The State Duma of the Russian Federation has adopted a law introducing an 18% value-added tax for IT companies operating in Russia from abroad.

An update with 2D features for the Unity engine has been released. The release is experimental in nature. This became known from the official Unity blog.

Apple has published an updated guide for publishing applications. The guide line was released in text format and in the form of comics.

During the upcoming White Nights summer session, three experts from the Russian gaming audience – Leonid Sirotin, Alexander Vashchenko and Sergey Babaev – will talk about the current gaming industry while smoking a hookah.

Apple has named the winners of the annual Apple Design Awards. 12 projects won in the nomination. Of these, 5 are games.

The other day, Apple announced the imminent introduction of advertising in the search in the App Store. We talked with Russian marketing companies about how this innovation can affect the market.

The share of Supercell shares owned by the Japanese company SoftBank was estimated at $9 billion. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to “informed persons”.

How many children are there in Russia, what they play games on, what is the volume of the children’s market, – he told App2Top.ru Alexey Ilyin, head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction.

What does the Finnish gaming industry look like? What are the conditions for investing in games in Finland? Is it possible for foreigners to launch a company in Finland and get support? We talked about this and much more with Oleg Paliy, who is organizing Finnish Game Day together with Nevosoft on June 27 in St. Petersburg.

What unites Tap Titants and Nonstop Knight, how to manage online projects, why Mail.Ru Group is a division for creating experimental games, – in our selection of the main materials of the week.

Ubisoft studio in Casablanca, with 48 employees, ceases its work 18 years after its foundation.

In early access to Steam, Destinations Workshop Tools from Valve appeared. The package allows you to create VR scenes.

MMO accounts for 60% of earnings from the PC gaming market. 89% of MMO revenue comes from the shareware distribution model (free-to-play).

A full-fledged MMO is still a rare guest on mobile platforms. But, most likely, there will be much more of them in the near future. In the meantime, every novelty is an event.

Why there are no AAA projects on Unity, what is the difference between the new subscription plans for the engine and why it is easier to find a job with the Unity certificate,” Clive Downie, marketing director at Unity, told App2Top.

As part of the summer White Nights, which is two and a half weeks away, a round table with game developers will be held. For the best questions to him App2Top.ru will give you two premium tickets.

Today in the selection: Giant Interactive Group will make films, it’s time to start waiting for Injustice 2, the Primal Legends buttler has been announced.

GSN Games will launch a mobile platform where you can play cult games like Tetris and Pac-Man for real money.

CD Projekt Red has agreed with the Polish government to establish a $20 million fund to support regional game developers.