Russian parliamentarians continue to attack Apple. Today it became known that Anton Gorelkin, a deputy from the United Russia party, initiated an inspection of the Apple company by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). He believes that domestic teams have difficulty accessing App Store tools.

Last month, many employees of the Lab Zero Games studio left the company after its founder was accused of harassment. Now the developer has fired the rest of the team and has not yet paid them compensation.Animator Jonathan Kim, who worked on Indivisible and Skullgirls, told about the dissolution of the Lab Zero Games team.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games Voodoo has increased its presence in the Turkish market. He invested in Fabrika Games studio. The companies will work together on new games and explore the possibilities of the country’s gaming market.

Now Xbox One remains the only console where you need to pay to play freeplay titles. If the disadvantages for gamers are obvious, then what is the benefit of such a policy for Microsoft and will they be able to abandon it in the future?Kotaku drew attention to this problem after the developers of Rocket League announced the transition to frituplay.

By the end of August App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Microsoft has reported on the success of Microsoft Flight Simulator. The project has already attracted more than 1 million players — this is the best start in the entire 38-year history of the series. However, record numbers will not necessarily correlate with sales.In its blog, the company announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator showed the best start among all games for Xbox Games Pass on PC.

In December 2019, Alawar was headed by its co-founder Sergey Zanin. We talked with him about the early years of the company, about how it grew. They also touched upon the challenges that Alawar faced, discussed the situation around Stargaze and plans for the future.

Apple has problems in Japan. Dozens of local developers have criticized the working conditions with the App Store — and it’s not about the 30% commission. Now the company from Cupertino will also be checked by the Japanese Antimonopoly Commission.The Bloomberg edition summarized the main dissatisfactions of the App Store from local developers.

Nintendo is releasing a new retro console in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. franchise. It’s about the replica Game & Watch.

Polish CD Projekt has prepared a report for the first half of 2020. The company increased revenue by 69% thanks to sales of The Witcher 3 on the Nintendo Switch, GWENT on iOS and demand for Cyberpunk 2077 merch. The release of the latest title is still planned for November.

Advertising companies and application developers took a deep breath. Apple has said it will not introduce new data privacy rules this year.

A new Newzoo study has shown the dynamics of the cloud gaming market. It is assumed that by the end of this year, revenue from such services will reach half a billion dollars. At the same time, this area still has a lot of problems that companies have yet to solve.General data and forecasts

The analytical company DFC Intelligence has calculated how COVID-19 has affected the industry. This time, the focus is on console game publishers. Spoiler: companies have record growth for the fifth year in a row.

Developers from the Thunder Lotus studio, who released the “cozy death game” Spiritfarer, were criticized online and forced to apologize. Users felt that the storyline of one of the characters offends people with disabilities.

Wanted: C++ programmer at Playrix, senior rendering artist at RJ Games and senior level designer at metroidvaniya for consoles at MY.GAMES.

Sensor Tower analyzed the revenue of battle royales on mobile platforms up to August 13, 2020 – the day when Fortnite was removed from the App Store and Google Play. It turned out that the Epic Games game in the world, although it earned over $ 1 billion, was seriously lagging behind competitors in terms of revenue.General data on battle royals

Representatives of Tencent during an online lecture told how the cheat market in China works. The joint actions of the company and the government to combat illegal gaming software do not interfere with the growth of demand. Now this business in the country is estimated at $293 million.Basic market data

The Skillz mobile esports platform will appear on the New York Stock Exchange this fall. The company’s entry into the market will be helped by the Spacefaring Eagle Acquisition, which has previously estimated Skillz at $3.5 billion.

Yesterday, on September 1, a bill was registered and sent to the Chairman of the State Duma proposing to limit the commission of all app stores to 20%. In the comments for App2Top.ru Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov & Pevzner law firm, spoke about the problems of the initiative.