Electronic Arts has submitted a report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 (ended December 31). The company talked about the success of its key titles and increased revenue to $1.6 billion. However, its net profit fell by 39%.Key data

Newzoo analysts have found out that Saudi Arabia is very fond of video games. More than three-quarters of the country’s online population consider themselves gamers. At the same time, the lion’s share of players chooses mobile.

Sony has shared the results of the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). During the reporting period, the revenue of the company’s gaming division exceeded $8 billion, and PlayStation 5 sales amounted to 4.5 million copies.Key data

The Swedish Embracer Group holding continues to grow actively. Today, the company announced three major acquisitions at once. Below is the main thing about transactions.

Released three years ago, Beat Saber can still compete for the title of one of the most popular rhythm games for virtual reality. Studio Beat Games reported the sale of over 4 million copies of the title and 40 million songs from the DLC.

Privacy tokens do not guarantee the security of personal data of iOS users. The media found out that Apple does not always verify the authenticity of app labeling. A number of developers have already taken advantage of this loophole.

Social casino developer Playstudios has decided to enter the stock market by merging with SPAC. Thanks to the upcoming deal, the company’s valuation will exceed $1 billion.This was reported by Bloomberg last week, and now the information has been confirmed by Playstudios itself.

Apple has updated the guidelines for publishing apps in the App Store. Among other things, the changes affected subscription services, donations for developers and application descriptions.

App Annie has published the top 52 highest-grossing mobile publishers in the world according to the results of the previous year. Playrix is in 3rd place, Mail.Ru Group on the 51st.

The analytical company SuperData has published a report on sales of VR devices for the fourth quarter of 2020. Oculus Quest 2 is leading by a large margin, which was bought by over 1 million people.Oculus Quest 2, which went on sale in October last year, sold 1 million copies in three months.

This month Blizzard will host the BlizzCon Festival, which will be held online for the first time. The company revealed details of the free event and promised to show several “epic announcements”.

Another Google project was under attack. The corporation announced that it was discontinuing game development for Stadia and closing internal studios. The platform itself will continue to work for now, but without exclusives.

The launch of the PlayStation 5 in Japan turned out to be a record low, and local players were dissatisfied with the company’s increased attention to the western market. However, Platinum Games studio is confident that Sony’s new strategy will not affect the attitude of Japanese developers to the platform in any way.Atsushi Inaba, the head of Platinum Games, spoke about this in an interview with Video Games Chronicle.

Nexters, a publisher and developer of mobile games based in Russia, becomes a public company. It enters the market not through an IPO, but through a merger with the SPAC firm Kismet Acquisition One. After the transaction is completed in the second quarter of 2021, Nexters shares will be traded on the Nasdaq exchange.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, announced on the social network Clubhouse about the latest achievements of his startup Neuralink. His scientists implanted a wireless chip into the monkey’s brain, thanks to which the animal can play Pong with the power of thought.

Sony continues to selectively abandon the exclusivity of some of its titles. The MLB baseball simulator The Show 21, which was previously released only on PlayStation, will also appear on Xbox for the first time. This is hinted at, among other things, by the cover of the game merged into the network.The covers of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox One versions of the game were shared by a well-known insider Anerdydad.

Valve is on the verge of a new trial. This time, Steam owners are accused of “abusing the market power of the platform.” They say that the company prohibits developers from lowering the prices of their games in other digital stores.

Nintendo has shared the results for three fiscal quarters (April — December 2020). The company managed to increase all key indicators. Its revenue for nine months exceeded $ 13 billion, and digital sales doubled.General data for three quarters

There are only a few weeks left before the introduction of new rules regarding IDFA. Apple said that the privacy policy on its platform will take effect immediately after the release of the iOS 14 beta update.