According to Newzoo, the Chinese gaming market has reached a turnover of $37.9 billion. This year, Chinese gamers will spend $10.4 billion more than last year.

At the beginning of the week, there was a rumor that Fortnite would not be published on Google Play. Today, this information was confirmed by Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney. He stated that the game will be available for download from the official Fortnite website.

The Skolkovo Foundation proposes to exempt Russian developers from paying VAT for equipping the workplaces of programmers writing software for export.

The affiliate program, which allowed websites with reviews of iOS applications to receive a percentage of purchases in the App Store, will be closed from October 1.

There is also a game dev in Pakistan. It was in this South Asian country that the Cloudcade studio from San Francisco, which developed a casual simulator Shop Heroes, opened its new division.

According to Newzoo, in two years, the revenue of the American gaming market has increased by $6.8 billion and now stands at $30.4 billion.

NPD Group specialists analyzed the June indicators of the US gaming market. Compared to last year, sales of gaming hardware jumped by 52%, with the inexpensive retro NES Classic console selling best.

A report by Ivan Kozyev from Crazy Panda. The speaker spoke about machine learning algorithms, how to benefit from them, embed them in workflows and use them for marketing analytics using the example of the Crazy Panda experience.

In 2017, the turnover of the Indian market was $890 million dollars – less than one percent of the global total. However, experts say with confidence that India will soon become the new eldorado of the gaming industry.

The plot is one of the main reasons why single titles are played. As a result, a good story today can affect sales. That’s what SuperData thinks.

Now users who purchase questionable products from the Steam Store will receive notifications from the store before the transaction. This is how Valve fights the trade in fake game items.

Japan is the third largest gaming market in the world. Its revenue this year will be $19.2 billion, Newzoo predicts. This is $6.7 billion more than last year.

The recently acquired Microsoft gaming studio Playground Games has hired six experienced developers who previously worked in large companies. All of them will be working on some new PRG — apparently, on Fable IV.

The Abstractism platformer, which could be purchased on Steam, installed Trojans on players’ computers and used them for mining cryptocurrencies. Perhaps it was all some kind of subtle trolling.

Apptopia has published an interesting infographic: in how many days mobile games overcame the bar of 100 million downloads on iOS. Super Mario Run achieved this the fastest.

The digital gaming market is growing. A year earlier, its turnover in June was $7.9 billion. This year, June sales reached $9.1 billion.

In February, the mobile game Little Adventure on the Prairie was ported to PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. The game is frankly of poor quality, but gamers buy it to earn platinum trophies and raise their status in the gaming charts.

Korea ranks fourth in terms of the turnover of the gaming market in the world, although a year ago it was sixth. According to Newzoo estimates, Korean gamers will spend $5.6 billion this year.

Epic Games Licensing Manager Alexey Savchenko explains the meaning of the business developer’s work, talks about the types of investments and gives advice for successful negotiations.