Sensor Tower analysts spoke about the fastest growing themes, settings and artistic styles in mobile games in the USA. For example, projects about “traitors” were included in the list of leaders — only Among Us American gamers spent almost $8 million in the first half of 2021.

CD Projekt has published a financial report for the first half of 2021 (ended June 30). Revenue grew by almost 30%, but the company still does not disclose data on sales of specific games. CD Projekt also shared information about the next generation versions of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, refusing to name the exact release dates.

MY.GAMES company has become a partner of the Spanish The Breach Studios, which was founded by veterans of Ubisoft, 4A Games and Take-Two Interactive. She invested €3.5 million in the studio, in return receiving a minority stake and a control option.

Wanted: a leading game designer at Playrix, an art manager at Friday’s Games and a user engagement manager at Melsoft.

Mobile publisher Playtika makes its first purchase since entering the stock exchange. He announced an agreement with the Finnish studio Reworks, which developed a simulator of the designer Redecor. The maximum amount of the transaction may approach $600 million.

In July 2018, the French publisher Gameloft released a new part of its racing franchise. She became Asphalt 9: Legends. The analytical company App Annie has estimated that to date mobile gamers have spent over $100 million in this game.

The sequel to “Blood, Sweat and Pixels” by Jason Schreier is being prepared for publication in Russia. A new book about the dark side of video game development will go on sale on September 28.

South Korea has become the first country to legislatively limit the power of Apple and Google over mobile app stores. According to analysts, this could set a precedent.

Another project of Russian developers is conquering the world. The adventure card game Black Book has surpassed the mark of 100 thousand copies sold in 20 days since its release. Four times faster than the Desolate survival at the time, but still not as fast as some other domestic titles.

Neil Druckmann and Evan Wells, presidents of Naughty Dog, shared their opinions on the problem of crunches in the gaming industry. According to them, it is necessary to create comfortable conditions — including not prohibiting “passionate” developers from voluntarily working overtime to improve the project. However, studio bosses were criticized by industry colleagues for their position.

This weekend, the VR horror Phasmophobia once again hit the top ten most popular games on Steam. Its peak online exceeded 60 thousand people. There was more only in the premiere month.

The Chinese authorities have prepared another restriction. Starting in September, local children will be able to spend no more than three hours a week in online games. Moreover, it will be possible to play only at a strictly set time.

Apple has received a warning from the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia. It is connected with the ban on informing users about alternative payment methods in iOS applications. The FAS believes that the company is abusing its position in the market and demands to eliminate the violation by September 30.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of the Yakuza series, is close to leaving SEGA after 32 years at the company. According to media reports, the Japanese game designer’s next job will be NetEase. Thus, the Chinese giant wants to impose competition on Tencent in the Japanese console market.Toshihiro Nagoshi, photo: Jin Wang

Perhaps soon Chinese Internet giants will no longer be able to conduct IPOs in the United States. This initiative was taken by the Chinese authorities. They proposed to close access to the American stock exchange to all companies that have access to a large amount of data from Chinese users.

Now India is one of the fastest growing gaming markets not only in Southeast Asia, but also around the world. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, its turnover may soon reach $ 1 billion.According to analysts, the growth of the Indian video game market was influenced by the following factors:

There are strong changes in the Steam bestseller chart. There are almost no games left from the last time, except for HUMANKIND and Naraka: Bladepoint — the leaders of recent weeks. The Witch Queen supplement for Destiny 2 topped the chart, which recently opened pre-order.

Another mobile developer from the CIS is entering the market of console and PC games. Today at Gamescom, the announcement of the Spine PvP action – the first Nekki project for “big” platforms – took place. This is a cooperative PvP action game from the studio Banzai Games, known for the mobile series Shadow Fight and Vector.

On Steam, you can get a refund for the game if you spend less than two hours in it. Although this policy is used by many gamers, short game developers are not very happy with it. She forced the Russian indie developer Emika Games to leave the industry altogether.