Yesterday, December 4, the open beta testing of the MY.GAMES Store distribution platform started. It was announced in August.

The unauthorized departure of the Human Head developers from the publisher led to a lawsuit. Publisher Ragnarok Game accused the now defunct studio of fraud and unfair business conduct.

The developers of Pathfinder: Kingmaker received funding from GEM Capital, whose owner is close to Gazprom‘s management. The transfer amount is one million dollars.

Of the 20 most downloaded games of the year, 14 are hyper-casual. Including Polysphere. The development of the Belarusian Playgendary turned out to be in sixth place in the world by downloads from the App Store at the end of the year.

Google Corporation summed up the results of the year. The company told which mobile games it considers the best in the outgoing year.

Wanted: game designer at Playgendary, programmer of C++ game logic at Targem Games and concept artist at Friday’s Games.

During the period from “Black Friday” to “Cyber Monday” (from November 29 to December 2), $4.36 billion was spent on video games in digital retail. This is 9% more than in the same events a year earlier.

On the eve of Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Apple summed up the results of the year. She published a list of games that she considers the best in the outgoing 2019.

Law enforcement agencies of the United States are wary of applications developed in Russia. This became known from a letter from FBI Director for Congressional Affairs Jill C. Tyson (Jill C. Tyson).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an ambiguous law that obliges to pre-install programs of domestic development on smart devices. Its wording raises many questions.

Apple has published Christmas dates on which the App Store will not accept new games and updates for approval.

By the end of November App2Top.ru Together with DataMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Gismart has announced the opening of its fourth office. It will be located in the capital of Ukraine. Its focus will be the development of hyper-casual games for mobile devices.

Last Thursday, ZeptoLab released the first third-party game. In Russia, it is called “Am Yum: Evolution” and is an idler with merge mechanics. We have in the material a story about the project and a short interview with the head of the publishing direction of ZeptoLab.

On January 23-24, a conference for game developers White Nights will be held in the capital of the Netherlands. Recently, its first speakers became known.

Solutions from mobile game development are also moving into “big” development. In the Age of Empires 4 desktop strategy, the training will be based on the analytics collected by the developers.

British Codemasters is building up its asset portfolio. She is going to acquire London-based Slightly Mad Studios for $30 million.

One of the main global releases of December on the mobile games market will be Black Desert Mobile. In the softlonch alone, the game generated more than half a million dollars in a month.

Sensor Tower this week announced two mobile games at once, whose combined revenue reached $2 billion. Such indicators can now boast Candy Crush Soda Saga by King and Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle by Bandai Namco.