The growth in dollar terms turned out to be significantly less.

Russian gamers’ spending on console games continues to grow. Last year, Russians bought more than 1.8 million games on physical media, spending over 4.4 billion rubles. The lion’s share of purchases came from discs for PlayStation consoles.

By the end of this year, the cloud gaming market will cross the billion dollar milestone for the first time. That’s what Newzoo analysts think. According to their estimates, for the whole of 2021, such services should earn about $ 1.4 billion.

In its latest report, the Polish firm DM BOŚ estimated the value of CD Projekt shares at only 231 Polish zloty ($58.7) apiece. Analysts called the creators of Cyberpunk 2077 the “most hated” studio in the world and lowered the forecast for sales of the company’s games. However, they believe that developers have a chance to return to previous heights.Update: In the DM BOŚ estimate, we are talking about the stock price per share.

The German gaming market continues to grow rapidly. Last year, residents of the country spent €8.5 billion on games for the first time. The reason is obvious — self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales of microtransactions and various online services grew the most against the background of lockdown.

The mobile version of Genshin Impact has earned over $1 billion in the App Store and Google Play. It took six months. No mobile game has ever earned a billion so fast.

Last week, China began testing the CAID identifier — the local equivalent of IDFA, which allows you to bypass Apple‘s new privacy policy. It was developed with the support of the government by the Chinese Advertising Association (CAA), which includes the largest technology companies in the country. Marketing expert Eric Seufert (Eric Benjamin Seufert) told in detail what threatens Apple with the appearance of such a tool. We have chosen the main thing from the…

Cyberpunk 2077 sold well at the start, but now digital sales of the title are falling rapidly. According to analysts of M Science, in the first quarter of this year (will end on March 31) CD Projekt RED will be able to sell only 500 thousand copies of the game in “digital”.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many things, including the sources of game downloads in the App Store. Referral links now play a decisive role, and not a search in the store, as it was before 2020. The analytical company Sensor Tower writes about this in a new report.

GameRefinery has published a large study of the American social casino market. The dominance of slots in this category continues — they account for most of the total revenue. Analysts also talked about the main trends and mechanics that distinguish social casinos from other genres.The main thing from the report

Sensor Tower analysts in a recent study decided to see how the mobile puzzle genre was doing in 2020. It turned out that it was not bad. During the year, US gamers left more than $4.6 billion in such games. Among the highest-grossing projects, two games from Playrix were noted at once (and another one became the leader in downloads).

How many gamers are there in Russia who want to work in the gaming industry? What areas are they interested in? What do their parents think about it? — Kaspersky Lab decided to answer such questions together with the analytical company Savanta.

The chess boom continues in Twitch. In February, the hours of views of streams on the chess theme jumped 21 times compared to last year. This was largely due to the success of the TV series “The Queen’s Move” released at the end of October.

By the end of February App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Sensor Tower analysts have prepared a report on the most profitable mobile games of last month. PUBG Mobile became the February leader at the box office, which together with its Chinese version of Game For Peace earned $ 250 million. Also in the top of the best was the project of the Russian Playrix.

Even five months after the release of Genshin Impact remains one of the highest-grossing mobile games in the world. According to analysts, during this time she collected $ 874 million only in the App Store and Google Play.

The analytical company Sensor Tower told how things were with mobile genres in 2020. Hyper-casual games turned out to be the most successful in terms of downloads, but RPG projects got the most money again.

ASOMobile analytics service has published the final report on the mobile market for 2020. The company talked about the most profitable countries, as well as the highest-grossing applications and game categories in different stores. The material also contains data on the Russian market.General data on stores

Service Team Checkaso analyzed how effectively popular mobile projects attract organic traffic in different countries. Among the selected games are Among Us, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Shortcut Run and others.Checkaso took the most popular mobile games of 2020 as the basis of its research (according to Sensor Tower).