For the second time in five years, the Russian box office top at the end of the month was headed by a game whose team was founded by immigrants from Russia. “Chronicles of Chaos” from Nexters outperformed all competitors, earning $2.7 million on the local market.

NetEase followed Tencent into the Chinese streaming services market. The company has launched an open beta test of the NetEase Cloud Games platform.

Marketing companies Adjust and Liftoff have published a report on the Japanese mobile market in terms of engagement. The game segment was also mentioned in it.

Gameloft has closed another studio. This time — the British Gameloft UK.

App2Top.ru together with Talents In Games conducts research. His goal is to find out for what reasons people change jobs in the industry, what usually does not suit employees in gaming companies, and also how often they hunt here.

Sensor Tower analysts appreciated the success of Call of Duty: Mobile in the first two months. Her earnings reached $87 million, and downloads — 172 million.

By 2025, Playrix intends to catch up with the annual revenue of the leaders of the American market — companies of the Activision Blizzard level.

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.