Bohemia Interactive has one less studio. The developer DayZ liquidated the office in Bratislava (the capital of Slovakia).

App Annie, one of the leading Western analytical platforms, is cutting staff due to the “financial impact caused by the spread of the coronavirus.”

To support the community of developers in conditions of self-isolation, the devtodev analytical platform decided to make access to all its educational courses temporarily free.

Part of this amount was collected with the help of Magic Jigsaw Puzzles players.

Marcin Iwiński, one of the founders of the Polish CD Projekt, became a dollar billionaire. He is the holder of the largest number of shares of the company, and now his entire package is worth $ 1.05 billion.

Maxim Kordonets — Head of Community & Support of Belka Games studio — in his column for readers App2Top.ru he shared his experience of how he rebuilt the community and support department in a mobile company in a year.

Due to the coronavirus, SuperData has adjusted its forecast for the augmented reality (XR) market. According to new data, the XR industry will earn $6.3 billion this year. This is less than expected.

We publish the schedule of lectures on the WN Hub digital platform for Tuesday, April 28. Recall that the platform works from April 22 to April 30 in open mode.

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

Zynga has introduced a new type of monetization in Words With Friends. A link to the Amazon Prime service has appeared in the word game. His subscribers will be offered free exclusive rewards in the title.

In the search results of the App Store, you can again advertise games from Russian publishers. Apple has returned Russia to the list of countries with access to Search Ads.

Mobile runner Minion Rush will soon reach 1 billion downloads. This was announced by the publisher of the title Gameloft in honor of the 20th anniversary of the company.

Tencent has become the largest player in the streaming market in China. This happened thanks to a new M&A deal. The Chinese giant acquired Huya shares for $262.6 million and became its controlling owner.

How big is the demand in the domestic outsourcing market, is there competition in it, how has the coronavirus affected it? We talked about this and more with the heads of Owl Studio, SunStrike Studio and GD Forge.

The work of the digital platform for game dev WN Hub continues. We are sharing the schedule of online lectures for Monday, April 27.

The American Tilting Point has become the publisher of the Nova Empire: Space Commander mobile strategy. It was launched in China by GameBear publisher. Tilting Point will lead the project outside the Celestial Empire.

Fortnite hosted an unusual event with the participation of celebrity rapper Travis Scott. That night he gave a virtual concert, which was attended by 12.3 million players. This is a new peak online record for Fortnite.

A new fund has appeared. It is called Transcend Fund and is ready to invest in gaming companies. To do this, he raised $50 million.

Playrix has announced plans to support its employees in quarantine. She will make a one-time payment to all employees in the amount of 50 thousand rubles ($ 650).