The search giant is adopting Apple’s practice. Google Play also has a preliminary review of new applications. That’s just it doesn’t work well yet.

It seems that the loot boxes have seriously damaged the reputation of Apex Legends and Respawn personally. The studio was criticized for the fact that cosmetics in the new event fell out only from boxes with loot.

Only half of the population is familiar with video games in Russia. According to VTsIOM, 48% of Russians have never played on any devices, and 33% have abandoned this hobby.

Last week, two leading producers — old-timers of the studio – left BioWare at once. One of them was working on Anthem, the other was working on the future Dragon Age 4.

Crytivo is a young American indie publisher founded by a native of Turkmenistan. About the history of the company and what it is ready to offer developers today, we talked with its CEO Alexander Koshelkov.

Yesterday GTP Media announced the winners of the Indie Cup Summer’19 contest. The best PC game was This Land is My Land. The best among mobile games is Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery.

Epic Games opens a division in Cologne, Germany. The new studio will be headed by the founders of Factor 5, developers Turrican and Lair.

The Polish Superhot Team has launched a fund to support indie developers. Two games have already been funded from his funds.

Last month, the American gaming market generated $762 million. This amount is slightly higher than his income in July last year.

Russian MY.GAMES will launch a global distribution platform — MY.GAMES Store. There will be a place for both the company’s own projects and games from third-party developers.

Epic Games got caught selling a repainted item from the Fortnite battle pass. Previously, the company assured that items from the “combat pass” are exclusive and cannot be purchased separately.

This week, Playrix announced the worldwide launch of its new match-3. The novelty is called Wildscapes. It is dedicated to the construction of a zoo. This is the company’s first game in the last two years.

In the story with G2A and the authors of Subnautica, the last one had to apologize. Unknown World admitted that it was in vain that she demanded $ 300 thousand from the store. Although I finally criticized his work anyway.

Wanted: a manager for the purchase of traffic in MY.GAMES, a manager for the development of game projects in Nevosoft and a senior 3D animator in Social Quantum.

Tencent is gradually recovering after the end of the game licensing freeze in China. In the second quarter of this year, 10 mobile games of the Chinese giant entered the market at once.

Yandex was pleased with the update of the AppMetrica analytical system. Now you can use it to display information about how much money this or that advertising campaign has brought.

The authors of Unity are trying to simplify the study of the engine for new users. To this end, they have released two new classroom tools. They will allow you to master computer science and the basics of game design based on Unity.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games has launched a “daughter” on the territory of Ukraine. The new studio is based in Kharkiv and is built on the basis of the local h8games team.

The additional US tax on a number of Chinese goods, which caused a stir in the console market, has been postponed until December 15. Initially, it was supposed to come into force on September 1.