The new CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, in light of the success of New World on Steam, said that video games could become the largest entertainment category for the company.

Strategies are the third highest—grossing genre in the American App Store. They account for 17% of the store’s revenue. Such success of the strategy is partly due to the novelties that bring the mechanics of casual games to the genre. This was told in a recent report by the analytical company GameRefinery.

Polygon has published a lot of material about the history of the genre of hidden object games. It tells about the first projects with Hidden Object mechanics, their popularity among the casual audience and a new wave of indie developers who are trying to rethink the genre. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

The creator of Pokémon GO has acquired Hoss, which specializes in developing dashboards for third-party APIs. Together they will improve the Lightship platform and the Lightship ARDK. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.