Already two games from the portfolio of the Russian Playrix have earned over $ 1 billion. Gardenscape s had previously reached this mark. Now Homescapes has joined her.

Yesterday, Microsoft began shipping the HoloLens 2 AR headset. These mixed reality glasses are designed for corporate clients.

A product from Valve may appear on the market of gaming cloud services. Its name — Steam Cloud Gaming — is contained in the code of the corporate website.

It’s time to report for the third quarter to Activision Blizzard publisher. Both financial indicators and the size of the audience continue to decline.

Russian ZeptoLab has announced the creation of a new division — ZeptoLab Green. It will develop the Om Nom brand, which includes the popular Cut the Rope series of games.

Take-Two, as part of a conference call, shared the results for the second fiscal quarter. The publisher’s revenues increased by 74%, including thanks to the launch of new parts of Borderlands and the NBA.

Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida has moved to a new position in the company. He has led a new program to support indie developers on PlayStation platforms.

Wanted: author of marketing videos at Beresnev Games, heads of testing and analytics departments at MY.GAMES and concept artist at Deus Craft.

Tencent has increased its portfolio of Scandinavian assets. The company has invested $4 million in a team from Sweden — Stunlock Studios. And thus solved her financial problems.

Just AI has created an investment “Voice Games Support Fund”. The foundation’s grants can reach up to 1 million rubles.

Supercell will close the Rush Wars project. This PvP strategy didn’t even have time to get out of the soft launch.

Swedish G5 Games, founded by immigrants from the Russian Federation, reported for the 3rd quarter of 2019. Its total revenue for the quarter was $31 million — 12% less in annual terms.

Micropayments are a common practice on “big platforms” even in premium projects. At the same time, they are not helping the desktop and console market grow today. Why, — the analytical company SuperData told in its latest research.

At the end of this month, a conference for game developers Talents In Games will be held in Minsk. The other day, its organizers shared the program. Among the speakers are Vizor, Belka and Banzai.

Last year was very successful for Ilkka Paananen. The CEO of Supercell earned €110 million in twelve months. This is €45 million more than a year earlier.

This year we launched Publisher Wanted. This is a service for game developers and publishers. The former can use it to declare their project, and the latter can find a suitable one for themselves. Now we will publish on the pages App2Top.ru the most interesting games from the playground.

Yesterday, in the first reading, the State Duma adopted a bill according to which Russia may ban the sale of any devices that do not have Russian software preinstalled from next summer. We asked the law firm Semenov&Pevzner to comment on the document.

In the first reading, the State Duma of Russia approved amendments to the article “On Consumer Rights Protection”. According to the new version of the article, the sale of computing devices on which Russian programs are not pre-installed will soon be banned in the Russian Federation.

The search giant decided to help developers with audience engagement. Google has announced the launch of a loyalty program in the United States. It’s called Google Play Points.