We talked with gaming industry experts about how the adoption of the law on the introduction of a “Google tax” on the Russian gaming software market could affect.

The “Apple” analytical service has been replenished with a new tool called App Store Impressions or “Impressions” in the Russian version. Developers have been able to track the conversion of icon views to visits to the application page.

Product-Wooga lead Adam Telfer on the pages of the Deconstructor of Fun blog told what is good about Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, which now occupies leading positions in the US box office tops.

The release of the mobile RPG Dawnbringer from the Danish studio Kiloo Games – publishers and producers Subway Surfers. The Danish team Copenhagen Creators became a co-author of the game.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation has adopted a law introducing an 18% value-added tax for IT companies operating in Russia from abroad.

An update with 2D features for the Unity engine has been released. The release is experimental in nature. This became known from the official Unity blog.

Apple has published an updated guide for publishing applications. The guide line was released in text format and in the form of comics.

During the upcoming White Nights summer session, three experts from the Russian gaming audience – Leonid Sirotin, Alexander Vashchenko and Sergey Babaev – will talk about the current gaming industry while smoking a hookah.

Apple has named the winners of the annual Apple Design Awards. 12 projects won in the nomination. Of these, 5 are games.

The other day, Apple announced the imminent introduction of advertising in the search in the App Store. We talked with Russian marketing companies about how this innovation can affect the market.

The share of Supercell shares owned by the Japanese company SoftBank was estimated at $9 billion. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to “informed persons”.

How many children are there in Russia, what they play games on, what is the volume of the children’s market, – he told App2Top.ru Alexey Ilyin, head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction.

What does the Finnish gaming industry look like? What are the conditions for investing in games in Finland? Is it possible for foreigners to launch a company in Finland and get support? We talked about this and much more with Oleg Paliy, who is organizing Finnish Game Day together with Nevosoft on June 27 in St. Petersburg.

What unites Tap Titants and Nonstop Knight, how to manage online projects, why Mail.Ru Group is a division for creating experimental games, – in our selection of the main materials of the week.

Ubisoft studio in Casablanca, with 48 employees, ceases its work 18 years after its foundation.

In early access to Steam, Destinations Workshop Tools from Valve appeared. The package allows you to create VR scenes.

MMO accounts for 60% of earnings from the PC gaming market. 89% of MMO revenue comes from the shareware distribution model (free-to-play).

A full-fledged MMO is still a rare guest on mobile platforms. But, most likely, there will be much more of them in the near future. In the meantime, every novelty is an event.

Why there are no AAA projects on Unity, what is the difference between the new subscription plans for the engine and why it is easier to find a job with the Unity certificate,” Clive Downie, marketing director at Unity, told App2Top.