LoopMe and IDC presented a joint study on the prospects of mobile gaming after the end of the pandemic. Companies have concluded that record activity will fall by a quarter in the next couple of years. Mobile market revenue growth is also expected to slow significantly after a record 2020.The study is based on a survey that involved 3,850 smartphone users from the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Brazil and Singapore.

The “White Nights” are returning to Northern Venice. WN Media Group shared details of the upcoming summer session of WN St. Petersburg. It will be held offline (but there will also be an online part on the WN Hub). There will also be an exhibition of developers, a pre-party and a big party at the Flying Dutchman.

Alexandra Kurdyumova, Senior Partner of the VERSUS.legal law firm, said App2Top.ru about a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Capcom related to the illegal use of other people’s photos in their games. We discussed the legal specifics of the case, the statute of limitations and the available evidence base.Note: You can read more about designer Judy Juracek’s lawsuit against Capcom in our material.

Wanted: developer of a playable advertisement in APPSULOVE, designer of a meta-game in Targem Games and a leading artist in Playrix.

Facebook is often used to advertise mobile games. However, this social network has its own peculiarities when it comes to promoting PC titles. The publisher of Hooded Horse shared his experience, also talking about the difficulties and advantages of Reddit as an advertising platform for hardcore genre games.Terra Invicta

Gaijin Entertainment will now conduct pairs at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). The authors of War Thunder have launched a master’s program at the university, where they will tell you how to make games. But there is one caveat — the requirements for applicants came out quite tough.

After the release of iOS 14.5, in which Apple turned off IDFA by default, advertisers began to redistribute their advertising budgets in favor of Google Play.

tinyBuild shared the report for fiscal year 2020 (ended December 31). The company earned $37 million, and its profit almost doubled in annual terms. At the same time, the bulk of the revenue came from previously released games.Key data from the report

The government is preparing a new tax for foreign IT companies. It will amount to 3% of the income they receive from Russian users. The new law will also affect app stores.

China has very strict certification rules, as the authors of Cyberpunk 2077 were well aware of. It turned out that the developers of the game marked with the tag “Winnie the Pooh” all the controversial content that should be removed before the release in China. The problem is that this character has been banned in the country since 2017.

At the beginning of the year, users of the Royal Games browser games portal, which belongs to King, faced the inability to withdraw their money from the site. This went on for several months. It turned out that the reason was an investigation by PayPal and the problem of the so-called “skill-gaming”.What is Royal Games?

Part of the changes in Apple’s guidelines concerns the process of submitting applications to the App Store. Now developers have more opportunities to appeal against the rejection of their applications. In particular, you can directly indicate why the company’s decision could be biased.Apple spoke in detail about the changes after the start of the WWDC conference, at which, among other things, the announcement of iOS 15 took place.

Yesterday Apple announced iOS 15. After its release, the SKAdNetwork framework will send data not only to advertising networks, but also to advertisers.

Over the weekend, Capcom faced a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from designer Judy Juracek. She accused the company of illegally using her photos in games. Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov&Pevzner law Firm, said App2Top.ru about the specifics of such lawsuits, as well as whether Capcom could have committed intentional plagiarism.Evgeny Obedkov, App2Top.ru : The designer demands up to $12 million in compensation and payments of up to $25 thousand for each photo used.

Yesterday Apple made a number of changes to the rules for publishing applications on the App Store (App Store Review Guidelines). One of the most significant changes concerns the mislids. Their use when promoting an application even outside the App Store can now threaten to delete the developer’s account.

A group of Chinese companies led by the Internet giant Sina, which owns the microblogging service Weibo, plan to buy a stake in the studio Yoozoo Games (League of Angels). The estimated volume of the transaction is $447 million.

Two months ago – in April 2021 – Nekki launched the Cascadeur character animation tool for early access. This time was enough for the engine to increase the audience of users from 70 thousand to 80 thousand people.

Top managers of CD PROJEKT demanded to vacate their positions. The British firm Abri Advisors, which owns an unspecified stake in the Polish publisher, sent a letter to its board of directors. In it, she delivered an ultimatum: either CEO Adam Kicinski and his deputy Marcin Ivinsky leave, or Abri Advisors will raise the issue of removing the entire board of directors.

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.