On March 6, the Yes, Your Grace simulator was released on Steam. Over the weekend, the game earned $ 600 thousand. The publisher of No More Robots named possible reasons for this success.

Loot boxes remain an urgent topic for legislators. In Australia, it is proposed to prohibit the sale of all games with this mechanic to persons under 18 years of age. There are also plans to start checking the age of users online.

More than 1 million copies of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem have been sold on Steam. Recall that this indie-diabloid came out of early access on February 13.

The Steam gaming platform relies on personalized news feeds. Valve has introduced new functionality for the store. It allows you to track news on interesting games.

Continuation of the story with the Wargaming lawsuit against its former employees. Legal proceedings have begun in Cyprus. The defendant, an indie developer of the Blitz Team, may be banned from using his own name. From the lawsuit, Apple removed his game in European stores. 

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.