Updating the search on Steam allowed us to estimate the volume of indie content on the site. According to the “indie” tag, you can find over 40 thousand products in the store.

Apple’s policy regarding HTML5 programs continues to tighten. The other day, the company reminded about updating the list of requirements for such applications.

Mobile Pokémon Masters was released a week ago. It has already earned $26 million and became the second best launch in the series.

The “tank” giant followed the path Mail.Ru Group. The company opens its launcher for third-party projects.

To the urgent question of crunches. It is quite realistic to manage a game project in real time so as not to overwork developers. This opinion belongs to Tami Sigmund, producer of Zynga Studio.

The famous EVE Online is difficult to master. Last year, only 10% of 600 thousand new players stayed in it for longer than a week. To solve the problem, CCP Games will introduce an MMO “hotline” for beginners.

Yesterday, the Finnish Rovio launched Sugar Blast worldwide. The game is based on the original IP, but its mechanics are identical to the gameplay of the latest Angry Birds title.

At the end of 2018, TikTok surpassed Instargam and Snapchat downloads. Now the application has more than a billion installations, and the MAU is approaching the 500 million mark. At the same time, the platform remains quite closed for advertisers. Often the only way to access it is through an official reseller.

HR platform for job search in the gaming industry Talentsingames.com together with the organizers of the White Nights Conference, they announced the launch of the “Game Dev HR Awards“. This is the first annual award dedicated to game recruiting and HR work in the industry.

Nintendo continues to experiment with game kits for Switch. Cardboard constructors have already been. Next up is a rubber hoop for fitness.

In July, app developers for the Chinese App Store received revenue that was seven times higher than usual. This is a consequence of a banking error.

Belarusian studio Belka Games has announced a deal with marketing company AppLovin. Now the parties are strategic partners.

Beta testing of the new Steam library starts on September 17. It will be open to all users of the store.

In August, Pokémon GO earned $110 million. It was the most profitable month for the title in the last three years.

Women predominate among the mobile players in the Japanese market. This conclusion was made by analysts of the Chinese Gamma Data, based on Newzoo data.

Playrix founders Igor and Dmitry Bukhman in an interview with the channel “Russian Norms!” stated that they invested in the summer of 2018 in the Nexters gaming company, publisher of the Chronicles of Chaos and The Battle for the Throne.

The next version of Unreal Engine has arrived — 4.23. It includes an improved set of visualization tools and an advanced physics system.

At the end of August, Epic Games announced a partnership with the film production company Goldfinch. As part of the cooperation, they are holding a competition among games on Unreal Engine 4. The top 10 projects will receive film adaptations. We talked about cross-media in general and about the competition in particular with Alexey Savchenko, licensing manager of Epic Games.

Wanted: producer at Awem Games, developer of game services at Gaijin Entertainment and project manager at Plarium.