Which sources and sites should be monitored if you are developing hyper—casual games, – told in the material for App2Top.ru Anatoly Maksimov, developer and one of the founders of the Telegram channel HYPER CASUAL.

The other day Unity published a Mobile Game Monetization Report. In it, the company spoke about the state of affairs with the monetization of mobile games at the end of 2019. We have highlighted the main points of the study.

In the second or third quarter, the industry is waiting for the transfer of a large number of releases. The reason is that many companies rely on Chinese outsourcing, which now cannot meet the existing demand due to the coronavirus.

Esports startup Esports Players League has attracted $1 million seed investments. He specializes mostly in mobile disciplines.

American Tilting Point has made a new acquisition. The strategic RPG Star Trek: Timelines, together with the development team, has completely passed into her hands.

The Russian-based Playrix gaming corporation continues to expand. The company announced the purchase of the Armenian studio Plexonic, known for the Panda Jam game.

Google is increasing the number of developers for Stadia. The Internet giant has opened a new studio and appointed her head of the ex-head of the God of War team.

By the end of February App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

The publisher of Zynga was sued. The company is accused, among other things, of hiding the leakage of personal data of millions of users.

Wanted: game analyst at Melsoft Games, Unity developer at Belka Games, account manager at WN Media Group and lead Unity developer at Dark Crystal Games.

Users are increasingly turning to old games adapted to modern devices and realities. Therefore, companies that specialize exclusively in such products began to appear on the market. One of them is Ziggurat Interactive.

In a closed news feed for employees Mail.Ru Group yesterday there was a post with new rules. According to him, “until the situation is clarified,” the company cancels business trips and trips to conferences in those countries that are at risk.

Not a day without M&A news. The authors of the AppMagic mobile application market analysis platform reported on the involvement of third-party funds. The role of the investor was played by the marketing company RoasUp, specializing in the purchase of traffic from Facebook.

Google‘s biggest tech conference — I/O 2020 — is canceled. As in the case of Facebook and Informa events, the cause was coronavirus.

From 2017 to 2019, the Chinese authorities relocated 80,000 Uighurs of Xinjiang to the east of the country for forced labor in factories where Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo devices are also manufactured.

An exclusive bundle will appear in World of Warships for nine weeks. All proceeds from its sales will be used to provide psychological assistance to veterans and US military personnel.

Danish SYBO Games has taken a very responsible approach to updating the most downloaded game in the world. The new version of Subway Surfers received its own softlonch as a separate application.

Yesterday, the Swedish publisher Zordix acquired the Invictus Games studio. The latter develops games for consoles, PC and mobile devices.

In the new season of Destiny 2, the sale of loot boxes will be closed. So Bungie studio will make the system of random rewards more transparent for players.