarus. Minsk-based game studio Neskin has received strategic investments from the Australian gambling giant Aristocrat, whose assets include such major gaming companies as Big Fish Games and Plarium.

The authors of the psychological horror Observer together with the Polish publisher Forever Entertainment founded the studio Fearful Entertainment. She will make remakes of famous horror franchises for Nintendo Switch.

Four years have passed since the launch of the Gardenscapes frituplein, but its indicators continue to grow. The DAU of the mobile title today is 11 million. In the year of the release of this match-3 game, it was 3.5 million.

The hub for publishing mods for NexusMods games has banned content about the US elections. At least until November 3, users will not be able to upload political mods to the portal.

The mobile version of Call of Duty continues to gain popularity. The monthly number of hours that users spend in the game, at its peak, approached 1 billion.On Android alone, players spent 850 million hours in Call of Duty: Mobile during the peak month.

We are posting a new issue of the program “Industry on Thursdays“. Yesterday our guest wasMaxim Fomichev, producer of Pixonic. We talked with him about how a major graphical update to War Robots is being prepared for release, including thanks to which the game was shown at the last Apple presentation.

Another gaming company may appear on the stock exchange. The media report on the plans of the social MMO Roblox to enter the securities market at the beginning of next year. At the same time, the company’s valuation may amount to $8 billion.