The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation has recognized a new sport — “interactive football”, equating it to mini-football and beach soccer.

Mobile marketing company AdColony has laid off almost 100 employees due to the introduction of automated (programmatic) advertising sales.

Nikita Zatsepin’s report from BlueStacks. He talked about the types of players who play games on a variety of devices, as well as what the value of these players is.

Removing an extra element on the field is the most popular booster in three-in-a-row games. It is found in almost every similar game,” Playliner reports in its latest research on Match-3.

The Finnish studio Supercell has provided a grant of €250 thousand to the Helsinki Higher School of Art, Design and Architecture of Aalto University.

The University of California at Irvine (USCI) will include in the curriculum a scholarship course on the Overwatch MMO shooter, whose participants will receive $ 2.5 thousand each.

At a time, Russian users on social networks spread an average of 660 rubles.

The Chinese video game industry occupies 25% of the global market and continues to grow. By the end of 2017, the turnover of the Chinese gaming market is projected at $29 billion.

Round table about match-3 games. Representatives of leading game development studios shared their experience in creating match-3 and answered the most popular questions about this genre (how to make the right random, prepare users for the event, create a game economy and build a game balance)

Riot Games studio has announced an increase in prices in the UK for game currency in the popular MOBA League of Legends. The company explained the increase in value by the UK’s exit from the EU.

Retention of 1.7 and 30 days in Android games is higher on average in Russia than in other regions of the world.

Payday 2 MMO shooter returned to the ranking of the 20 most popular PC games in June and immediately took 9th place. Also, the Warface fritupley shooter, which fell out of there in May, has recovered in the chart.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has stated that it will not lose money due to the introduction of game time limits for users of the Honor of Kings mobile MOBA.

The Canadian studio Digital Extremes has published data on the chances of losing all game trophies in the free-play action-MMO Warframe.

Report by Mikael Leinonen from MyGamez Ltd. He talked about how to publish the game in China, as well as what restrictions exist for foreign publishers and studios in China.

The development team from the Nonstop Games studio, which closed a year ago, has opened a new video game company in Singapore — Mighty Bear Games.

We continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert, founder of VALUES VALUE.

Former lead Steam developer Rick Rick Ellis has raised $1.25 million in investments for the Sharkbite Games video game studio he founded.

South Korean customs officials intercepted the delivery of counterfeit stuffed Pokemon toys and other popular characters of Japanese pop culture.