Something is wrong with creating a new version of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. After criticism of the announcement from the players, several postponements of the release and months of silence, the game changes the team.

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

We are publishing a new pool of gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a leading game designer at Daily Magic, a leading product manager at Evrika Games and an art director at Sigma. 

In the UK, they plan to strengthen control over the App Store, Google Play and other mobile stores. The government stated that they do not protect user data well enough, so officials decided to draw up special regulations for stores.

Another gaming company decided that its employees do not have to be in the office all the time. Roblox announced that now, if desired, teams can sometimes work from home. But there are several conditions.

The money was given by the investment company Korea Real Estate Investment and Trust. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Wall Street Journal drew attention to the drop in interest in NFT. As the publication pointed out, with reference to NonFungible data, since September, the average number of transactions with tokens has fallen from 225 thousand to 19 thousand per day.

This decision was made today by the teams of Broken Bird Games, Gatera Studio, Moonatic Studios and Tapioca Games. The developers did not explain the reasons in detail, but, apparently, they could not agree with the organizers of the PlayStation Talents Games Camp.

The main investor was SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment, NetEase and Galaxy Interactive have also invested in the platform.

This was announced by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. He clarified that only employees of accredited IT companies will be able to take out such a mortgage. The maximum loan amount in the million-plus regions will be 18 million rubles, in other regions — 9 million rubles.

Bernard Kim announced on LinkedIn that on May 31, he will become CEO of Match Group, a well-known online dating service Tinder.

A game called Wordle! now owned by Lion Studios Plus. How much the purchase cost is not reported. The terms of the transaction are also unknown.

Destiny developers have stated that every person should have freedom of choice in all spheres of life — this also applies to reproduction. Bungie has promised to support its employees who may be affected by the decision of the US Supreme Court.

Embracer Group announced new purchases, there were rumors of a deal between Square Enix and Sony, and Elon Musk criticized the App Store commission — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

According to Bloomberg, this is the largest daily growth for Rovio since the company went public in 2017. At the moment, one of its shares can be bought for €8,54.

Finnish Rovio has published a financial report for the first quarter of 2022. Despite the general decline in the mobile frituplay market, the creator of Angry Birds managed to achieve a good income. In three months, the company earned €85 million — 26.6% more than a year ago.

Elena Bugakova and Elizaveta Khilkovskaya, producers of AppQuantum, told about the pitfalls of holding events in mobile games in their column.

In 2019, Blizzard began large-scale layoffs in Versailles, cutting 134 people. A year later, the company closed the French office altogether. Against the background of what is happening, a number of former employees decided to appeal the dismissals through the court. As it turned out, successfully.

Officially, the union should start working this weekend. But already 360 people are included in it — this is a little more than a quarter of the country’s developers. Judging by the press release of the union, among them is Mitch McCausland, producer of Featherweight Games studio, but the names and companies of other members are not disclosed.