At the end of 2018, TikTok surpassed Instargam and Snapchat downloads. Now the application has more than a billion installations, and the MAU is approaching the 500 million mark. At the same time, the platform remains quite closed for advertisers. Often the only way to access it is through an official reseller.

HR platform for job search in the gaming industry Talentsingames.com together with the organizers of the White Nights Conference, they announced the launch of the “Game Dev HR Awards“. This is the first annual award dedicated to game recruiting and HR work in the industry.

Nintendo continues to experiment with game kits for Switch. Cardboard constructors have already been. Next up is a rubber hoop for fitness.

In July, app developers for the Chinese App Store received revenue that was seven times higher than usual. This is a consequence of a banking error.

Belarusian studio Belka Games has announced a deal with marketing company AppLovin. Now the parties are strategic partners.

Beta testing of the new Steam library starts on September 17. It will be open to all users of the store.

In August, Pokémon GO earned $110 million. It was the most profitable month for the title in the last three years.

Women predominate among the mobile players in the Japanese market. This conclusion was made by analysts of the Chinese Gamma Data, based on Newzoo data.

Playrix founders Igor and Dmitry Bukhman in an interview with the channel “Russian Norms!” stated that they invested in the summer of 2018 in the Nexters gaming company, publisher of the Chronicles of Chaos and The Battle for the Throne.

The next version of Unreal Engine has arrived — 4.23. It includes an improved set of visualization tools and an advanced physics system.

At the end of August, Epic Games announced a partnership with the film production company Goldfinch. As part of the cooperation, they are holding a competition among games on Unreal Engine 4. The top 10 projects will receive film adaptations. We talked about cross-media in general and about the competition in particular with Alexey Savchenko, licensing manager of Epic Games.

Wanted: producer at Awem Games, developer of game services at Gaijin Entertainment and project manager at Plarium.

Half of indie developers sell their games too cheaply. Game designer Simon Carless talks about why an indie game should cost at least $20.

In the market of subscription gaming services — one more. Today Ubisoft launched the recently announced Uplay+. What the publisher wants to achieve with its help, said Ubisoft Vice President Brenda Panagrossi.

The domestic company My.Games, a gaming division Mail.Ru Group, is considering the possibility of creating a mobile games store.

Gearbox Studio raises money for Homeworld 3 with the help of crowdfunding. Something like this can be expected from smaller studios, but not from the authors of Borderlands.

Formally, by the end of August 2019, Playrix, based in Russia, entered the world’s top three leaders in earnings from mobile games. Only Tencent and NetEase are ahead.

About whether it is possible to predict the sales of the game with the help of wishlists in Steam developers, tell YoYo Games.

August turned out to be rich in permutations in the domestic game development. Following the changes in Pixonic and VK, it became known about the changes in the Azur Games studio. The latter is among the top ten highest-grossing mobile gaming companies in Russia.