By the end of June App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

An AAA title for virtual reality helmets will appear in the Rockstar portfolio. Perhaps the company was inspired by the success of the VR reissue of L.A. Noire, as well as the fame of Half-Life: Alyx.

The weekly top of the best-selling Steam games was headed by Sea of Thieves. The title has already become the leader of the rating last month.

Since the beginning of July, the App Store does not accept games that have not received a local license (ISBN) for publication in China. What will happen to games that do not have permission, but which are present in the store, is still unclear. Against this background, 1571 games were “withdrawn” from the Chinese App Store only for July 1. Another 1805 projects were removed from the shelves today.

Times Kongregate.com they leave. The gaming platform blocks the launch of new web games, closes some of its forums and fires employees en masse.

Tencent is preparing to launch the Trovo streaming platform. This is a service similar to Twitch, but focused on mobile, Bloomberg reports.

The new blockbuster Naughty Dog for the opening weekend (June 19-21) sold 4 million copies. According to Sony, no exclusive PlayStation 4 game has ever been sold out at the start at such a rate.

Yesterday, on June 25, there was a closed presentation of the next most anticipated game of the year — Cyberpunk 2077. We tell you what CD Projekt RED showed and how the media reacted.

Israeli Playtika will temporarily remove its employees and their family members from Belarus. The company denies the connection of these plans with the difficult political situation in the country.

Starting in July, Apple will begin to exclude games from the Chinese App Store that have not previously been officially licensed in China.

MAU Epic Games Store jumped to 61 million people. The online peak of 13 million users was also recorded. All this is thanks to the distribution of GTA V.

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.