Our research October 3, 2022

How much do game developers earn in Cyprus? — research results (UPDATED 2)

In what currency and how much they get in the Russian-speaking game dev in Cyprus. These and many other questions are answered in the salary study of the Cypriot gaming industry App2Top.ru and Talents In Games.

News October 3, 2022

Insider: 343 Industries will develop games on Unreal Engine 5

The fact that the developers of Halo decided to change the engine was announced by Jez Corden, editor-in-chief of the Windows Central portal.

News October 3, 2022

DappRadar: since the beginning of the year, NFT sales have fallen by 75%

Not everything is good in the NFT market. According to the estimates of the DappRadar platform, in the third quarter of 2022, total sales of non-interchangeable tokens amounted to $3.4 billion. This is $5 billion less than a quarter ago, and $9.1 billion less than in the first quarter.

Analytics October 3, 2022

AppMagic: the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of September 2022

By the end of September App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

News October 3, 2022

Cyberpunk 2077 fans have created a petition demanding the development of a second story supplement

“The community formed around Cyberpunk 2077 deserves a second addition. We were promised it from the very beginning,” the petition says. In less than a day, 9,195 people signed it.

News October 3, 2022

Odin developers: Valhalla Rising are preparing to enter the stock exchange

Lionheart Studios has announced that it will hold an IPO in November. It will be held on the South Korean KOSDAQ exchange. As the studio hopes, during the initial placement it will be able to attract 4.1-6 billion rubles, or about $2.8-4.4 million.

News October 3, 2022

Bloomberg: Sony is going to produce 2 million copies of PS VR2 by next March

Bloomberg sources claim that the company has already started mass production of a new VR headset. But according to them, Sony may adjust the plan depending on how well the PS VR2 will sell.

News October 3, 2022

Owlcat Games has not received money from sales of Pathfinder: Kingmaker since 2019

A representative of Owlcat Games told about this in the official Discord studio. He recalled that in 2019, the creators of Pathfinder: Kingmaker withdrew from MY.GAMES and lost the rights to the game.

Games October 3, 2022

Steam sales chart: the most earning game of the week was FIFA 23

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 39th week of the year.

News October 3, 2022

The main thing for the weekend (October 1-2)

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation announced the importance of regulating in—game currencies, Tencent decided to change its investment strategy, and ZA/UM studio lost several key developers of Disco Elysium, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

News September 30, 2022

Media: Kojima offered to make the continuation of Death Stranding an exclusive Stadia, but Google did not agree

The fact that Google refused to cooperate with the game designer, the publication 9to5Google reports. According to his sources, the company did not believe in the success of single-player games.

News September 30, 2022

Apple’s South Korean office was searched. The reason is the high commission of the App Store

The antimonopoly Authority of South Korea suspects that Apple charges developers a commission of 33% rather than 30%.

News September 30, 2022

Total downloads of Wildlife Studios games exceeded 3 billion

The company did not tell which titles had the most downloads.

News September 30, 2022

Bloomberg: Tencent is no longer the most expensive public company from China

She lost the title to the manufacturer of alcoholic beverages Kweichow Moutai.

News September 30, 2022

In the third quarter of 2022, Android accounted for 57% of advertising expenses for hyper-casual games. This is a record

This figure was named in a recent report by the Tenjin data attribution service.

News September 30, 2022

In South Korea, a class action lawsuit was filed against Kakao Games

Users of the game Uma Musume: Pretty Derby appealed to the court. According to Sedaily, initially more than seven thousand gamers wanted to participate in the trial, but so far only 201 people have been allowed to participate.

News September 30, 2022

Google may not have informed the developers of games for Stadia about plans to close the service

On September 29, Google announced that it was going to close Stadia due to low popularity, but it seems that it forgot to warn game developers about it. At least some of them learned about the company’s plans from the news.

News September 30, 2022

Activision Blizzard has updated the lawsuit against the sellers of cheats for Call of Duty

Now Activision Blizzard wants to get all the money that the EngineOwning portal earned from trading cheats for the publisher’s games.

News September 30, 2022

A tester from Activision Blizzard called on the US authorities to deal with crunches in the gaming industry

Amber La Macchia voiced such a proposal during a speech at the summit held by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). She pointed out that many game developers consider crunch a minor problem and perceive it as something inevitable. However, recycling seriously affects the quality of life.

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How much do game developers earn in Cyprus? — research results (UPDATED 2)

Insider: 343 Industries will develop games on Unreal Engine 5

DappRadar: since the beginning of the year, NFT sales have fallen by 75%

AppMagic: the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of September 2022

Cyberpunk 2077 fans have created a petition demanding the development of a second story supplement

Odin developers: Valhalla Rising are preparing to enter the stock exchange

Bloomberg: Sony is going to produce 2 million copies of PS VR2 by next March

Owlcat Games has not received money from sales of Pathfinder: Kingmaker since 2019

Steam sales chart: the most earning game of the week was FIFA 23

The main thing for the weekend (October 1-2)

Media: Kojima offered to make the continuation of Death Stranding an exclusive Stadia, but Google did not agree

Apple’s South Korean office was searched. The reason is the high commission of the App Store

Total downloads of Wildlife Studios games exceeded 3 billion

Bloomberg: Tencent is no longer the most expensive public company from China

In the third quarter of 2022, Android accounted for 57% of advertising expenses for hyper-casual games. This is a record

In South Korea, a class action lawsuit was filed against Kakao Games

Google may not have informed the developers of games for Stadia about plans to close the service

Activision Blizzard has updated the lawsuit against the sellers of cheats for Call of Duty

A tester from Activision Blizzard called on the US authorities to deal with crunches in the gaming industry