Wanted: Product marketing Manager at Wargaming Nexus, Lead 2D artist at Playgendary and Lead artist at Playnet.

The popularity of smart speakers is still niche in nature. However, the first games have already appeared for them. About the smart speaker market and popular games on it, — for App2Top.ru Anna Vyugina, head of the conversational AI of smart devices from Just AI, told us.

In April, Supercell introduced a battle pass to Clash of Clans. The new mechanics and its high-quality monetization have returned the revenue of the game to the level of 2017.

Nintendo has officially unveiled a lightweight revision of the Switch. It is called Switch Lite and is exceptionally portable.

The time to invest in small teams engaged in mobile development has not gone away. French startup Million Victories has raised $1.4 million to develop its game.

A new strong player has appeared in the hyper-casual games market. It became the SayGames studio founded in the Republic of Belarus. Only from April to June, her games were downloaded about 200 million times.

What does the mobile games market in Vietnam look like today? How promising is he? Why did Supercell remove all its games from its territory? — the answers to these and other questions are in our material.

Last week was unsuccessful for EA. The company’s market capitalization has fallen by almost 10%. The reason is the cold reception of the second season of Apex Legends from the players.

In June, Wargaming announced the formation of a new business unit – Nexus. What exactly does the structure do, we were told by its head Nikolai Nebyshinets.

What problems does a player face today when contacting the support service, — he tells in his material for App2Top.ru Vasily Sabirov, a leading analyst and co-founder of devtodev, together with Anna Bashkirova, head of Customer support outsourcing at devtodev.

The mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, People’s Daily, has prepared a document on the introduction of an age rating for the games in the country. Bloomberg claims that the “independent” initiative has already been supported by the country’s leading publishers — Tencent, NetEase and Perfect World.

Things are not going well in the Apple digital store. Despite the fact that it still generates more than Google Play, the number of installations made from it is falling.

This spring, Dota Auto Chess has become a major phenomenon in the market of free-to-play PvP games. The game, which started as a mod, managed to get not only a native version, but also two clones — from Valve and Riot Games. Together with the game producers, we analyze the reason for the popularity of the game.

The scandal between indie developers and the G2A store – the second in two years — led to the creation of a petition against the trading platform. Its author, the head of No More Robots Mike Rose (Mike Rose) demands that G2A no longer trade keys from indie games.

From the team 101XP.com Ilya Salamatov, Vice President for Business Development, has left. He announced the opening of the publishing label META Publishing.

TabTale and its brand Crazy Labs are investing $500,000 in hyper-casual games from indie developers. The best of them will be selected as part of the Hyper Casual Summer Blitz initiative.

Subway Surfers will soon turn seven years old. Its result during this time is 2.5 billion installations. The CEO of SYBO Games Mathias Nervig (Mathias Gredal Nørvig) told Pocket Gamer about the current metrics of the game and work on it. App2Top.ru I made an extract from the interview.

Twitch users spent 15.2 million hours watching Teamfight Tactics gameplay in the first week since the game’s release. Thanks to this, the novelty of Riot Games can be called not only the most popular autobattler, but also one of the most popular games of recent times.

A new game classification system has appeared in the DataMagic analytics service. When evaluating the market, it is now possible to display games not only by genre, but also by subgenre (in fact, the mechanics used in the game), as well as the setting.