The trade war between China and the United States is gaining momentum. The next victim may be TikTok, one of the most popular mobile apps in America.

What the game development market in France looks like today, — the French Video Game Trade Association together with IDATE DigiWorld told in its annual study.

The Colorado-based Backflip Studios, founded in 2009, will be closed. Hasbro Corporation, which owns it, decided so.

Epic Games has started implementing a plan to launch its own Android store. The company has changed the name of the Android application with which Fortnite is installed.

What the gaming markets of China, Japan and South Korea look like today, — the Finnish gaming organization Neogames told.

Yesterday, October 22, GameGroove Capital fund was presented in Kiev. He will invest in gaming startups in the CIS. The total amount of investments will reach $6 million per year.

It turns out that until October 21, Tencent did not formally own the consortium that had previously acquired Supercell. Now the situation has changed.

Mobile Empires & Puzzles has earned half a billion dollars in two years. Its installations for the same time amounted to 41 million. Most of them fell on Russia.

Mobile operators are now launching their gaming subscription services as well. The creation of such a platform was announced by the Italian provider TIM. His partner in the project is Gameloft.

The British Commissioner for Children’s Rights has called for a ban on the sale of any items in games, with the exception of cosmetics. And also recognize loot boxes as a form of gambling and regulate them accordingly.

Last week, Sensor Tower published the top 10 most downloaded hyper-casual games in the world in September. A third of the list is published by Belarusian teams.

Two weeks ago, Asphalt 9: Legends was released on the Nintendo Switch. Its installations in the first week reached 1 million.

Almost a year ago, the Satisfaction simulator became an exclusive Epic Games Store. Now the developers of Coffee Stain Studios have stated that since then they have felt great financial independence.

French publisher Anuman Interactive will change its name to Microïds. This is the name of a popular quest developer — more famous than its publisher.

The THQ Nordic division has opened in Tokyo. This is the second local distributor created by this publisher.

Saber Interactive Studio, partially based in Russia, has acquired a Portuguese developer. He will be engaged in two unannounced projects for PC and consoles.

Unity Technologies will change the cost of Unity Pro and Unity Plus subscriptions for the first time. The changes will take effect on January 1, 2020.

After Fortnite was turned off for two days, its income in the App Store grew seriously. A day after the new update “Chapter 2”, she earned 141% more on iOS than before it.

The Russian studio Owlcat Games has announced its independence. Previously, it was among the internal studios of MY.GAMES, a gaming brand Mail.Ru Group.