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

A website about game marketing has appeared — Good Game Marketing. Its author, the community manager of Apelsin Games Ekaterina Prikhodko, posts useful articles for those who are just learning to promote their games.

Animal Crossing is pulling on the main franchise this spring. Released in March, New Horizons not only became the bestseller of the entire series, but also spurred sales of another hit — mobile Pocket Camp.

And again about investing in Finns. Developer Dazzle Rocks has raised $6.8 million to create an MMO sandbox. The studio was founded by people from Rovio.

The era is gone. Last April, for the first time in eight years, Candy Crush Saga is not the highest-grossing game in the match-3 genre. Gardenscapes became the leader of the niche in monthly revenue.

A book from one of the most famous developers, Sid Meier, will be released in the fall. The creator of the Civilization series will release memoirs, which also promise to become a useful manual on game design.

The circulation of Jedi: Fallen Order has reached 10 million copies. The title was launched in November 2019.

Over the past year, 100 million new users came to Fortnite. Now the audience of the popular battle royale reaches 350 million.

Even early access can turn into a nightmare. Yesterday there was a preliminary release of the Russian game Population Zero on Steam. By the evening, her ratings had slipped to a rating of 17%. What could have gone wrong?

Wanted: art manager at Gaijin Entertainment, senior game designer at ZiMAD and Unity developer at Azur Games.

A new buyer is eyeing Leyou Technologies. China’s Zhejiang Century Huatong Group is fighting for an asset with iDreamSky.

MY.GAMES investigated the state of Russian PC gamers during quarantine related to the pandemic. It turned out that 53% of respondents continue to work/study. Moreover, 41% of respondents find home mode easy.

Founded by immigrants from Russia, the Swedish G5 Games earned $31.6 million in January — March. Its quarterly revenue grew by 2% year-on-year.

What personnel challenges did the CIS gaming companies face during the self—isolation regime, – she told in an interview with App2Top.ru Marina Lopatina, project manager of Talents In Games, a specialist search platform and recruitment agency.

In September last year, MicroProse, the publisher of the early Sid Meier’s Civilization and X—COM, was resurrected. Now the pages of three new titles of the company have been launched on Steam at once.

On April 28, the Frozen Flame game from Dreamside Interactive was released on the Fig crowdfunding platform. She scored the required amount in the first week — $ 50 thousand. This is the first Russian project on the platform and one of the few domestic desktop AA games. We talked about the history of development, personnel hunger, working with investors and, of course, entering Fig with the owner of the studio Sergey Korolev.

Unreal Engine 4.25 became available today. This is the first version of the engine with support for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X systems.

The authors of the Unity engine have acquired the Bolt visual programming tool. It is compatible with GameObject, unlike the similar software of the company itself.

In March, the organizers of E3 announced the cancellation of the exhibition due to the coronavirus. But a lot of game publishers and the media are preparing their own events to replace it. We publish their calendar for June.