The coronavirus forced Apple to make allowances for iOS developers. They were given more time to migrate applications to the current iOS 13 SDK.

The authors of Homescapes announced material support for the Russian and Ukrainian regions in the fight against coronavirus. Playrix will allocate several grants for the purchase of medical equipment in hospitals.

Belka Games, following other gaming companies, is donating to the fight against COVID-19. The Belarusian studio will transfer $50 thousand to the Minsk City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital. As reported in the press release, the money will go to protective clothing for staff, test systems and much more.

Today, March 26, Epic Games announced a new initiative. It’s called Epic Games Publishing. Within its framework, the company is going to independently bring third-party games to the market. Among the first partners: genDESIGN, Playdead and Remedy Entertainment.

Quarantine for coronavirus has allowed to increase the metrics of many games. Brawl Stars are among them. Over the past week, her installations and revenue have grown noticeably.

The authors Max Payne and Control — the Finnish studio Remedy — signed a contract with a new publisher. It became Epic Games. The companies have agreed to work together on two yet-to-be-announced games for PC and next-generation consoles.

The judicial history between Wargaming and the Blitz Team, founded by former employees of the corporation, continues. Today, the “tank” company announced a new lawsuit against the indie team. This time it is filed in the Federal District Court of Los Angeles. This is the third Wargaming lawsuit against Blitz Team.

Ultra-casual games have appeared on the market. The publisher of Homa Games has analyzed their features in the material “The rise of ultra—casual games – a temporary trend or a new round of hyper-casual?” App2Top.ru publishes the translation.

Doom Eternal broke the franchise record for sales on the release weekend. The game earned twice as much as Doom (2016) in its first weekend. This is reported by Bethesda — however, without naming the exact revenue or the number of copies sold of the novelty. But it is known that Eternal became the bestseller of the week on Steam.

In Japan, the Nintendo Switch console surpassed the Wii in sales. According to the Game Data Library, Switch has sold 12.8 million copies in the country in three years. The Wii’s record in the Japanese market is 12.7 million copies, and they sold twice as slowly.

During the total quarantine, Niantic made changes to Rockemop GO. Pokemon began to appear more often at the player’s home, and baits for them fell by 99%. After that, sales of the game jumped noticeably. In total, from March 16 to 22, she earned $23 million — 66.7% more than a week earlier.

Polish publisher of mobile games BoomBit, previously published midcore Tanks a Lot! and Mighty Heroes, changes the strategy. Now the company plans to specialize in hypercausal titles.

Today, on March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the introduction of a number of economic measures related to the spread of coronavirus. Many of them concern small and medium-sized businesses. We have identified the main ones.

The developers of the Just Cause series are now called Avalanche Studios Group. The change is of a formal nature. It allowed the company to focus on the fact that it is structurally divided into three businesses.

For those who are bored in the evenings, the organizers of the GDC made a gift. At their GDC Vault, they published about 30 performances from the last event, which was held remotely.

A new blockbuster has appeared in the Glu Mobile library. The company has finally officially released Disney Sorcerer’s Arena – a battler in which the Little Mermaid and the Black Cloak fight each other.

Research and Markets specialists have rolled out a forecast for the development of esports until 2025. According to their data, this market will grow by 20% per year on average.

The authors of the game about deadly pandemics Plague Inc. have joined the fight against the coronavirus. They transferred $250 thousand to organizations that are looking for a vaccine against COVID-19.

The main console release of March is a new part of Animal Crossing with a subtitle New Horizons. In the first three days, the game sold 1.88 million copies in Japan alone (this does not include digital copies sold).