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

The Russian market can generate a solid increase in installations in a short time. A striking example is a new game based on the My Talking Tom franchise. In Russia alone, it collected almost 3 million installations in a day. This is a third of all the starting world installations of the game.

Unreal Engine and Fortnite developers are preparing for a new round of investment attraction. This time we are talking about the amount of $ 750 million. The entire company under the deal is valued at an astronomical $17 billion.

There are many courses on game design on the market. What is their problem? — in the column for App2Top.ru answers Evgeny Sudak, Head of the Game design department at Pixonic.

The Australian video game market for 2019 fell by 10% year-on-year. The decline in indicators affected almost all sectors of the gaming economy, except subscriptions. On the contrary, it jumped by 28%.

A new one-hour interview from App2Top.ru . This time we talked with Ivan Domankov, co-founder and managing partner of Highcore Games. In the center of the conversation is the story of the launch of the midcore mobile game Tanks A Lot.

Talents In Games conducts a small survey. It is dedicated to the reaction of industry participants to the forced quarantine. We invite you to take part in it, share your attitude to the situation.

Daria Pavlyuk — head of Search Optimization studio ZiMAD — in her column for readers App2Top.ru she told how she had built the ASO direction in the company in a new way, as well as how this direction works today.

Wanted: head of the AdQuantum traffic buying team, lead designer/lead designer of match-3 levels at NX Studio, server programmer at Banzai Games and 2d artist at WN Media Group.

The authors of Angry Birds have become another company that decided to borrow the experience of Playrix. She released match-3, which is very close in mechanics and concept to such box office hits as Homescapes and Gardenscapes.

The Grant for the Web Foundation has allocated a sum for the organization The Defold Foundation, which is responsible for the development of the Defold game engine.

Since its worldwide release in November 2018, Brawl Stars has not become a billionaire game. However, the situation may change soon. Yesterday, Yoozoo, Supercell‘s Chinese partner, announced that the game was officially released in China.

Adjust together with Unity Technologies published a study of the hypercausal market. We briefly talk about the main discoveries of the work.

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

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

The Chinese giant NetEase has opened a branch in Japan. The staff of the new studio will be engaged in the games of the new generation.

Five years ago, hyper-casual games were already released. Then one of the first studios in this market was St. Petersburg AYA games. In 2015, she worked with Ketchapp. Today the studio creates hits with Voodoo. Collected 30 million installations in March-May Draw Joust! — one of them. We talked with its founders about how the market and the studio itself have changed over this period. By Artem Merenfeld and Yaroslav Rudakov.

In March, the developer Star Theory Games closed. Before that, he lost his contract with the publisher Take-Two. The studio went bankrupt after the publisher poached half of its staff.

Developers will be able to receive 90% of revenue in MY.GAMES Store. But this only applies to the spending of users, whom the authors of the game brought themselves.