During August and September, not a single video game was able to get permission to release in China. This may be due to updated (and stricter) licensing rules. Now titles should contain the “right set of values” and take care of the history and culture of China.

This Thursday, October 7, the third “Game Dev HR Awards” will be held, an award for gaming HR specialists. At it, the participants of the event will present and defend their own projects related to the adaptation of employees, their retention, recruitment and many others.

This year Apple has made a soft relaunch of Apple Arcade. In an attempt to attract a new audience, the company has added many already successful casual iOS titles to the library. Gaming expert Simon Carless has figured out the reasons for the change of strategy and Apple’s unwillingness to finance risky exclusives.In the latest issue of his newsletter, Carless published a table of the 22 most popular titles in Apple Arcade at the moment.

Korean NCSOFT has announced the launch of pre-registrations of the box office hit Lineage 2M outside the Asian market. In Russia, the project, which generated about $747 million in South Korea alone, will be launched through a local publisher, Innova.

Wanted: Lead narrative designer at RJ Games, project manager at Nexters and Senior 3D artist at Banzai Games.

Until the opening of the Moscow session of the WN Conference — just nothing. It’s time to talk in detail about the details of the event, and at the same time to focus on new aspects of the program (among them are performances by GEM Capital, Yandex.Games, Snap and even App2Top.ru ).

Microsoft said that since yesterday, October 4, Windows 10 owners can upgrade their system to Windows 11 for free. The new operating system is positioned, among other things, as a gaming one.

As part of the new strategy, Paradox Interactive announced the termination of the development of several titles at once. Such a decision will negatively affect the Swedish publisher’s profit for the third quarter. The cancellation of the projects will cost the company 135 million Swedish kronor ($15.4 million).Crusader Kings 3

The Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis, which developed the NFT game Axie Infinity, conducted a Series B financing round. The company received $ 150 million in investments from investors, and its market capitalization was estimated at $ 3 billion.

Who owns in—game items and how international legislation relates to them, – says in his column for App2Top.ru Alexey Vikharev, lawyer at VERSUS.legal.

The Xbox ranks may be replenished with new companies. The network started talking that Microsoft is eyeing the purchase of three more game studios: Crystal Dynamics, IO Interactive and Avalanche Studios. All of them are currently working on projects for the corporation.

The founder of the indie studio UnifiQ Games analyzed the Kickstarter campaign of his game Operation Outsmart. It turned out to be a complete failure — in two weeks it was possible to collect barely 10% of the desired amount. However, the developer did not despair and decided to tell about the main mistakes he made during crowdfunding.Operation Outsmart

It seems that Facebook has asked developers to make a number of changes to the VR version of Resident Evil 4 for Oculus Quest 2. The authors have removed some phrases and jokes from the dialogues that they considered sexist and obscene. Also, the final scene completely disappeared from the game. Fans called this approach censorship.

The creator of streaming tools StreamElements has attracted $ 100 million in investments and spent part of the funds on the acquisition of Paragon. The company specializes in promoting YouTube channels and creating digital creatives.

The best-selling game of last week on Steam was New World. The Amazon Games project is located on four lines in the chart at once: on the first three and fifth.

What happens in game marketing in the Western market is generally known. The situation with the promotion of games in China is much less covered. This is what we talked about with Maxim Laba, the regional director of the Nativex agency, which specializes in UA in its native China.

Epic Games intends to make the Internet and online games safer for children. To do this, the company has opened free access to its Kids Web Services (KWS) service. With its help, parents can confirm their identity and consent to the processing of children’s personal data.Epic Games announced this together with its company SuperAwesome.

1939 Games, known as the creator of the collectible card game KARDS, is porting its project to mobile devices. The investors of the developers were companies from South Korea and Northern Europe.

By the end of September App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.