The Shadow Fight Arena game from Nekki and Banzai Games studios was selected by Netflix for integration into the new Jupiter’s Legacy series, which is based on the superhero comic book series of the same name. Nekki Business Development Director Nikita Korzhavin told in his column on App2Top.ru how does the company manage to “appear on TV” and does it have a chance to create its own series based on the Shadow Fight universe.

Proceedings on the case of harassment in Ubisoft are due to begin this month. The company assures that it has taken many measures to improve the corporate culture and continues to work on correcting the situation. However, some employees claim that nothing has changed at Ubisoft, since the management still covers individual managers.Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

The analytical company Niko Partners calculated that by mid—May 2021, Tencent had managed to conclude over 50 deals with gaming companies. This is already 1.6 times more than in the whole of 2020, and five times more than in 2019. In their new study, analysts told what forces the Chinese colossus to invest so actively in the industry.

MY.GAMES has compiled a portrait of a Russian gamer by the end of 2020. To do this, the company conducted a survey in which about two thousand players aged 15 to 44 years took part. According to the results of the survey, it turned out that the majority of gamers in Russia are men (59%).

Bad Robot Games, the gaming division of the J. J. Abrams film company, has closed a Series B funding round. The studio received more than $40 million from investors, including Tencent.

Several American publications spoke at once about the situation around the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Some of the publications later disappeared from the sites. IGN employees, whose post was also deleted, wrote an angry letter to the leadership demanding the return of a note calling for help to the Palestinians. Other representatives of the gaming industry also reacted to this.How did it all start?

Accendo Capital, one of Remedy‘s investors, has sold 500,000 shares of the Finnish hits forge to Tencent. This is 3.8% of Remedy’s outstanding shares and votes.

Wanted: SMM manager at WN Media Group, technical art director at Awem Games and lead narrative designer at MYTONA.

During the court proceedings, Phil Schiller, former vice president of marketing at Apple, spoke about the launch of the App Store. He recalled that the first iPhone was released in 2007 and initially only Apple‘s own applications worked on it (the rest could be opened through the Safari browser). However, due to numerous attempts by developers to hack a smartphone, the company decided to tighten control and launch an official store in 2008.

In 2019, $400 billion worth of physical goods were sold through the App Store. By them, Apple means buying things on Amazon, food delivery, taxi, etc. Despite the impressive turnover of funds, the company claims that it does not charge a commission on such transactions. According to her, unlike digital purchases or subscriptions, here she cannot guarantee either the quality or whether the consumer will receive his order at all.

Game Taco has announced the acquisition of the publisher WorldWinner, which allows users to place bets and earn real money in mobile and browser games on popular quizzes and IP. The previous owner of the company was Sony. Now Game Taco and WorldWinner will work together to develop a single platform for organizing gaming tournaments.Game Taco announced this yesterday in an official press release.

The VERSUS.legal law firm continues a series of articles on jurisdictions for doing business. She examines the conditions for opening and operating a company in the most popular regions and tries to answer frequently asked questions about relocation. This time we are talking about the state of Delaware.

The Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) costs Apple an average of $50 million. This was stated during the trial by Phil Schiller. He also noted that the costs of its implementation are not taken into account in the category of operating expenses of the App Store.

Most of the content in the App Store is distributed for free. Phil Schiller estimates that about 84% of all applications in the store can be downloaded without payment. Speaking about the games in the App Store, he added that 75% of them are fully fritupley. In another 17%, gamers need to buy in-game items to unlock content. 6% of titles are paid. 2% work by subscription.

Apple continues to make arguments why services such as xCloud should not appear in the App Store. Now she stressed that gaming streaming services are fickle, which cannot be said about video platforms like Netflix. The games in them are like separate applications, interactive and constantly changing. Despite the fact that Netflix also has interactive content. For example, the movie “Black Mirror: Bandashmyg”.

At the end of April, the launch of the Summoners War: Lost Centuria mobile battler from Com2uS took place. The South Korean company reported that in the first 10 days since the release, the game’s revenue exceeded $ 4 million.Com2uS announced this on its official website.

Litigation with Apple does not prevent Epic Games from suing other companies. She accused the manufacturer of AR-glasses Nreal of violating the trademark “UNREAL”. They say that the name of the company is too similar to the name of the Unreal Engine, and this can confuse consumers.

Today it became known about the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, which may also affect WB Games. There are no specifics on this issue yet, but some media outlets report that the Warners gaming division will be divided into separate studios, and not all of them will come under the wing of the new company.Mortal Kombat 11

How distributed project work is built in the MS-1 mobile development studio (Wargaming), — in his column on App2Top.ru told Vadim Gilvarg, program manager of World of Tanks Blitz.