The cooperative survival about Vikings Valheim became the leader of sales on Steam, and the peak online game exceeded 130 thousand users. This is despite the fact that the title appeared in the early access store less than a week ago.

Last week, the authors of Borderlands joined the Embracer Group. According to rumors, Microsoft was interested in buying Gearbox before the Swedish holding. That’s just among the conditions was the resignation of the head of the studio Randy Pitchford (Randy Pitchford).

Sony now owns a small stake in the studio From Software, known for the Dark Souls series. This happened as a result of the creation of an alliance with the developer’s parent company.This became known from the quarterly report of Kadokawa Corporation Holding, which has owned From Software since 2014.

Unity shared the results of Thursday’s fiscal quarter (ended December 31). It turned out to be a record in several indicators at once. The company earned $220 million, and the MAU of applications on its engine exceeded 2.5 billion.Key data for the fourth quarter

What will happen to the mobile advertising market after Apple pulls the switch responsible for IDFA in iOS 14? Tenjin Marketing Director Roman Garbar plans to share the answer to this question at his presentation at WN Winter 2021.

Wanted: creative artist at Matryoshka Games, marketer at ZiMAD, Unity developer at Deus Craft and game designer at WN Media Group.

In the new Indie Cup season, you can win full funding for the game. The judges will be Kefir, CD Projekt Red, Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Wargaming, Humble Bundle and other companies.

Activision Blizzard shared last year’s financial results. The publisher’s revenue during this time exceeded $ 8 billion.  Half of this amount was brought by the Activision division. All thanks to Call of Duty.

Consisting of veterans of the gaming industry, Mountaintop studio has attracted $ 5.5 million in investments to develop its first project. It is headed by the co-founder of Oculus, and the company itself works completely remotely.Mountaintop managed to raise funds from an unnamed group of investors, friends and family members of the developers.

Latitude Studio has attracted $3.3 million in investments thanks to the success of its AI Dungeon text sandbox. All the plots in the game are generated by artificial intelligence, and its creator is confident that the development of this technology will help reduce the budgets of the development of AAA titles by hundreds of times.The main investor of Latitude was the venture fund NFX.

China’s gaming market has overflowed with mobile developers, SCMP believes. Competition in the country has intensified, and Chinese companies have increasingly begun to look towards the West. Titles based on famous franchises like “Harry Potter”, “The Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones” help to achieve popularity among European players.

Tale of Immortal is probably a new gaming phenomenon from the Middle Kingdom. It is available only in Chinese and is in early access, but the number of simultaneous players of the project on Steam has already exceeded 170 thousand people.Tale of Immortal is an RPG from Lighting Games studio based on Chinese mythology and philosophy.

More contests for game developers! Cloud provider G-Core Labs has announced its own competition. It is focused exclusively on indie games with an online component.

Despite the release of a major off-season update, online Fall Guys continues to fall. Now it has dropped below 12 thousand simultaneous players, which is several times less than the peak values.The peak online Fall Guys for 24 hours was 11681 people, according to SteamDB.

Yesterday, Creative Assembly officially announced Total War: Warhammer III. Despite the fact that the release of the game is scheduled for the end of the year, it almost immediately became the leader of sales on Steam.

Match-3 game Project Makeover from the creators of Matchington Mansion continues to gain cash. In January, its American revenue exceeded $20 million, beating several titles of Playrix and King.The analytical company AppMagic drew attention to this.

American screenwriter Clayton Haugen sued Activision Blizzard. He stated that the company stole the appearance of his character for the image of Mara, a girl soldier from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

AppLovin marketing platform is on the way to another big deal. The company has agreed to acquire the Berlin-based Adjust, specializing in mobile analytics, for $1 billion.

We continue the mini-series of interviews within the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the game market. This time we talked with Roman Zhikharev, QA Director at G-Core Labs.