The demand for mobile HTML5 games in Russia and the CIS is growing. According to the Odnoklassniki social network, in the first five months of 2020, they paid 360 million rubles (about $ 5.2 million) to the developers of such games. This is 80% more than in the same period a year earlier.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive has acquired its first development studio. It became the German Deck13 Interactive.

The new blockbuster Naughty Dog for the opening weekend (June 19-21) sold 4 million copies. According to Sony, no exclusive PlayStation 4 game has ever been sold out at the start at such a rate.

Yesterday, on June 25, there was a closed presentation of the next most anticipated game of the year — Cyberpunk 2077. We tell you what CD Projekt RED showed and how the media reacted.

The other day Apple announced iOS 14. The new system risks reshaping the entire mobile advertising market. After its release in September, applications downloaded from the App Store will be required to ask the user if he is ready to share information about himself with advertising platforms.

This year, gamers will spend $159.3 billion on games. This is 9.3% more in annual terms. The main growth factors are the pandemic and the upcoming launch of new consoles.

Israeli Playtika will temporarily remove its employees and their family members from Belarus. The company denies the connection of these plans with the difficult political situation in the country.

The subscription model is becoming increasingly important for Microsoft. It will determine the launch of the Xbox Series X, said Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer).

The Russian authorities are thinking about the abolition of zero VAT on the sale of software. This is how they want to compensate for the reduction in income tax for IT companies proposed by Vladimir Putin.

HTML5 Game Developer Day will be held in two weeks. This is an event for creating HTML5 games. Among the speakers are representatives of Cocos, Snap, Facebook, SoftGames, CoolGames, Odnoklassniki and many other companies.

On the Defold engine, you can now make games for Switch. The Defold Foundation announced the integration with the Nintendo console.

Marketing firm Mintegral is preparing a Playturbo platform for game developers. It will allow you to create interactive advertising banners.

Starting in July, Apple will begin to exclude games from the Chinese App Store that have not previously been officially licensed in China.

MAU Epic Games Store jumped to 61 million people. The online peak of 13 million users was also recorded. All this is thanks to the distribution of GTA V.

Facebook has abandoned another VR headset. Oculus will cease support and production of Oculus Go.

Training resource Unity has become free forever. The authors of the engine gave free access to 350 hours of Unity Learn Premium content in connection with the coronavirus.

Some good news. Vladimir Putin announced serious tax and insurance breaks for Russian IT companies. According to him, now the conditions will be even better than in Ireland.

How many games use advertising for monetization, how to correctly estimate the potential daily revenue from advertising, how to properly set up advertising monetization in your game? — answers these and many other questions in his column for App2Top.ru Orly Tsesis, Publishing Solutions Manager Facebook Audience Network.

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