With a look at what principles a game designer should adhere to in his work, — in his column on App2Top.ru shared Eduard Kumykov, the lead game designer of the Solitaire Cruise project from Belka Games (according to App Annie, she is now among the top 20 highest-grossing publishers in EMEA).

China’s ByteDance continues to strengthen its gaming business. The company announced that its Nuverse gaming division has acquired Beijing-based studio C4games. The latter is known for the mobile game Red Alert Online.

The Chinese authorities are going to tighten the regulation of developers. To do this, a special game rating system is being introduced in the country. Projects will be evaluated according to several criteria at once, which will form an overall assessment on a five-point system. Games that have received a low score will not be allowed to be released.Perfect World

The industrial giant ByteDance is on the verge of entering the stock market. Chinese media report that TikTok owners are actively preparing for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It is assumed that the capitalization of the company after him will reach an astronomical $ 400 billion.

Creative Assembly continues to expand. Now 800 people work in the company’s three studios, which makes the authors of the Total War series the largest game developer in the UK.Photo: Creative Assembly

Ilya Eremeev and Maria Kochmola, with the participation of Sergey Titov and GEM Capital, launched a gaming investment fund. It’s called The Games Fund. We talked to his co—founders about how he works and what projects he is ready to invest in.

The Games Fund is a new early—stage venture fund that specializes in investing in game developers from Eastern Europe. It was founded by people from MGVC, Riot Games and GEM Capital, and its size will be $ 50 million.The Games Fund notes that the size of the investment depends on the round of portfolio companies.

The turnover of another gaming market has updated the historical maximum. This time we are talking about Italy. Last year, local gamers spent over €2 billion on games for the first time. That’s just the number of Italians playing games has decreased slightly — to 16.7 million people (in 2019 there were 17 million of them).