Due to the spread of the coronavirus, WN Media Group decided not to hold the annual CEO Summit in Spain. At the same time, the company announced the imminent release of a digital service for business communication in the gaming industry – WN Hub.

On March 10, Activision Blizzard launched a free battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone. During the first day, its audience exceeded 6 million players.

Custom Modification Service mod.io raised $1 million in the seed round. The money will be used for its development.

In Romania, there was a merger of two developers. A larger company, Amber, acquired the indie studio Scorpius Games.

A third of the games with monetization available in the Chinese App Store are at risk. They are not ratified by the local regulator, and therefore can be removed by Apple.

Another cancellation due to coronavirus. Apple has abandoned the planned presentation of new smartphones. This is reported by Cult of Mac with reference to a source in the company.

Isometric role-playing games are still successfully gaining funds on Kickstarter. In February-March, a new classic RPG in the Pathfinder universe attracted a solid $2.05 million for the service.

E3 may not take place this year. As stated by a number of media outlets, including Bloomberg, the organizer of the ESA event is going to announce its cancellation.

Activision Blizzard publisher launched Call of Duty: Warzone today. This is a free cross-platform battle royale. The company announced its new product just a day before the launch of the servers.

The GeForce Now cloud service started unsuccessfully. In the first month, Activision Blizzard and Bethesda left him. But now other major publishers are campaigning for the platform: Epic Games and Ubisoft.

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

On March 6, the Yes, Your Grace simulator was released on Steam. Over the weekend, the game earned $ 600 thousand. The publisher of No More Robots named possible reasons for this success.

Loot boxes remain an urgent topic for legislators. In Australia, it is proposed to prohibit the sale of all games with this mechanic to persons under 18 years of age. There are also plans to start checking the age of users online.

More than 1 million copies of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem have been sold on Steam. Recall that this indie-diabloid came out of early access on February 13.

The Steam gaming platform relies on personalized news feeds. Valve has introduced new functionality for the store. It allows you to track news on interesting games.

Continuation of the story with the Wargaming lawsuit against its former employees. Legal proceedings have begun in Cyprus. The defendant, an indie developer of the Blitz Team, may be banned from using his own name. From the lawsuit, Apple removed his game in European stores. 

Which sources and sites should be monitored if you are developing hyper—casual games, – told in the material for App2Top.ru Anatoly Maksimov, developer and one of the founders of the Telegram channel HYPER CASUAL.

The other day Unity published a Mobile Game Monetization Report. In it, the company spoke about the state of affairs with the monetization of mobile games at the end of 2019. We have highlighted the main points of the study.

In the second or third quarter, the industry is waiting for the transfer of a large number of releases. The reason is that many companies rely on Chinese outsourcing, which now cannot meet the existing demand due to the coronavirus.