The Chinese colossus of Tencent is on the way to a new takeover. On July 10, exclusive negotiations between Tencent and Hong Kong-based Leyou Technologies began. The market value of the latter previously reached $1.4 billion.

Yesterday, the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University announced the beginning of a partnership with Epic Games. It is stated that both sides will work together in scientific, educational and business areas. Details about cooperation specifically for App2Top.ru Alexey Savchenko, licensing manager of Epic Games, told us.

A bad day for iOS developers. Many mobile applications on this platform did not work today. It’s all the fault of a bug in the Facebook SDK. It led to constant “crashes” of those programs in which the SDK was installed.

On Thursday, Sony became a minority owner of Epic Games. A Japanese company bought 1.4% of the Unreal Engine developer for a quarter of a billion dollars. Based on the deal, the market value of the entire Epic Games is now an astronomical $17.86 billion.

Against the background of the pandemic and mass self-isolation, mobile games were in great demand. How actively they were downloaded and how much they spent on them, — the analytical company App Annie told in the latest report.

Metacritic decided to fight the review-bombing after all. Now it is impossible to leave a review about the game on the site if 48 hours have not passed since its release.

How was the second quarter for the mobile games market in Russia, — the analytical company App Annie told in a new report.

Top managers of Electronic Arts did not deserve such high salaries. Representatives of CtW Investment Group, an organization that had previously made the same claims to Activision management, are sure of this.

On the morning of July 8, many Chinese game developers received a letter from Apple. It says: if the application does not have permission to publish in China, it will be removed after July 31.

Startup Manticore Games has established a $1 million fund. The money will be distributed among the creators of games on the Core platform.

Support for Pagan Online as a multiplayer game turned out to be unprofitable. The publisher of Wargaming decided to leave only the singleplayer in the project and sell it only on Steam.

In June, Apple announced that it was tightening its policy on IDFA. Immediately after that, there were fears that such a measure would hit retargeting. We talked to NX Studio, Kefir, MY.GAMES, G5 Entertainment and Gismart about what they think about the current situation.

The US president is considering blocking a number of Chinese applications. Among them was TikTok from ByteDance.

A new large-scale White Nights Summer 2020 conference will be held at the end of July. It will cover five days — from July 20 to July 24. Among the participants: Riot Games, Rovio, Avalanche Studio, Gearbox Software, Miniclip, Netmarble and many others.

Polish 11 bit Studios is preparing seven new games at once. She invested $21.4 million in their production.

Wanted: 2D animator at Matryoshka Games, level designer at Black Caviar Games, 2D artist at Friday’s Games and game analyst at WN Media Group.

The authors of the VR Heaven blog interviewed Reddit users about whether VR helmets cause “seasickness”. It turned out that this problem depends on the gender of the player.

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

Today, on May 7, from 13.00 Moscow time, HTML5 Game Developer Day is taking place. This is a free online event dedicated to the state of the HTML5 gaming products market.