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

Last week it became known that Apple is “blocking the oxygen” of IDFA. Users in iOS will be able to block the transfer of information about themselves to advertising companies by clicking. We asked Adjust, AdQuantum and Digital Turbine how much this will affect the UA market.

Times Kongregate.com they leave. The gaming platform blocks the launch of new web games, closes some of its forums and fires employees en masse.

Today, July 1, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to game analytics. Vera Karpova from devtodev will talk about building analytical processes at each stage of the game creation.

The other day, an intra-corporate event started at MYTONA for the second time. It’s called MYTONA Heroes. In it, the participants set themselves a goal that they have long dreamed of achieving, and after seven weeks they achieve it. In your column on App2Top.ru the company told how and why it was held for the first time a year earlier.

Facebook Instagram will no longer advertise Microsoft products. The corporation has frozen advertising expenses in these services.

The troubles of the Swedish Starbreeze do not end there. She planned to find a publisher for Payday 3, but negotiations with partners were disrupted by COVID-19. Now Starbreeze needs almost $27 million to save the situation.

One of the oldest MMORPGs — RuneScape — is gaining popularity. Thanks to this, the income of the Jagex developer has been growing for the fifth year. In 2019, the company earned a record $137.6 million.

One of the co-founders left the Finnish Supercell. Mikko Kodisoja left the company, remaining on its board of directors.

Tencent is preparing to launch the Trovo streaming platform. This is a service similar to Twitch, but focused on mobile, Bloomberg reports.

The NeoAxis Engine has switched to a new free license. Within its framework, its full source code became available to developers.

The demand for mobile HTML5 games in Russia and the CIS is growing. According to the Odnoklassniki social network, in the first five months of 2020, they paid 360 million rubles (about $ 5.2 million) to the developers of such games. This is 80% more than in the same period a year earlier.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive has acquired its first development studio. It became the German Deck13 Interactive.

The new blockbuster Naughty Dog for the opening weekend (June 19-21) sold 4 million copies. According to Sony, no exclusive PlayStation 4 game has ever been sold out at the start at such a rate.

Yesterday, on June 25, there was a closed presentation of the next most anticipated game of the year — Cyberpunk 2077. We tell you what CD Projekt RED showed and how the media reacted.

The other day Apple announced iOS 14. The new system risks reshaping the entire mobile advertising market. After its release in September, applications downloaded from the App Store will be required to ask the user if he is ready to share information about himself with advertising platforms.

This year, gamers will spend $159.3 billion on games. This is 9.3% more in annual terms. The main growth factors are the pandemic and the upcoming launch of new consoles.

Israeli Playtika will temporarily remove its employees and their family members from Belarus. The company denies the connection of these plans with the difficult political situation in the country.

The subscription model is becoming increasingly important for Microsoft. It will determine the launch of the Xbox Series X, said Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer).