A mobile version of the pocket monster strategy game from The Pokémon Company and Tencent is available from September 22. On the fifth day, the game topped the world download charts in app stores.

Last September, David Polfeldt, former managing director of Ubisoft Massive, released his book about the gaming industry — “The Universe of Video Games. A documentary blockbuster from the developer of The Division, Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations”. Previously, it could only be read in English, but now it is also published in Russian. The Russian-language edition will be available on October 15. We tell you what is hidden under the cover, and share…

Igor Matsanyuk, founder of the IMI Foundation, announced work on a new game. There are few details about the project yet. Apparently, the upcoming title is focused on online battles and visually resembles a series of turn-based strategies Advance Wars.

AppMagic has prepared a report on the mobile market of Argentina for the first half of 2021. In total, the 10 highest-grossing games in the country earned a little less than $4 million during this period. At the same time, almost a third of this amount fell on Garena Free Fire.Garena Free Fire

Sensor Tower analysts in a recent study looked at how things were with mobile engagement in the first half of the year. It turned out that although the most gamers play hyper—casual titles every month, mobile shooters have the largest daily audience.

Last week, the leader of the bestseller chart on Steam was a fresh operation for CS:GO — “Predatory waters”. Also, New World broke into the top three best-selling games again. Pre-orders of two of her publications took second and third place in the ranking.

Downloads of the Belarusian FreePlay studio have reached almost 500 million. Most of it — 290 million — falls on the hyper-casual hit Join Clash. About the history of the studio and its approach to development App2Top.ru I talked to one of the founders and CEO of FreePlay.

Against the background of stricter laws regarding video games, more than 200 companies in China have pledged to independently regulate this area and cooperate with the authorities. They will take a number of measures to combat gambling addiction among teenagers — including using a facial recognition system.According to Reuters, the statement of the Chinese gaming association CGIGC was signed by a total of 213 companies.

Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, spoke about the reasons for the attacks on schools and other educational institutions. In his opinion, this is largely due to video games and the destructive influence of the Internet. Against this background, the Kremlin again raised the issue of restricting the free demonstration of violent content.Alexander Bastrykin

On the night of September 23-24, the third Nintendo Direct this year was held in an online format. While the Internet is in full swing discussing the cast of voice actors for the upcoming cartoon about Magio, we have highlighted the main points of the event.

Diablo II: Resurrected, a remaster of the classic Blizzard game, was released yesterday. In general, critics positively assessed the project. However, it was not without interference in the operation of servers and other technical problems at the start. Because of this, some players have even started requesting refunds.

Analytical companies Newzoo and Apptopia have prepared a report on the mobile gaming market. They estimated that by the end of the year, the market’s revenue will surpass the $90 billion milestone for the first time, with more than half of the amount going to Android stores. Nevertheless, the segment will face a number of problems.

The analytical platform devtodev has written a book about 25 metrics that are used in video games. It is called “Game metrics”. The pages contain a description of the metrics themselves and methods of working with them.

Sergey Klimov, who founded the Charlie Oscar studio, shared his opinion about what indie is. He believes that independent developers sacrifice everything for the sake of their games and in case of failure may be left penniless.

A new deal on the market. ZiMAD announced a collaboration with Disney. The developer has received permission to release additional content based on the cartoons of the film studio for his game Magic Jigsaw Puzzles.

Many users are not satisfied with how the Nintendo eShop search works. They compare it to an “endless garbage dump” in which it is difficult to find something interesting. However, this can be fixed. The Reddit community shared ideas on what should be changed in the store’s game findability. Their proposals were approved by gaming expert Simon Carless.

Last Tuesday, Amazon announced a partnership with the British independent game studio Glowmade. The developers are planning an online cooperative game, but there are no details yet.

Genshin Impact was first released in the Tencent MyApp store. Against this background, there was news that miHoYo has signed a cooperation agreement with the Chinese giant. We can talk not only about various promotional activities, but also about a reduced commission.Genshin Impact

Tim Sweeney said that Apple has blacklisted the Fortnite game in its ecosystem. Battle Royale will stay there until the court hears all appeals in the Epic Games case. It may take about five years.