During the period from “Black Friday” to “Cyber Monday” (from November 29 to December 2), $4.36 billion was spent on video games in digital retail. This is 9% more than in the same events a year earlier.

On the eve of Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Apple summed up the results of the year. She published a list of games that she considers the best in the outgoing 2019.

Law enforcement agencies of the United States are wary of applications developed in Russia. This became known from a letter from FBI Director for Congressional Affairs Jill C. Tyson (Jill C. Tyson).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an ambiguous law that obliges to pre-install programs of domestic development on smart devices. Its wording raises many questions.

Apple has published Christmas dates on which the App Store will not accept new games and updates for approval.

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

Gismart has announced the opening of its fourth office. It will be located in the capital of Ukraine. Its focus will be the development of hyper-casual games for mobile devices.

Last Thursday, ZeptoLab released the first third-party game. In Russia, it is called “Am Yum: Evolution” and is an idler with merge mechanics. We have in the material a story about the project and a short interview with the head of the publishing direction of ZeptoLab.

On January 23-24, a conference for game developers White Nights will be held in the capital of the Netherlands. Recently, its first speakers became known.

Solutions from mobile game development are also moving into “big” development. In the Age of Empires 4 desktop strategy, the training will be based on the analytics collected by the developers.

British Codemasters is building up its asset portfolio. She is going to acquire London-based Slightly Mad Studios for $30 million.

One of the main global releases of December on the mobile games market will be Black Desert Mobile. In the softlonch alone, the game generated more than half a million dollars in a month.

Sensor Tower this week announced two mobile games at once, whose combined revenue reached $2 billion. Such indicators can now boast Candy Crush Soda Saga by King and Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle by Bandai Namco.

Non-standard gaming niches also attract investors. Genvid Technologies, a company engaged in the creation of technology for interactive streaming of esports broadcasts, recently received almost three tens of millions of dollars from business angels.

The Russian-based gaming company Playrix now earns a billion dollars a year on mobile. This is without taking into account the revenue from advertising, exclusively from in—game micropayments.

The release of Stadia turned out to be one of the most disastrous launches in the history of gaming platforms. This is what representatives of the analytical firm DFC Intelligence think.

On November 23, an event for game specialists Talents In Games was held in Minsk. Today, on November 27, the organizer — WN Media Group — shared its results.

Wanted: graphic designer at Beresnev Games, narrative designer at Playrix and advertising creative artist at Awem Games.

Prague independent studio Beat Games has come under the control of Facebook. The amount of the transaction is not called.