Despite all the scandals around loot boxes, the Ultimate Team mode in sports games like FIFA remains one of the main sources of income for Electronic Arts. The company itself noted that it makes up a “significant part” of its revenue. Over the past year alone, EA has earned over $1.5 billion on it, which is almost 30% of the publisher’s total revenue.The exact revenue of the Ultimate Team mode became known from the annual…

The revenues of the American video game market have fallen after 13 months of growth, according to analysts at NPD Group. Iron sales suffered the most, which decreased by 30%. As for the games, FIFA 21 disappeared from the top twenty best-selling titles, but it included NieR: Replicant and Returnal.

CCP Games has launched an online course dedicated to human relationships and creating real connections through video games. It was prepared jointly with the University of Iceland and is based on the company’s experience in the development of EVE Online. The program is based on the stories of real players of the popular MMO.The course is called “Friendship Machines: Creating a New Type of Human Relationship” (Friendship Machine: Forming a New Type of Human Connection)…

Yesterday Sony held a presentation for investors, where it shared the main figures of the gaming direction and plans for the future. It turned out that PlayStation is going to “go beyond consoles” and focus, among other things, on ports for mobile and PC.

Together with the release of Unreal Engine 5, a technodemo was released in early access, demonstrating the new capabilities of the engine. The interactive scene looks impressive, but requires 100 GB of free space and at least 32 GB of RAM. This has given rise to discussions about the growing requirements for drives in new games.

Shanghai-based developer Lilith Games is moving beyond the mobile market for the first time. The company, known for the hits AFK Arena and Rise of Kingdoms, talked about its new game — the online free-play action Farlight 84. According to the developers, a unique “hunting” mode will help them compete with AAA battle royales on PC.

Sensor Tower analysts shared a report on the state of the mobile advertising market in the American App Store in 2020. Among other things, they noted that one of the main advertisers on the market is Playrix.

Epic Games has announced the pre-release of Unreal Engine 5. It is open for everyone to get acquainted and work. So far, the engine is available exclusively as part of early access.

Sensor Tower analysts told how things were going with the monetization of App Store games in 2020. Among the observations is the strengthening of the subscription model and the growth in the number of teams earning exclusively from advertising.

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The Liftoff marketing platform has prepared a large report on the state of the advertising market in the casual games segment. The company reviewed how CPI and ROAS indicators have changed over the year for different subgenres, platforms and regions, and also talked about the most popular advertising formats.The Liftoff study is based on data from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021.

At the beginning of this year, RPG and strategy confidently overtook other mobile genres in terms of revenue. This is not the first time this has happened. Sensor Tower analysts talked about the situation with these and other game genres in the first quarter of 2021.

GameAnalytics has announced the launch of a new analytical platform GameIntel. The platform provides access to data on key business metrics and allows you to compare games by genre and mechanics.It is integrated into the already existing benchmark service Benchmarks+ and monitors monthly:

Neither Epic Games nor Apple may get what they want as a result of court proceedings. This is indicated by the statements of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers). But whatever decision she makes, an appeal is “almost inevitable.”

Sony has announced plans to significantly expand the audience of its online and mobile services. To do this, the Japanese company will allocate over $18 billion, which will be used for strategic investments. They plan to develop gaming services, among other things.According to Reuters, Sony will allocate 2 trillion rubles (about $18.39 billion) for these purposes within three years.

As part of the expansion strategy, the French publisher Homa Games announced the opening of the first office in Ukraine. It will be located in Lviv, and the backbone of the team will be made up of former employees of Voodoo, Playgendary and other companies.Together with the opening of the Lviv office, Homa Games intends to attract more Ukrainian developers to its team.

Sensor Tower analytical company has shared a large report on the mobile market for the first quarter of 2021. It turned out that during this period, gamers spent $ 22.2 billion, which is 25% more than a year ago. We tell you what else the analysts found.

On the ArtStation platform, cases of cheating artists have become more frequent. Unknown attackers offer freelancers work on behalf of large gaming companies like Riot Games, Big Fish and 2K, and are tricked into paying for expensive hardware and software worth thousands of dollars. On May 24, Kaspersky Lab drew attention to the problem in its blog.

The trial between Epic Games and Apple ended yesterday. At the final four-hour meeting, the lawyers of both companies made their final arguments in the case. For example, about how the App Store monopoly looks in their eyes.