Facebook has abandoned another VR headset. Oculus will cease support and production of Oculus Go.

Some good news. Vladimir Putin announced serious tax and insurance breaks for Russian IT companies. According to him, now the conditions will be even better than in Ireland.

A number of studios at one point broke off relations with the cult game designer Chris Avellone. The latter is accused of sexual harassment.

A new week, a new video. This time about the history of the game Ailment. The game has an exceptional one. Its author was engaged exclusively in CG before development, he did not know programming. That didn’t stop him. In the process, he mastered C# and the Unity engine from scratch. In the end, everything worked out. Ailment was noticed by Apple, and Google called it one of the best indie releases of last year.

Sudden news. Microsoft has abandoned the development of its own stream platform. She closes Mixer. All partners and streamers of the platform are transferred to Facebook Gaming.

The Last of Us Part II topped British retail. In the UK, this game is not just the biggest launch of the year. She is also the record holder of physical sales on release among PS4 exclusives.

Two experienced bizdev/sayzla, after six years of developing a consulting agency for publishing games, decided to publish games themselves. To do this, they turned to another consulting agency — DDM. Now they promise to love and appreciate developers.

June 30th is approaching. After this date, Western games running in the Chinese App Store without local ratification will be outlawed. How Apple will deal with them is still unclear. But there are other details about the current situation.

The Russian market can generate a solid increase in installations in a short time. A striking example is a new game based on the My Talking Tom franchise. In Russia alone, it collected almost 3 million installations in a day. This is a third of all the starting world installations of the game.

The Australian video game market for 2019 fell by 10% year-on-year. The decline in indicators affected almost all sectors of the gaming economy, except subscriptions. On the contrary, it jumped by 28%.

A new one-hour interview from App2Top.ru . This time we talked with Ivan Domankov, co-founder and managing partner of Highcore Games. In the center of the conversation is the story of the launch of the midcore mobile game Tanks A Lot.

Talents In Games conducts a small survey. It is dedicated to the reaction of industry participants to the forced quarantine. We invite you to take part in it, share your attitude to the situation.

The authors of Angry Birds have become another company that decided to borrow the experience of Playrix. She released match-3, which is very close in mechanics and concept to such box office hits as Homescapes and Gardenscapes.

Since its worldwide release in November 2018, Brawl Stars has not become a billionaire game. However, the situation may change soon. Yesterday, Yoozoo, Supercell‘s Chinese partner, announced that the game was officially released in China.

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.

The Chinese giant NetEase has opened a branch in Japan. The staff of the new studio will be engaged in the games of the new generation.

Five years ago, hyper-casual games were already released. Then one of the first studios in this market was St. Petersburg AYA games. In 2015, she worked with Ketchapp. Today the studio creates hits with Voodoo. Collected 30 million installations in March-May Draw Joust! — one of them. We talked with its founders about how the market and the studio itself have changed over this period. By Artem Merenfeld and Yaroslav Rudakov.

In March, the developer Star Theory Games closed. Before that, he lost his contract with the publisher Take-Two. The studio went bankrupt after the publisher poached half of its staff.

The Black Lives Matter movement affected the schedule of gaming events in June. Companies are massively canceling and rescheduling events as a sign of support for the protests in the United States.