The subscription model is becoming increasingly important for Microsoft. It will determine the launch of the Xbox Series X, said Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer).

The Russian authorities are thinking about the abolition of zero VAT on the sale of software. This is how they want to compensate for the reduction in income tax for IT companies proposed by Vladimir Putin.

HTML5 Game Developer Day will be held in two weeks. This is an event for creating HTML5 games. Among the speakers are representatives of Cocos, Snap, Facebook, SoftGames, CoolGames, Odnoklassniki and many other companies.

On the Defold engine, you can now make games for Switch. The Defold Foundation announced the integration with the Nintendo console.

Marketing firm Mintegral is preparing a Playturbo platform for game developers. It will allow you to create interactive advertising banners.

Starting in July, Apple will begin to exclude games from the Chinese App Store that have not previously been officially licensed in China.

MAU Epic Games Store jumped to 61 million people. The online peak of 13 million users was also recorded. All this is thanks to the distribution of GTA V.

Facebook has abandoned another VR headset. Oculus will cease support and production of Oculus Go.

Training resource Unity has become free forever. The authors of the engine gave free access to 350 hours of Unity Learn Premium content in connection with the coronavirus.

Some good news. Vladimir Putin announced serious tax and insurance breaks for Russian IT companies. According to him, now the conditions will be even better than in Ireland.

How many games use advertising for monetization, how to correctly estimate the potential daily revenue from advertising, how to properly set up advertising monetization in your game? — answers these and many other questions in his column for App2Top.ru Orly Tsesis, Publishing Solutions Manager Facebook Audience Network.

Wanted: programmer at Playrix, VFX artist at DataVision Studio and ASO lead at ZiMAD.

A number of studios at one point broke off relations with the cult game designer Chris Avellone. The latter is accused of sexual harassment.

A new week, a new video. This time about the history of the game Ailment. The game has an exceptional one. Its author was engaged exclusively in CG before development, he did not know programming. That didn’t stop him. In the process, he mastered C# and the Unity engine from scratch. In the end, everything worked out. Ailment was noticed by Apple, and Google called it one of the best indie releases of last year.

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

A new review of digital sales from SuperData has arrived. Last month, sales on the market amounted to $10.2 billion. This is 3% lower than the April figure.

Sudden news. Microsoft has abandoned the development of its own stream platform. She closes Mixer. All partners and streamers of the platform are transferred to Facebook Gaming.

South Australian game developers will receive a benefit. Effects and post-production will be 10% cheaper for them.

Sensor Tower bought two mobile apps. The developers of one of them will join the service team.