Esports December 22, 2020 An esports organization has signed an 8-year—old player to Fortnite – it may be illegal The esports organization Team 33 has signed a contract with an 8-year-old Fortnite player. Many considered the transaction with such a small child illegal, but the organization itself believes that it does not violate labor laws regarding minors.Joseph Dean
Results for 2020 December 22, 2020 2020 results: Vasily Maguryan from MY.GAMES about the main thing for the year Vasily Maguryan, CEO of MY.GAMES, spoke about the growing interest of the market in “women’s” games in his results.
Industry December 22, 2020 Infographics: 2020 in numbers The end of 2020 is not far off. In honor of this, our colleagues from GamesIndustry showed the final figures of the gaming industry in their infographic.
Industry December 22, 2020 Apple: the new EU payment directive will start working in a week and a half On December 31, a new digital payment authentication policy will come into effect in Europe. It will also affect the App Store. Apple told developers how to prepare for changes.
Investments and transactions December 22, 2020 Nordisk Games has invested in the authors of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Metroid: Samus Returns Nordisk Games has acquired 40% of the MercurySteam studio, known for the game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. This is the first deal of a Danish company outside the Nordic countries.The exact size of the deal was not disclosed, but Nordisk Games calls this amount “significant”.
Analytics December 22, 2020 Benchmark for idle games from GameAnalytics What indicators in terms of user engagement should you look up to if you are developing an idler,” GameAnalytics said in its latest small study.Recall that idle is a genre derived from the clicker, in which the role of constant taps on the screen to accumulate resources is reduced to a minimum.
Industry December 22, 2020 The audience of KamaGames games has overcome the milestone of 150 million people KamaGames, a developer and publisher with Russian roots, can boast of a new achievement. The number of unique users in its social casinos has reached 150 million people.
Investments and transactions December 22, 2020 Voodoo has bought the Paris mobile studio OHM Games Hyper-casual publisher Voodoo has made a new acquisition. Into his hands passed the Paris studio OHM Games, which developed, among others, Shortcut Run, Knock Balls and Push ’em All.
Analytics December 22, 2020 Downloads of the mobile League of Legends reached 12.5 million Less than two months have passed since the launch of the open beta League of Legends: Wild Rift, as the title has already been installed by more than 12 million gamers. This is despite the fact that the game was initially available only in seven countries and entered the global market only in early December.