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.

Mobile Crazy Labs has an impressive achievement. The installations of her hyper-casual games exceeded 3 billion.

Talents In Games conducts a small survey and invites readers App2Top.ru take part in it. It concerns whether, in the light of recent events, many have switched to remote work.

Last year, residents of Russia bought 1.9 million console games on physical media at retail. In monetary terms, sales amounted to 4.2 billion rubles, according to the group “M.Video-El Dorado“.

Wanted: traffic manager at Kefir Studio, level artist at Plarium, junior game designer at Friday’s Games and IT recruiter at Azur Games.

Activision Blizzard is in a hurry to update the manual. Shortly after the change of the president, the company appointed a new director of communications. Under the previous top manager in this position, there was a PR disaster around Blizzard.

The authors of Clash of Clans are preparing a new game for release. For the first time in a long time, this project is designed not for a midcore, but for a casual audience. The main mechanics of the novelty is collapse (aka match-2).

Vainglory development veterans have founded a new game studio in California — Bazooka Tango. The seed round of financing brought her $2.5 million.

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

Another bad news. Android app developers have been warned that reviews will take longer.  Sometimes you will have to wait for the “green signal” for 7 days. In some cases, the process may be delayed for an even longer period.

Sensor Tower has presented a list of the most downloaded hyper casual games for February. The first two places in the top were taken by the games of the giant Voodoo, one of them is a novelty.

No meetings and personal communication in San Jose. The WWDC Developer Conference, traditionally the most important event of the year for any Apple developer, will not take place in the usual format. Due to the threats associated with the coronavirus, the Apple company decided to conduct it exclusively online.

In the US, revenue from video games, gaming devices and accessories continues to decline. Last month, the market turnover amounted to $755 million — 34% less than in February 2019.