Today, on April 22, the WN Hub was released. It is a platform for developers, marketers and game publishers. We tell you how it looks and works.

Android users have finally got a mobile Fortnite. The game was released on Google Play a year and a half after its release on PC. Before that, Epic Games flatly refused to release a popular title in this store. And even now the company is not too happy.

March was a great month for the American video game market. Last month, players in the United States spent $1.59 billion. This is a record of the last 12 years.

After selling his Star Trek Timelines title, Disruptor Beam developer started from scratch. The startup took the name Beamable and released technology for game services.

Square Enix shipped 3.5 million copies of Final Fantasy VII Remake in the first three days of sales. It is not reported how many of them were for digital copies sold, and how many were for retail deliveries.

Wanted: a leading 2D artist at FunPlus, a tester at devtodev and an analyst at Highcore Games.

The marketing company Adjust has published a benchmark for mobile applications. Among the main conclusions: a decrease in the growth rate of downloads for hyper-casual games and a significant drop in organic content from stores in the market as a whole.

The App Store will appear in 20 more countries. Eight of them are located in Africa, including Libya, Morocco and Congo. The store will also be launched in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Maldives. As a result, it will cover 175 states.

This year Wargaming will celebrate 10 years of World of Tanks. The company reported that 160 million players had registered in the game during the operation.

Publishers are leaving GeForce Now again. Nvidia‘s service is about to lose access to Xbox Game Studios, Warner Bros., Codemasters and Klei Entertainment titles.

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

Facebook Gaming has a mobile version. Today, a new Facebook app has been released on Google Play, allowing you to play instant games and stream.

The details of the lecture component of the WN Hub became known. More than 40 presentations dedicated to the development, publication and promotion of games will take place on the digital platform for game dev from April 22 to 30.

ZiMAD has launched a new division. Now the company is focused not only on the development of its projects, but also on the purchase of third-party ones. We talked with Galina Zueva, the company’s chief operating officer, about what games ZiMAD is engaged in, what it is and why it decided to take up investing.

The analytical service from Yandex has received a number of improvements. It has a more convenient sorting of traffic sources, including by retention.

The GRIS platformer sold 1 million copies in a little more than a year. The developers from the Spanish Nomada Studio told about it on Twitter, thanking the players and publisher Devolver Digital.

What is going on in the hyper-casual games market? How difficult is it to launch your own studio in this niche? Is viral success possible? Under what conditions do publishers work with developers of hyper-casual games today? We talked about this and not only in the format of a video interview with Alexander Filatov, co-founder of Hypernova Games.

The top of the best-selling games on Steam for the past week has been published. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord once again topped the chart. Fallout 76, which has just been released in the store, has the fifth place.

Publisher Voodoo has changed the approach to choosing games for publication. Recently, it has implemented a “more flexible” KPI measurement system for projects. And thanks to this, he has released several new hits, including Woodturning.