Apple has released a big report on the dangers of third-party stores and how they will affect the ecosystem of mobile devices. The company hopes to influence the decision on the monopoly case and the payment rules of the App Store.

Three representatives of the TikTok advertising platform spoke at the WN Conference today: Andrey Hristyuk, Ignatiy Bodrikov and Konstantin Inin. They shared tips on creating creatives for their platform and showed a couple of cases with games.

Dmitry Osipov, the leading project manager of Pixonic, was among the participants of the WN Conference today. He spoke about the creation of the War Robots remaster and its impact on the title metrics.

Captain Studio.tv raised $10 million through a fundraising campaign. The team will create new games for streaming platforms and launch the Captain Hub PC application.

The WN Conference in Moscow continues, and today Callum Carmichael, the head of Snap‘s gaming direction, was the first to speak at it. He spoke about “hypersocial” games on Snapchat — what results they achieve and what platform features developers can use.

Domain games.ru came under the management of the company “Sber”. The estimated value of the transaction is $1 million. As the Kommersant newspaper notes, this may be one of the most expensive purchases in the .ru domain zone in recent years.

Jeff Strain, the former founder of ArenaNet and Undead Labs, has announced the opening of a new studio, Possibility Space. She will create an online project and work remotely with developers around the world. The team has already been joined by former employees of companies such as Ubisoft, Valve and Oculus.Possibility Space has already raised funds from the Transcend Fund and the Louisiana Economic Development Fund.

Another speaker at today’s WN Conference in Moscow is Ilya Eremeev, co-founder of The Games Fund venture fund. During his speech, he talked about what types of investors there are and what should be remembered when interacting with them.

The Communications Workers Union of America (CWA) is unhappy with the peace agreement between Activision Blizzard and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Yesterday, the union filed a complaint against the commission.

During the Moscow WN Conference, a round table was held on the topic of advertising creatives. Representatives of Banzai Games, AdSide Media and RoasUp discussed how to work with creatives and what to pay attention to so that they do not harm the games.

Max Postnikov, executive producer of Nexters, spoke at the WN Conference. He shared business tips for beginners in game development and explained why it is not always necessary to chase investments.

In September, the South Korean studio Gravity announced the release of the mobile game Ragnarö k Origin and conducted a closed beta testing. There were a lot of people who wanted to play — the number of pre-registrations reached 400 thousand people. The release date of the MMORPG is still unknown.

Victoria Ustinova, Business Development Manager at Playrix, spoke at the Moscow WN Conference today. She told how the launch of the Gardenscapes and Homescapes games took place in the AppGallery mobile store, which belongs to Huawei.

India has long been considered one of the most promising markets in the gaming industry: not only is the number of active players growing in the country, but also the number of local development companies. Xsolla released its material in VentureBeat and showed the success of the Indian gaming market in numbers.

Last year, Epic Games filed a lawsuit not only against Apple, but also against Google. However, only now Google has decided to put forward counter-claims to the developer. The company said that the creators of Fortnite knowingly violated the agreement with Google Play, and demanded to pay her compensation.

The SideQuest VR application platform has received additional investments. The company will create tools to help developers port games to Oculus Quest.

The Turkish market continues to invest in mobile games. The local company Ludus Venture Studio supported three development studios at once — it invested almost $2 million in them.

The situation around the harassment investigation at Activision Blizzard is getting more complicated. The California Department of Fair Employment and Placement (DFEH) believes that a peace agreement concluded between a gaming company and one of the federal agencies will harm the lawsuit. At the same time, the Department itself is accused of violating professional ethics.The beginning of the conflict

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