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.

In September, the fifth part of Gears of War will be released on Xbox One and PC (after rebranding just Gears). There will be no loot boxes or passes in the game. Its authors are going to earn inside the game differently.

The possible price for a subscription in the Apple Arcade service has been named. According to 9to5Mac, monthly access will cost the player $4.99.

In July, digital game sales reached $9.02 billion. This market grew by 5% year-on-year, despite the PC and console segments sagging for the third month in a row.

The audience of the Dauntless frituplein exceeded 14 million players. Moreover, 11 million joined it in less than three months.

The platform with adult games — Nutaku — has almost doubled in a year. Users have registered about 40 million accounts in it.

And a little more about the loot boxes. China is gradually introducing a daily limit on their purchase.

Last year, the Russian video game market earned $1.9 billion. At the same time, the film industry as a whole collected $0.7 billion.

The coveted title of the second largest geolocation game on iOS was unexpectedly snatched by Let’s Hunt Monsters from Tencent. Since April, the game has earned $50 million.

In the two years since the release, downloads of Last Day on Earth have reached the 130 million mark. Moreover, most of them — 80% — fell on Google Play.

Analytical company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released a large-scale report on the Russian entertainment market. Special attention is devoted to the video game market.