Another studio decided to switch to a four-day working week. Eidos Montreal has announced that it will no longer work on Fridays. Separately, the developer of the Deus Ex and Tomb Raider series clarified that the new schedule will not affect the working conditions and salaries of employees in any way.Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

The Antimonopoly Authority of the Netherlands was the first in the world to recognize Apple as a monopolist due to the payment rules of the App Store. The regulator demanded that the company change its store policy. Apple has already prepared an appeal.

A small studio Aggro Crab Games acted as a publisher of the indie horror Subway Midnight and attracted attention with an unusual publishing contract. She will not claim a share of the proceeds until the sales of the project reach 10 thousand copies. This decision caused a strong reaction in the community.Subway Midnight

The drains of data on streamers’ earnings upset game designer Cliff Bleszinski. He shared his indignation with his Twitter followers.

Apple has added new tracking metrics to App Analytics, an analytics service for developers. Among other things, it has the ability to find out the number of all downloads of the application, including repeated ones.

The Tapjoy advertising platform presented a study with detailed information about the favorite applications of American millennials and their interaction with mobile advertising.

The Turkish mobile market is experiencing a real heyday. Local developers receive record investments for the country, and the games created by them become world hits. However, this was not always the case. The Rest of the World edition delved into the history of the Turkish gaming industry and talked about how Istanbul turned into the world capital of casual gaming.

There are permutations in the Gearbox Entertainment manual. Randy Pitchford is no longer the president of the division that develops games. Instead, former technical director Steve Jones (Steve Jones) will become the head of Gearbox Software.

On Wednesday, Twitch was subjected to a hacker attack: among the stolen data was information about an application codenamed Vapour. It has already been dubbed a Steam rival.

The advertising company MoPub has a new owner. In the near future, instead of Twitter, it will belong to the AppLovin technology platform. The latter will give more than a billion dollars for the purchase.

MGVC, the investment arm of the MY.GAMES brand, has announced new investments. As part of the support of teams from the CIS, the company invested in three studios: Tvogue Games, VOX and WideView Games. The total investment amounted to $3 million.As a result of the transactions, the MY.GAMES division received a minority stake in each studio with control options.

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.

The gaming industry continues to boom deals. Investment banking company Drake Star Partners estimated that $71 billion was spent on investments, public offerings and M&A agreements in the first nine months of 2021. This is 2.1 times more than in the whole of last year.

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.