Every March, the analytical company App Annie publishes a “deck” of the world’s most earning mobile publishers based on the results of the previous year (we are talking about total earnings from the App Store and Google Play from January to December). This March was no exception.

The Ministry of Broadcast studio has found two publishers at once to release its debut game in Asia and in the West. They told the Game World Observer about this and about their approach to the development of story-oriented games. App2Top.ru publishes a translation of the interview.

Call of Duty: Warzone attracted 30 million players in 10 days. Its growth is all the more impressive when compared with Apex Legends and Fortnite.

Analysts from SuperData summed up the results of last month in digital retail. According to their estimates, its annual growth was 4%, reaching $9.2 billion.

We tell you how many in the gaming industry have switched to “remote”, as well as what tools they use to organize work at home.

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

2019 was not only an anniversary year for Bohemia Interactive, but also a very successful one. The Czech company earned $68 million in the year of its 20th anniversary.

We asked five marketing companies — Appodeal, AdQuantum, Digital Turbine, Borscht and AdSide Media — about the impact of the pandemic on the gaming advertising market.

The developer and publisher of mobile games Scopely has again attracted millions of investments. In the new round of the “D” series, $200 million was invested in it.

Last year, iPhone owners spent an average of $54 on mobile games. 99% of the money was earned by fritupley titles.

The Yakut IT business decided to help local hospitals. In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the MyTona gaming company, inDriver passenger transportation service and entrepreneur Arsen Tomsky will allocate 45 million rubles to hospitals in Yakutia for the purchase of artificial lung ventilation (ventilator) devices.

Teamfight Tactics mobile autobattler launched today. The novelty has become available all over the world, except for the countries of Southeast Asia.

Valve continues to work on improving the visibility and findability of games on Steam. The official release of the new user interface took place yesterday. It is called an “Interactive Assistant” and uses machine learning to find the games that users are most likely to like.

This year, the GDC 2020 Awards ceremony was held in an online format. The humorous puzzle about a goose — Untitled Goose Game was named the best game for the past year.

In light of the pandemic, the Russian government felt that it should support small and medium-sized businesses. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced a moratorium on the payment of insurance premiums for small and medium-sized businesses.

A large article about Playrix was published on the pages of the Russian Forbes. In addition to the history of the company’s formation, it gives some interesting figures.

The quarantine of coronavirus in China and South Korea plays into the hands of the game rendezvous. Weekly installations increased significantly in both countries in February. In the Middle Kingdom — by 80% at once compared to the average of 2019.

Gamedev was hit by a wave of mergers and acquisitions. Another of them was the purchase of the mobile Eight Pixels Square by the Swiss publisher Miniclip.

The first announcement in a very long time from Moscow Pixonic. The studio is going to release a new mobile multiplayer project soon. It is called Dino Squad and is dedicated to team battles on dinosaurs.