The Android release of GameClub took place. This is a service that, for a monthly subscription of $4.99, opens access to a library of 100 old mobile titles (including The Heist, Gravity Hook, Toki Tori, Frozen Synapse and others).

The relationship between Apple and Facebook is not going well. The Apple company does not want a Facebook app with its own library of games to appear in the App Store.

Another tool for JRPG lovers to be. Last week, the Japanese publisher Degica Games announced RPG Maker MZ, a new version of the designer /engine for creating two-dimensional role-playing games.

An online conference for gaming specialists was held last week. We share its results, figures and a link to the reports.

MY.GAMES decided to share its assessment of the Russian market for 2019 in June. It is more cautious than that of Yandex, which previously published a similar study together with Newzoo. However, in general details, both works converge.

Two experienced bizdev/sayzla, after six years of developing a consulting agency for publishing games, decided to publish games themselves. To do this, they turned to another consulting agency — DDM. Now they promise to love and appreciate developers.

June 30th is approaching. After this date, Western games running in the Chinese App Store without local ratification will be outlawed. How Apple will deal with them is still unclear. But there are other details about the current situation.

Apple continues to please with news on the eve of WWDC 2020. Yesterday, without any announcements or warnings, she updated the App Store Connect, the manager for working with iOS applications.

Wanted: art director at AppQuantum, level designer at MYTONA and motion designer at Plarium.

It is generally assumed that hyper-casual projects have a short life span. However, they have been actively assembling installations for much longer than three months. This conclusion was made by developer Dmitry Kuratnik, analyzing the most downloaded hyper casual titles for January-March. He shared this and other observations in the column-research for App2Top.ru .

Today, June 17, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to gaming ASO. Application page optimization specialists in the App Store and Google Play will discuss the market situation, the latest trends, common pitfalls in the niche.

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

The Russian market can generate a solid increase in installations in a short time. A striking example is a new game based on the My Talking Tom franchise. In Russia alone, it collected almost 3 million installations in a day. This is a third of all the starting world installations of the game.

Unreal Engine and Fortnite developers are preparing for a new round of investment attraction. This time we are talking about the amount of $ 750 million. The entire company under the deal is valued at an astronomical $17 billion.

There are many courses on game design on the market. What is their problem? — in the column for App2Top.ru answers Evgeny Sudak, Head of the Game design department at Pixonic.

The Australian video game market for 2019 fell by 10% year-on-year. The decline in indicators affected almost all sectors of the gaming economy, except subscriptions. On the contrary, it jumped by 28%.

A new one-hour interview from App2Top.ru . This time we talked with Ivan Domankov, co-founder and managing partner of Highcore Games. In the center of the conversation is the story of the launch of the midcore mobile game Tanks A Lot.

Talents In Games conducts a small survey. It is dedicated to the reaction of industry participants to the forced quarantine. We invite you to take part in it, share your attitude to the situation.

Daria Pavlyuk — head of Search Optimization studio ZiMAD — in her column for readers App2Top.ru she told how she had built the ASO direction in the company in a new way, as well as how this direction works today.