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The publisher tinyBuild acquired a development team from the Russian studio Dynamic Pixels, which was engaged in the creation of a series of Hello Neighbor games. The publisher also announced plans to invest $15 million in the development of the brand.

Almost two—thirds of the population of the United States are gamers. And most of them are adults who are 35 to 44 years old. Such data was shared by the Association of Software and Game Manufacturers (ESA) in a recent report on the audience of video games in America.

The story continues with the removal of games from the Chinese App Store that have not received a local license. This time Sensor Tower shares new details.

Plamee, a mobile game developer working in St. Petersburg, has a new owner. On July 15, the publisher of freeplay projects, Tilting Point, announced its acquisition from Playtech, a gambling company.

There were rumors about the possible sale of part of the French Voodoo. The Chinese giant Tencent can act as a buyer.

The second “Gamedev HR Awards” has been announced. This is an annual award dedicated to game recruiting and working with people in the industry. As a year earlier, it is conducted by the recruiting platform and the agency Talents In Games.

On July 12, a new regulation began to take effect in Europe concerning how digital distribution platforms should work with applications and games (first of all, we are talking about the App Store and Google Play).

The Chinese colossus of Tencent is on the way to a new takeover. On July 10, exclusive negotiations between Tencent and Hong Kong-based Leyou Technologies began. The market value of the latter previously reached $1.4 billion.

Yesterday, the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University announced the beginning of a partnership with Epic Games. It is stated that both sides will work together in scientific, educational and business areas. Details about cooperation specifically for App2Top.ru Alexey Savchenko, licensing manager of Epic Games, told us.

A bad day for iOS developers. Many mobile applications on this platform did not work today. It’s all the fault of a bug in the Facebook SDK. It led to constant “crashes” of those programs in which the SDK was installed.

On Thursday, Sony became a minority owner of Epic Games. A Japanese company bought 1.4% of the Unreal Engine developer for a quarter of a billion dollars. Based on the deal, the market value of the entire Epic Games is now an astronomical $17.86 billion.

Against the background of the pandemic and mass self-isolation, mobile games were in great demand. How actively they were downloaded and how much they spent on them, — the analytical company App Annie told in the latest report.

Metacritic decided to fight the review-bombing after all. Now it is impossible to leave a review about the game on the site if 48 hours have not passed since its release.

How was the second quarter for the mobile games market in Russia, — the analytical company App Annie told in a new report.

Top managers of Electronic Arts did not deserve such high salaries. Representatives of CtW Investment Group, an organization that had previously made the same claims to Activision management, are sure of this.

On the morning of July 8, many Chinese game developers received a letter from Apple. It says: if the application does not have permission to publish in China, it will be removed after July 31.

Startup Manticore Games has established a $1 million fund. The money will be distributed among the creators of games on the Core platform.