The situation with the games in China last week became a little more transparent. One of the ministries of the country shared how the process of reviewing games for publication is now structured. Specific bans for games distributed in the country have also been published.

Iraq has followed the example of Nepal and the Indian state of Gujarat: PUBG is now banned in it. However, the country’s parliament went even further and at the same time banned Fortnite.

In early March, disturbing information appeared on the Apple Developer Forum and in the Radug Facebook community. According to it, some iOS developers from Russia have not received their payments from Apple. The topic received a wide response thanks to the media only in mid-April.

Newzoo and StreamLabs revealed the most popular games on Twitch for the first quarter of this year. The leader on the site is still Fortnite. But the competition with the new EA title turned into a loss of views for her.

YouTube Live presents an increasingly serious competition for Twitch. This is the conclusion reached by Newzoo and Streamlab analysts, comparing the performance of the largest streaming platforms for the first quarter of the year.

The role-playing action Pagan Online was released in early access on Steam and Wargaming.net . The developer of the game was Mad Head Games.

Over 10 years, Kickstarter backers have donated a total of $1 billion to gaming projects. Of these, only $236.5 million went to video games (excluding mobile titles).

Sensor Tower analysts estimated the revenue of mobile games received in the first quarter of the year. It grew by 12.3% year-on-year and amounted to $14.6 billion.

The Finnish gaming industry currently employs 3,200 people. A quarter of them work from abroad.

Ubisoft and their game Assassin’s Creed: Unity will not be able to help in the restoration of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. It turned out that the virtual copy of the cathedral from the game is not as accurate as the media and players hoped.

Mobile Brawl Stars earned $200 million in the App Store and Google Play in four months. Thanks to this, Supercell recorded a record first quarter in terms of revenue.

Art Director of Playgendary Alexander Danilov shared with App2Top.ru your opinion about the features of UI development for mobile games.

For a whole week, the full PC version of Assassin’s Creed: Unity will be available for free in the Uplay store. Ubisoft is holding this action “in view of the devastating fire in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.”

Several new vacancies for BioWare have appeared on the Electronic Arts website. The studio needs four system designers who will debug Anthem.

Microsoft officially unveiled the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition console at the Inside Xbox event. It differs from the previous models of the line in the absence of a disk drive.

The geolocation game Let’s Hunt Monsters has been released in China, combining the mechanics of Pokémon GO and Cryptokitties. It has already become the most downloaded freeplay game in the Chinese iOS store, overtaking PUBG and Honor of Kings.

Wall Street banks are showing interest in the game company Playrix created in Russia. Its founders, brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman, have already met with representatives of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp.

Twitch streaming service has launched its first game — Twitch Sings. Harmonix, a music video game developer known for Guitar Hero, participated in its creation.

The next console in the Sony PlayStation line will not be released in 2019, but a number of game studios are already working with it. It promises not just to become more powerful than the PS4, but to offer users a completely new gaming experience.