Another participant in the conference “Game Industry” is Kirill Zolovkin, founder of the Heart Core studio. During his speech, he discussed the main mistakes made by PC game producers that affect project revenues.

Torn Away is an adventure game telling about the journey of a ten—year-old girl from Germany home during World War II. Although the game received 96% positive reviews on Steam and 85 out of 100 on Metacritic, its launch turned into a failure.

The original initiative was taken by the developer and publisher of mobile games Azur Games. He launched a relocation program for independent gaming teams. For his services, the publisher is going to take “a stipulated percentage of the studio project’s profit.”

The mobile application growth platform Appodeal has announced a set of gaming products in the eponymous business accelerator. With the editors App2Top.ru the company shared what projects it is primarily interested in today.

A new deal on the market. ZiMAD announced a collaboration with Disney. The developer has received permission to release additional content based on the cartoons of the film studio for his game Magic Jigsaw Puzzles.

Raising funds for future sales is a common scenario in the mobile f2p games market. However, it also works with premium titles on Steam. That’s how the Russian role-playing blockbuster Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous received money for marketing. We talked about the mechanism of attraction and the deal with GamesBoost42, which acted as a financial partner of the game.

The analytical company Nielsen decided to close SuperData. He does not talk about the reasons, but hints that the gaming data market is full.

Polish publisher All In Games has sold the rights to the Ghostrunner game franchise to the Italian publisher 505 Games. The transaction amount is relatively small. IP was estimated at €5 million.

Yesterday’s announcement of the new strategy had a negative impact on CD Projekt shares. Analysts believe that it lacks specifics. Serkan Toto, CEO of the consulting firm Kantan Games, was one of the first to draw attention to the fall.

CD Projekt is expanding. The company announced the acquisition of the Canadian studio Digital Scapes, which it calls one of its key partners. In particular, she participated in the development of Cyberpunk 2077.

On March 30, the Polish holding CD PROJEKT presented a new development strategy. Its key goal is to transform the game studio so that it can simultaneously develop several AAA games.

The world leader buys a local indie studio a week after a new law is passed in the United States, which strikes at all public Chinese companies.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) has reported on finances for 2020. She earned $266.5 million. Most of the amount — $158.9 million — came as royalties for the use of the brand by third-party companies. Video games have become a key source of these revenues.

The Playrix group of companies has become larger. Ukrainian Boolat Games joined it under a new name. Now it’s called Boolat Play.

The publisher of hyper-casual games SayGames has achieved 2 billion downloads in 2 years of operation, releasing 47 games. At the same time, he works with developers according to a scheme that is not the most standard for a niche. Instead of focusing on CTR, the publisher is looking for strong teams.

Nexters, a publisher and developer of mobile games based in Russia, becomes a public company. It enters the market not through an IPO, but through a merger with the SPAC firm Kismet Acquisition One. After the transaction is completed in the second quarter of 2021, Nexters shares will be traded on the Nasdaq exchange.

Unexpected news. In the city on the Neva River, on the basis of the Plamee studio, the daughter of an American game publisher — Tilting Point will appear. Now there is a search for employees.

The price of CD Projekt shares began to plummet after Sony removed Cyberpunk 2077 from the PS Store. In just a day, the Polish studio immediately lost 20% in value.

Immediately after the opening of the exchange this morning, CD Projekt quotes experienced another drop. They fell to March values when it became known that the studio would start developing a new “Witcher” only after the release of Cyberpunk 2077.