We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Timur Galyamov, head of game production at the publishing house Super.com .

Roblox has been criticized more than once for exploiting teenagers. However, the internal economy of the popular platform hides much more tricks for young users. The People Make Games channel talked about the black market of cosmetic items and explained in detail why the Roblox trading platform resembles gambling and the stock market.

In November, the earnings of the US gaming market decreased. NPD Group analysts found out that over the last fall month, Americans spent $6.3 billion on video games, hardware and accessories — 10% less than a year ago.

There is more for one investment fund specializing in games. The venture company C2 Ventures and the blockchain platform Gala Games have opened their own fund for $ 100 million. The money will be invested in blockchain projects.

The other day on App2Top.ru there was a live broadcast with Anton Vinogradov, co—founder of the Samustai studio, which is engaged in porting indie titles to the console and publishing them. We talked in detail about the process of transferring games, optimization and the difficulties of working with different platforms. They also touched upon business processes, including revenue distribution, features of console marketing and sales.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Vladimir Obruchev, the head of the game direction at the Bombora publishing house.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Elena Burda and Dmitry Gritsenko, General Manager and Product Director at Plarium Ukraine.Elena Burda and Dmitry Gritsenko

The Halo Infinite story campaign, released on December 8, proved to be excellent in sales. Last week, she took the first place in the Steam bestseller chart, displacing the Icarus survival simulator from the creator of DayZ. Also in the top ten best-selling games of the week were the shooters Thunder Tier One and GTFO.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Evgeny Sidorov, CEO at FreePlay.

The analytical company Niko Partners is confident that the video game market in India will increase threefold over the next four years.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Alexey Savchenko, the founder of Magnifier One.

At the last The Game Awards, Saber Interactive studio announced the sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The creation of a third-person shooter is handled by a division from St. Petersburg, and the head of the World War Z team heads the development.

On the morning of December 10, a large-scale ceremony of The Game Awards 2021 was held, at which the best games of the past year were awarded and new items were announced. Many gamers were satisfied with the show, but the stock market did not react to this. The share price of public companies whose games were shown on TGA has hardly changed.

Exactly a year ago, Cyberpunk 2077 was released. Due to numerous problems, CD Projekt shares have fallen by 54% during this time. At the same time, sales of the game are far from initially optimistic forecasts and may turn out to be unsatisfactory.Analysts expect the stock to fall by another 12% in the next 12 months, according to Bloomberg.

New details of Microsoft’s negotiations with Apple have become known from the published emails. For the sake of launching a cloud gaming service in the App Store, the company was ready to make a number of compromises. On iOS, among other things, AAA Xbox exclusives could appear. However, the negotiations have reached an impasse due to financial and technical differences.This was reported by The Verge with reference to documents related to the litigation between Apple…

Google has confirmed that it is going to move Android games to Windows soon. She has officially announced the desktop version of the Google Play Games app. The project is scheduled for release in 2022.

Kickstarter has announced plans to create a “decentralized future” for its platform. Next year it will switch to the blockchain protocol. The company’s decision was criticized by many indie developers, promising to switch to other crowdfunding platforms.Kickstarter told about its plans on the official website.

There is a replenishment in the series of metaverses. MYTONA has officially released its metaverse project, MYTONAVERSE, in softlonch. This is a social sandbox where users can create their own worlds, chat with friends and rebuild a virtual environment for themselves.

Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands has summed up the financial results of the first three quarters of 2021. The company specializing in NFT is doing well. Among other things, she said that from September to November, the value of her digital assets increased more than fivefold — to 22.57 billion Australian dollars ($15.87 billion).