Cafe Bazaar is the largest mobile Android store in Iran. The other day, representatives of the platform spoke at the international digital technology exhibition in China, where they talked about their business indicators for 2020. We share the main ones.

Sensor Tower announced the purchase of the analytical marketing platform Pathmatics, which was the first transaction of its kind for the company. Its amount is disclosed. It is known that Sensor Tower will now be able to provide its users with more tools and sources for mobile analytics.Pathmatics confirmed this information on May 24 on its official website.

The last witness in the trial between Epic Games and Apple was Tim Cook. He stayed in the courtroom for at least two hours, the last minutes of which he had to spend in a tense debate with the judge. Among other things, she was interested in why iOS users cannot buy in-game items outside the App Store.

Some players in Apex Legends felt cheated because of the high cost of cosmetic items. Now developers are asking for $18 for one “legend”, which, according to users, is too much. Respawn representatives tried to explain their pricing policy and said that creating “cosmetics” is not cheap.During a series of questions and answers with the developers of Apex Legends on Reddit, one of the users clarified: “Given the growth of the game, can we expect…

The Indian version of PUBG Mobile does not even have a release date yet, and local politicians are again calling for the game to be banned. The reason is the close connection of developers with Tencent and the threat to the security of India.

IIDEA (the Italian Association of Interactive Digital Entertainment) has prepared a report on the state of the Italian gaming industry by the end of 2020. The total market turnover exceeded €2 billion. Despite the growth of the mobile sector, console games bring the main revenue, while the PC remains the most popular platform for development.The IIDEA study is based on an online survey that was conducted from February 24 to April 1, 2021.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition failed to hold a leading position in the list of the best-selling Steam games in the second week of sales. After the release of the PC version of Days Gone, the sci-fi trilogy dropped to second place.

On May 19, Perfect New World, a new MMORPG from Perfect World Entertainment, was released in China. In just one day, the revenue of the game on mobile devices exceeded $ 400 thousand. At the same time, the game will also be available on PC and consoles.

Yesterday, the bank “Sber” held its first technical conference for SmartDev developers. During it, the CEO of the gaming direction, Alice Chumachenko, together with the operating director, Alexander Mikheev, told why the bank needs “Sberbank Games” and how they will work.

A few days ago, Deputy Alexander Khinshtein proposed to oblige large IT companies to open their representative offices in Russia. Now this bill concerning foreign companies with a daily audience of 500 thousand Russian users has been officially submitted to the State Duma. The preliminary review date is June 1.Khinstein told Interfax about this today.

Yesterday, the award ceremony for the winners of the WN Dev Contest took place — a large-scale competition for European developers, which was organized by the WN Conference with the active support of Unreal Engine and the Reboot Develop conference. We tell you about all the winners. Drake’s Survival Odds: Survive and the adventure game Tchia received the most awards.

The confrontation between Apple and Microsoft is gaining momentum. The other day, a company from Cupertino accused Microsoft of taking advantage of the situation around its trial with Epic Games and using Fortnite authors as a “screen.”

Mobile publisher and developer Jam City will become a public company. The SPAC firm DPCM Capital will help him in this. Thanks to the deal, the capitalization of the authors of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery will reach $ 1.2 billion.

Such data was shared by Michael Schmid, head of the gaming business development department in the App Store. He declined to give the exact amount, saying it would be “inappropriate.”

Apple actively helped with the promotion of Fortnite in the App Store, said Michael Schmid, head of the gaming business development department at the App Store. It is not known how much the company has spent on marketing the title for the entire time of its existence, but from October 2019 to August 2020, it invested $ 1 million. Lauren Moskowitz, a lawyer at Epic Games, described it as a “bargain.”

Apple‘s lawyers have asked the court to dismiss one of the ten main points in the Epic Games lawsuit. In it, the authors of Fortnite claim that the promotion of the game on iOS is necessary for effective business development.

During the meeting, Craig Federighi said that there are “unacceptably many” malware on Mac computers. This is due to the openness of their operating system — Mac users can download applications not only from the App Store.

Developers from People Can Fly reported that over 3.5 million people played Outriders in the first month after the release. Square Enix was pleased with the results of the cooperative shooter and now considers it for itself as a new potential franchise.Along with the data on the number of unique players, People Can Fly shared other statistics.

Embracer Group has published a detailed report for the fiscal year that ended on March 31. The Swedish holding company announced the success of Valheim (its circulation reached almost 7 million copies) and its other games, revenue and profit growth, as well as ambitious plans for new M&A deals.Valheim