Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery earned $300 million by its third anniversary, and its combined downloads in the App Store and Google Play amounted to 82 million. Such conclusions were shared by Sensor Tower analysts.

Today, the concept of metaverses in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly popular. Microsoft reported that the authors of content for Minecraft have already earned over $350 million on it. And individual game developers for Roblox earn hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars a year. We tell you what metaverses are and why developers are actively investing in them.

Hyper-casual publisher Rollic Games, part of Zynga, has announced a new purchase. The Turkish studio Uncosoft — the authors of the famous TikTok “runner in heels” High Heels! – passed into his hands.

The story with commissions launched by Epic Games continues to gain momentum. This time in the role of the “destroyer of tranquility” — Microsoft. The company announced that from August 1, the commission of the Windows Store app store will decrease from 30% to 12%. This will only affect games.

iOS users spent the least in the game. The main part of the revenue was generated by console players. The PlayStation 4 gamers were the most generous.

The family of Scapes projects, whose total box office for last March alone amounted to $ 115 million, has arrived. Playrix has announced the release of the casual title Farmscapes, which was developed by the authors of Treasures of Montezuma 3 and Gods&Glory.

They are wanted: a motion designer at Playrix, a community manager at Plarium and a technical game designer at Kefir.

On the eve of the Game Developers Conference 2021 (to be held on July 19-23), the organizers shared a study on the state of the video game industry. They interviewed over three thousand developers about their preferred platforms, working in a pandemic, the need for gaming unions and the fairness of the commission size in stores.

The gaming brand MY.GAMES has reported on the results of the first quarter. During the reporting period, the company earned $148 million, which accounted for 39% of all consolidated revenue Mail.ru Group. The lion’s share of earnings still falls on mobile projects.Key data

Popular video blogger Vlad Paper opens the game publishing house RedTower. His company is ready to provide any project with guaranteed organic matter of 2 million units. How it works — in conversation with App2Top.ru Ruslan Voronetsky, Business Development Director of A4 Group of companies, who manages the blogger’s non-YouTube businesses, as well as Nikolay Voronkovich, CEO of RedTower publishing house, told.

Minsk-based Vizor, which previously specialized in casual games for mobile, has introduced hardcore multiplayer PvP action for “big” platforms. It’s called Blood of Heroes and, judging by the first trailer, is made in the spirit of For Honor and the latest God of War.

South Korean publisher Nexon became the first gaming company to invest in bitcoin. He bought 1,717 bitcoins at the rate of $58.2 thousand apiece, spending $ 100 million on them. The costs amounted to almost 2% of the publisher’s total funds.

Sony shared the report for the fiscal year (ended March 31). He became the best in the history of the company’s gaming direction. Revenue exceeded $24 billion, PlayStation 5 shipments approached 8 million, and the total number of games sold for the year was almost 400 million copies.The revenue of the entire company for the year amounted to $8.9 trillion ($81.7 billion), and operating profit — ¥971.9 billion ($8.9 billion).

The developer and publisher of social casinos Huuuge Games has decided to diversify its gaming portfolio. The company acquired the rights to the free-play match-3 game Traffic Puzzle from the Polish studio Picadilla. The purchase amount is $38.9 million.

Microsoft has published a report for the third fiscal quarter (ended March 31). The company is seeing growth in all directions. The period was particularly successful for the gaming industry: its revenue exceeded $ 3.5 billion, and console sales jumped by 232%.Key data for the quarter

Hasbro, which owns Wizards of the Coast, has announced the use of NFT technology to develop its brands. The company did not specify the details, but we are talking about Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and other franchises.Magic: The Gathering Arena

Russia’s largest bank “Sber” will undertake the development and publication of video games. To do this, he launched the “Sber Games” direction within the framework of the subsidiary company “Sberintertainment“. Alice Chumachenko, founder and former CEO of Game Insight, became the co-founder and CEO of the gaming business.

Polish studio People Can Fly has already made its second purchase in the last few days. This time we are talking about Canadian outsourcers Game On Creative, who are engaged in motion capture, cinematic videos, animation and audio.

Apple has problems in Germany. Numerous German advertisers are dissatisfied with iOS 14.5 released on Monday and the new privacy policy that was launched on the platform after that. Now the corporation will be checked by the local Federal Antimonopoly Agency.