A new review of digital sales from SuperData has arrived. Last month, sales on the market amounted to $10.2 billion. This is 3% lower than the April figure.

Sudden news. Microsoft has abandoned the development of its own stream platform. She closes Mixer. All partners and streamers of the platform are transferred to Facebook Gaming.

South Australian game developers will receive a benefit. Effects and post-production will be 10% cheaper for them.

Sensor Tower bought two mobile apps. The developers of one of them will join the service team.

The hyper casual game has Cool Goal! — more than 50 million installations. How the project was being prepared for release, how many stages it had to go through, — he told in his material for App2Top.ru the developer and publisher of the game is Gismart.

Brawl Stars has become a sensation in the largest gaming market. The game was released in China on June 9 and has now earned over $20 million.

The set of contestants for the Indie Cup Summer‘20 has opened. Until July 27, independent studios and single indie developers from Ukraine and CIS countries can submit their applications.

The Last of Us Part II topped British retail. In the UK, this game is not just the biggest launch of the year. She is also the record holder of physical sales on release among PS4 exclusives.

The genre of idle games grew out of “clickers”. Today it is considered a separate niche. How she lives, in her research for App2Top.ru indie developer Andrey Chuprina told.

The Android release of GameClub took place. This is a service that, for a monthly subscription of $4.99, opens access to a library of 100 old mobile titles (including The Heist, Gravity Hook, Toki Tori, Frozen Synapse and others).

The relationship between Apple and Facebook is not going well. The Apple company does not want a Facebook app with its own library of games to appear in the App Store.

Another tool for JRPG lovers to be. Last week, the Japanese publisher Degica Games announced RPG Maker MZ, a new version of the designer /engine for creating two-dimensional role-playing games.

An online conference for gaming specialists was held last week. We share its results, figures and a link to the reports.

MY.GAMES decided to share its assessment of the Russian market for 2019 in June. It is more cautious than that of Yandex, which previously published a similar study together with Newzoo. However, in general details, both works converge.

Two experienced bizdev/sayzla, after six years of developing a consulting agency for publishing games, decided to publish games themselves. To do this, they turned to another consulting agency — DDM. Now they promise to love and appreciate developers.

June 30th is approaching. After this date, Western games running in the Chinese App Store without local ratification will be outlawed. How Apple will deal with them is still unclear. But there are other details about the current situation.

Apple continues to please with news on the eve of WWDC 2020. Yesterday, without any announcements or warnings, she updated the App Store Connect, the manager for working with iOS applications.

Wanted: art director at AppQuantum, level designer at MYTONA and motion designer at Plarium.

It is generally assumed that hyper-casual projects have a short life span. However, they have been actively assembling installations for much longer than three months. This conclusion was made by developer Dmitry Kuratnik, analyzing the most downloaded hyper casual titles for January-March. He shared this and other observations in the column-research for App2Top.ru .