In September last year, Odnoklassniki (OK) held a competition for the best HTML5 project – Instant Games Cup (now, by the way, the second one is coming). Among its winners were the games Memoria and “WORLDS: Evolution”. We tell you how the fate of the projects turned out.

The Finnish forge of Supercell hits has officially launched a new project in softlonch today. It’s called Rush Wars. The game is available for download in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Finalists of the largest esports tournaments win record amounts this year. Both the Fortnite World Cup champion and the winners of The International earned more Wimbledon stars.

Ice-Pick Lodge acknowledged that the remake of “Pestilence. Utopias” turned out to be a commercially unsuccessful project.

Based in Belarus and the UK, Gismart has successfully entered the hyper-casual market. Her first such game in a week since its release reached the mark of 5 million installations.

Facebook has made it easier to work with interactive advertising with the help of the Playable Preview tool. It will help to make sure that the advertising of the game meets the specifications of the site.

One of the first Epic Games Store exclusives will be available on Steam by the end of the year. This is a Hades bagel from the authors of Transistor.

Homescapes publisher has become a strategic partner and investor of Vizor Games. The latter is based in Belarus and is known for such games as “Zombie Farm” and “Klondike”.

California-based mobile publisher Scopely will increase its staff in Barcelona and Dublin. The company will expand its offices in these cities after its The Walking Dead: Road to Survival raised $100 million in investments.

A new selection of books for developers has been released. This time it is useful for game writers.

Last week, Voodoo announced the takeover of the Ukrainian studio h8games, the authors of Helix Jump. We talked about the history of the Kharkiv team and working with Voodoo with Oleg Khromov, CEO and co-founder of h8games.

Ubisoft believes that now is the best time to develop new IP. This is due to future new consoles, and the development of cross-platform.

The Google Play store tried on a new design. With it, the findability of games and applications is simplified.

Newzoo shared an analysis of the cloud platform market. And reflected it on the infographic.

GameRefinery estimated the revenue of game genres in the US iOS market. Match-3 is leading by a large margin.

Wanted: screenwriter at Friday’s Games, project manager at Playrix and game designer at Targem Games.

In September, Apple planned to introduce new rules for children’s games and applications. But now the company has to postpone them.

China is actively preparing a local version of the Valve store. A line of games for Steam China was announced today.

Steam has allowed the publication of adult games for good reason. In the top 20 of the most profitable novelties of the store for the past month, two hentai games appeared at once.