The new flight simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator impressed the players with graphics and scale. The price is extremely high requirements for gaming hardware and peripherals. Therefore, analysts believe that the game will lead to an increase in their sales.

After good sales of Persona 4: Golden on Steam, Japanese Sega is going to transfer games to PC much more actively.

Recently, the Adjust marketing company published a guide on how to prepare for working with ads on iOS 14. In the same place, she directly says that the best option is to create a successful pop—up window that motivates users to say “yes” to the question about data tracking.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to switch to remote operation. Today, the “remote” is gradually being abandoned, but the studio of the authors of Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread decided to leave this format for those who managed to like it.

Game content is becoming commonplace for the Netflix audience. Video games have entered the top 3 sources of inspiration for the creators of the streaming giant’s series.

Recently we wrote about the softphone of a new game from Playrix — Farmscapes. As it turned out, it is not the internal asset of the company that is responsible for its development, but the independent Novosibirsk studio Friday’s.

The Cat Quest franchise is a mix of a casual game about kittens and a serious RPG, which brought its developer The Gentlebros 1.3 million downloads and $3.8 million in profit. The founder of the studio shared the story of falls and success in an interview with Tech in Asia.

To use the Oculus VR headset, you now need a Facebook profile. Since October of this year, new users will not be able to create their own Oculus account, and support for old accounts will cease in 2023.

The publisher of Take-Two is going to buy the New York studio Playdots for $ 192 million. The latter develops minimalistic mobile games.

In the Playrix family of casual match-games, replenishment should be expected very soon. The company has launched a new game — Farmscapes within the framework of sotflonch. This is a traditional game for the Scapes series with a plot and meta about decoration, but with one key difference — a new basic mechanics.

Turkey’s economy is going through hard times, but this does not prevent the gaming segment from flourishing. Over the past five years, Turkish startups related to mobile games have received investments of $2.4 billion.

Valve has decided to tighten the rules regarding promotion on Steam. Now game developers can promote only Steam versions of their products on the platform.  Other sites cannot be mentioned.

Chinese industrial giant Tencent has invested in another Western asset. The company became a minority owner of the publisher of hyper-casual games Voodoo. The value of the transaction is unknown. However, it is said that the share was bought at a combined valuation of Voodoo at $1.4 billion.

The war between Epic Games and Apple has entered a new phase. This time, Apple took retaliatory actions. She threatened to delete Epic accounts and block her access to the tools with which the company provides support for Unreal Engine in iOS and Mac.

Google will launch a two-day Mobile Gaming Bootcamp training event about the promotion and development of mobile games tomorrow, August 19. Speakers will talk about the practices of using Google products for gaming: Google Ads, AdMob and Firebase. Belka Games, CarX Technologies, Donut Lab and Appache will also share their insights.

While Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is distributed on PC and PS4, its place on the mobile platform has been taken by a clone called Fall Gang: Knockout. The fake managed to gain 81 thousand downloads before it was removed from the App Store.

Almost 40% of the world’s population are gamers, said the research company DFC Intelligence. Half of the players choose mobile.

The authors of the mobile games Zooba, Tennis Clash and Castle Crush received $120 million as part of the “B” series funding round. The studio will direct money to business development, according to VentureBeat.

Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive has published a financial report for the second quarter (ended June 30). The company still receives its main income from comprehensive global strategies on the PC, but plans to master the mobile market, including with the help of purchased studios.Main results