The Tapjoy advertising platform presented a study with detailed information about the favorite applications of American millennials and their interaction with mobile advertising.

The Turkish mobile market is experiencing a real heyday. Local developers receive record investments for the country, and the games created by them become world hits. However, this was not always the case. The Rest of the World edition delved into the history of the Turkish gaming industry and talked about how Istanbul turned into the world capital of casual gaming.

There are permutations in the Gearbox Entertainment manual. Randy Pitchford is no longer the president of the division that develops games. Instead, former technical director Steve Jones (Steve Jones) will become the head of Gearbox Software.

On Wednesday, Twitch was subjected to a hacker attack: among the stolen data was information about an application codenamed Vapour. It has already been dubbed a Steam rival.

The advertising company MoPub has a new owner. In the near future, instead of Twitter, it will belong to the AppLovin technology platform. The latter will give more than a billion dollars for the purchase.

MGVC, the investment arm of the MY.GAMES brand, has announced new investments. As part of the support of teams from the CIS, the company invested in three studios: Tvogue Games, VOX and WideView Games. The total investment amounted to $3 million.As a result of the transactions, the MY.GAMES division received a minority stake in each studio with control options.

The new CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, in light of the success of New World on Steam, said that video games could become the largest entertainment category for the company.

Strategies are the third highest—grossing genre in the American App Store. They account for 17% of the store’s revenue. Such success of the strategy is partly due to the novelties that bring the mechanics of casual games to the genre. This was told in a recent report by the analytical company GameRefinery.

Polygon has published a lot of material about the history of the genre of hidden object games. It tells about the first projects with Hidden Object mechanics, their popularity among the casual audience and a new wave of indie developers who are trying to rethink the genre. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

The creator of Pokémon GO has acquired Hoss, which specializes in developing dashboards for third-party APIs. Together they will improve the Lightship platform and the Lightship ARDK. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

The gaming industry continues to boom deals. Investment banking company Drake Star Partners estimated that $71 billion was spent on investments, public offerings and M&A agreements in the first nine months of 2021. This is 2.1 times more than in the whole of last year.

During August and September, not a single video game was able to get permission to release in China. This may be due to updated (and stricter) licensing rules. Now titles should contain the “right set of values” and take care of the history and culture of China.

This Thursday, October 7, the third “Game Dev HR Awards” will be held, an award for gaming HR specialists. At it, the participants of the event will present and defend their own projects related to the adaptation of employees, their retention, recruitment and many others.

This year Apple has made a soft relaunch of Apple Arcade. In an attempt to attract a new audience, the company has added many already successful casual iOS titles to the library. Gaming expert Simon Carless has figured out the reasons for the change of strategy and Apple’s unwillingness to finance risky exclusives.In the latest issue of his newsletter, Carless published a table of the 22 most popular titles in Apple Arcade at the moment.

Korean NCSOFT has announced the launch of pre-registrations of the box office hit Lineage 2M outside the Asian market. In Russia, the project, which generated about $747 million in South Korea alone, will be launched through a local publisher, Innova.

Wanted: Lead narrative designer at RJ Games, project manager at Nexters and Senior 3D artist at Banzai Games.

Until the opening of the Moscow session of the WN Conference — just nothing. It’s time to talk in detail about the details of the event, and at the same time to focus on new aspects of the program (among them are performances by GEM Capital, Yandex.Games, Snap and even App2Top.ru ).

Microsoft said that since yesterday, October 4, Windows 10 owners can upgrade their system to Windows 11 for free. The new operating system is positioned, among other things, as a gaming one.

As part of the new strategy, Paradox Interactive announced the termination of the development of several titles at once. Such a decision will negatively affect the Swedish publisher’s profit for the third quarter. The cancellation of the projects will cost the company 135 million Swedish kronor ($15.4 million).Crusader Kings 3