South Korea has become the first country to legislatively limit the power of Apple and Google over mobile app stores. According to analysts, this could set a precedent.

Another project of Russian developers is conquering the world. The adventure card game Black Book has surpassed the mark of 100 thousand copies sold in 20 days since its release. Four times faster than the Desolate survival at the time, but still not as fast as some other domestic titles.

Neil Druckmann and Evan Wells, presidents of Naughty Dog, shared their opinions on the problem of crunches in the gaming industry. According to them, it is necessary to create comfortable conditions — including not prohibiting “passionate” developers from voluntarily working overtime to improve the project. However, studio bosses were criticized by industry colleagues for their position.

This weekend, the VR horror Phasmophobia once again hit the top ten most popular games on Steam. Its peak online exceeded 60 thousand people. There was more only in the premiere month.

The Chinese authorities have prepared another restriction. Starting in September, local children will be able to spend no more than three hours a week in online games. Moreover, it will be possible to play only at a strictly set time.

Apple has received a warning from the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia. It is connected with the ban on informing users about alternative payment methods in iOS applications. The FAS believes that the company is abusing its position in the market and demands to eliminate the violation by September 30.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of the Yakuza series, is close to leaving SEGA after 32 years at the company. According to media reports, the Japanese game designer’s next job will be NetEase. Thus, the Chinese giant wants to impose competition on Tencent in the Japanese console market.Toshihiro Nagoshi, photo: Jin Wang

Perhaps soon Chinese Internet giants will no longer be able to conduct IPOs in the United States. This initiative was taken by the Chinese authorities. They proposed to close access to the American stock exchange to all companies that have access to a large amount of data from Chinese users.

Now India is one of the fastest growing gaming markets not only in Southeast Asia, but also around the world. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, its turnover may soon reach $ 1 billion.According to analysts, the growth of the Indian video game market was influenced by the following factors:

There are strong changes in the Steam bestseller chart. There are almost no games left from the last time, except for HUMANKIND and Naraka: Bladepoint — the leaders of recent weeks. The Witch Queen supplement for Destiny 2 topped the chart, which recently opened pre-order.

Another mobile developer from the CIS is entering the market of console and PC games. Today at Gamescom, the announcement of the Spine PvP action – the first Nekki project for “big” platforms – took place. This is a cooperative PvP action game from the studio Banzai Games, known for the mobile series Shadow Fight and Vector.

On Steam, you can get a refund for the game if you spend less than two hours in it. Although this policy is used by many gamers, short game developers are not very happy with it. She forced the Russian indie developer Emika Games to leave the industry altogether.

Alexey Savchenko, who previously held the post of licensing manager at Epic Games, wants to make the gaming industry a little better. He announced the imminent launch of a legal and consulting service for developers. He promises to help all deceived developers with the examination of contracts, and to show newcomers what pitfalls there are in relations with large companies.

Tencent always strives to strictly comply with the requirements of the Chinese authorities regarding video games. However, due to the tightened regulation of the technology industry and the actions of a number of state media, the market value of the company has fallen by $400 billion since the beginning of the year. And the development of Tencent’s relations with the authorities may affect the entire gaming industry in China.Tencent Headquarters in Shenzhen

Today Nexters goes on the Nasdaq exchange. A gaming company with Russian roots has completed a merger with the SPACE firm Kismet Acquisition One (Kismet). Its shares under the tickers GDEV and GDEVW will be available to buy from the moment the exchange opens at 16:30 Moscow time.

Netflix has started testing gaming features on its platform. The first mobile titles really appeared on the streaming service. However, so far only subscribers from Poland can play them.Starting from August 26, two titles became available to Polish users — Stranger Things: 1984 and Stranger Things 3. You can play them through the Netflix app for Android.

The App Store can become more democratic. Apple has prepared seven indulgences for developers at once. Among them is the opportunity to tell that in-game items are cheaper to buy on the game’s website, and not in an application downloaded from the store.

How many game advertisers there are on the mobile market, how many creatives per game there are on average per year and how the CPC on Facebook has grown over the year, — the Chinese analytical company SocialPeta told in its latest report. About the most interesting — in our material.

Green Grey has announced a new deal. The company invested $2.5 million in an Estonian studio with Russian roots Infusion Games. Now she is working on three titles at once — including cyberpunk shooter Cyber Wars for mobile.Nikolay Shubin and Sergey Belyaev, Infusion Games