Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was released today. Despite the initial skepticism, the game exceeded the expectations of many critics. Some even call it “the new standard for comic book video games.” However, there were some negative aspects. Most of all complain about the abundance of bugs and too simple fighting.

ironSource has agreed to purchase another marketing platform. This time she decided to acquire the Israeli company Bidalgo. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Goodgame Studio has decided to become an international mobile publisher. To do this, the German company announced the launch of an internal publishing direction. The first release of Goodgame as a publisher was the War Alliance strategy.

Wanted: M&A producer at Belka Games, tester at Matryoshka Games and UI designer at ZiMAD.

Roblox is preparing to attract additional investments. She announced that she would sell senior unsecured bonds worth $1 billion.

The analytical company Naavik, commissioned by Wooga Studio, conducted a study of the top 50 mobile puzzles in the Western market. The results showed that very few titles can boast of racial diversity and representation of LGBTQ+ representatives.

The Chinese giant ByteDance will not appear on the stock exchange until at least the end of 2022. According to the SCMP portal, TikTok‘s parent company has decided to wait until the new rules for regulating cyberspace are approved in China. Against the background of rumors, the largest shareholders of ByteDance began to get rid of their shares.

Apple has made changes to the App Store guidelines. One of the points concerns the lifting of the ban on informing users about alternative payment methods outside of iOS. This is a direct response to a class action lawsuit from developers that the company settled in August.In total, Apple changed three points of its rules on October 22.

Snap’s quarterly revenue exceeded $1 billion for the first time in history. However, this amount was still below forecasts. The company itself attributes this to changes in Apple’s policy and the loss of advertising revenue after the release of iOS 14.5.Snap told about this in the remarks to the financial report for the third quarter of 2021 (ended September 30).

There will be one less site for browser games. King has announced the closure of the Royal Games portal, which has been operating since 2003. The official reason is changes in web technologies. But the closure could also have been facilitated by an investigation by PayPal concerning gaming payments in certain countries.

ByteBrew is a new analytical platform created by former mobile developers. It provides completely free access to a whole set of solutions. Among them is the ability to track retention and all in—app purchases, as well as tools for measuring attribution and conducting A/B testing.Last week, the creators of ByteBrew shared details about their platform on Reddit.

On October 20, a space western from Alawar was released on Steam. The novelty is called They Always Run. Its unique feature is a hand—drawn visual style. We talked about how it was created with the producer and lead artist of the game Stepan Komarov.

Last week CD Projekt bought the American studio The Molasses Flood. She will develop a new project based on the original IP. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Zombie shooter Back 4 Blood continues to dominate the Steam bestseller chart. Last week, the game was the best-selling in the store for the second time in a row. New World has also been in the top three for the past five weeks — now it is in second place.

Visualization is an important tool in the hands of a narrative designer. With its help, you can quickly convey the idea to both the user and fellow developers. How to work with this tool — says HSE lecturer, writer and game screenwriter Sergey Chekmaev.

The gaming industry in the UK is experiencing a new upswing: large companies and publishers are buying British studios, as well as opening new branches in London and across the country. This year, Square Enix, EA and Activision Blizzard were among such companies.

Google continues to modernize its commission policy on Google Play. She announced that she would reduce the commission from 30% to 15% for all applications with subscriptions — immediately from the first day of use.

Traffic exchange between mobile projects is a common story. It’s a completely different matter — “draining” the audience from a PC project to a mobile game. Today it became known how NCSOFT approached this case on the international market.

Big news for Unity developers. The authors of the engine have launched the Unity Gaming Services platform for open testing. She “gathered under one roof” old and new tools for operating games built on Unity. Unity Technologies sees the task of the new tool as simplifying the development of cross-platform multiplayer games.