Not all gaming companies can boast of great success. Electronic Arts summed up the results of the second fiscal quarter of 2021 (ended September 30). The publisher’s profit for this period decreased by 78% at once compared to last year.

For another gaming company, 2020 turned out to be a success. In its latest report, the Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Entertainment shared its record achievements for the period from January to September. Among them — revenue of over a billion Swedish kronor ($ 117 million) and the growth of individual titles by 425%.

Valve went to meet the game studios. Starting today, the Steam Playtest function has officially started working in her store. With its help, developers can invite users to test games without keys and external mailings.

Newzoo analysts have revised the forecast for the gaming industry for 2020 for the second time. Now they report estimated earnings of $174.9 billion — $15.6 billion more than expected.

In the first half of 2020, Russians spent $ 1.14 billion on games, Wargaming experts estimate. Mobile titles got the most money — they collected 43.5% of the total earnings of the Russian gaming market.

Wanted: Tableau developer at Murka Games, ASO manager at Kefir and Unity developer at MYTONA.

Hyper-casual publisher Voodoo has decided to make major changes regarding the testing of game prototypes. Now the publisher is ready to pre-evaluate the potential not only on iOS, but also on Android. He also published his new KPIs.

The case of banning the Chinese messenger WeChat in American stores is gaining momentum. This time, not only a group of app users will appear in court, but also Tencent itself.

Polish CD Projekt RED fell by a quarter compared to August figures. It’s all about the next transfer of Cyberpunk 2077 and scandals with processing.

Apple has added two new notification types to the App Store. Both are associated with subscriptions. At the same time, one of the old types of subscription status notifications will disappear from the store in March 2021.

This year, the Chinese mobile title Honor of Kings celebrates its fifth anniversary. In honor of the anniversary, Tencent shared a new achievement of the project — the DAU of the game has passed the milestone of 100 million.

Activision Blizzard did not have time to share successful results in the third quarter of 2020, as its CEO made an additional statement. It turns out that the company lacks two thousand employees to continue to close all production needs.

Activision Blizzard has reported for the third fiscal quarter of this year. The publishing house’s revenues came close to $ 2 billion, and the most successful titles of the publishing house were Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush.

Board games based on video games continue to attract a lot of attention from the audience. Next up is the adaptation of the Frostpunk urban planning simulator. In three weeks on Kickstarter, the authors of “nastolka” collected € 2.5 million. Despite the fact that the initial goal of the campaign was only € 200 thousand.

The Swedish Stillfront Group is preparing to acquire another studio. This time the company became interested in Everguild, specializing in mobile CCG.

The authors of Wasteland 3 reported on the success of the title. In two months, a million people have played the post—apocalyptic RPG – both buyers and subscribers of the Xbox Game Pass.

A collector’s edition of the diaries of the famous game designer Jordan Mechner has been published. Now readers can not only learn how Prince of Persia was created, but also see sketches of different stages of the game, author’s notes on the margins of pages and comments about the future of the story.

Jason Schreier, who wrote the bestseller “Blood, Sweat and Pixels”, presented his next work about the gaming industry — “PRESS RESET: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry”. Now he will tell you what happens to developers after the studios are closed.

Genshin Impact has become one of the largest launches in the history of mobile games. In its first month, the title raised $245 million. This is more than it was at the start of Fortnite, Lineage 2: Revolution and Fire Emblem Heroes.