Jason Schreier spoke about the situation with layoffs in the gaming industry. In his opinion, today specialists do not feel protected and can be out of work at any time — despite record revenues and sales. The journalist illustrated the problem with several vivid examples, and at the same time suggested ways to solve it.At the beginning of his article for Bloomberg, Schreyer recalls two important events of the first half of the year: the…

The online session Talents in Games: HR Conference 2021 will be held on May 25. This is the only conference focused exclusively on HR specialists of the gaming industry.

The Indian government has allowed PUBG Mobile to be re-launched in the country after nine months of banning the game. The developers announced that the start of pre-registration in a special version of the title for the Indian market will take place tomorrow, May 18.

The Spanish company Inditex, which owns the Zara and Pull&Bear brands, is considering new ways to attract an audience. Instagram Facebook and she is working on her first mobile game. Pacific Game

Indie publisher Devolver Digital is on the verge of entering the stock market. According to The Telegraph, the company intends to list on the London Stock Exchange. As a result, the publisher’s capitalization will amount to £1 billion ($1.4 billion).

Czech studio MADFINGER Games, known for the Shadowgun and Dead Trigger mobile shooters, has received investments worth €5 million ($6.08 million). The money was provided by Nuverse, the gaming division of the Chinese giant ByteDance.

The owners of PUBG have announced the purchase of a new studio. The South Korean company Krafton has signed a deal with Dreamotion — local developers of mobile games. The parties did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.

Released on Friday, May 14, Mass Effect Legendary Edition soared to the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Among other novelties in the top ten are the BIOMUTANT being prepared for release and the Endwalker add—on for FINAL FANTASY XIV, for which a pre-order has recently opened.

As stated by Roblox, this is consistent with the company’s vision of the metaverse concept. They say that Roblox users get into many virtual worlds where they can not only play or create their own projects, but also engage in other activities. For example, to hold virtual concerts.

App Annie has prepared a small report on the state of the hyper casual games market following the results of the first quarter. The fastest growing category was simulators, the number of downloads of which increased by almost 200% in annual terms.Key data for the first quarter

The PUBG developer shows the wonders of generosity. Krafton will provide a part of the shares to its employees. Moreover, this will affect not only personnel who are based in South Korea. Shares worth $89 million will be given to an international team. There were some nuances.

Yesterday, during the trial of Epic Games and Apple, expert witness Lorin Hitt shared statistics on paying players in Fortnite. It turned out that 24.2% of battle royale users made purchases in it.

This article is the first of a series of reviews of jurisdictions for doing business from the VERSUS.legal law firm. It deals with the conditions for opening and doing business in Cyprus, the country that first comes to mind for Russian businessmen who think “where can I open a company outside the CIS?“.

Almost two months ago, Australia refused to classify Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, which actually meant a ban on the sale of the game. However, now a special commission has revised the decision and assigned an 18+ rating to the Estonian project, despite the harsh vocabulary and touching on topics like addiction.On May 11, the Australian Classification Review Board, which evaluates games, films and text materials, revised the rating of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut…

Lorin Hitt from the Wharton School of Business tried to prove that the browser can circumvent the ban on billing in the App Store. He stated that for at least eight games from the list of the top 25 projects at the box office in the store, you can buy content outside of iOS.

At the beginning of the year, Google Stadia began to have big problems after the closure of internal development studios and the departure of Jade Raymond. Despite this, the company assures that the platform feels great and continues to develop. Among the arguments are regular replenishment of the library of games and cooperation with indie studios. However, Google still doesn’t say anything about the size of the service’s audience.About the current state of Stadia in…

There aren’t many mobile franchise games on the American market. Only 9% of titles relate to products made under license. At the same time, they account for 23% of the earnings of the entire mobile in the USA.

The services of the Sber ecosystem analyzed how Russians spent money during the May holidays. It turned out that the turnover of payments in gaming services that accept payments through UCASSA has almost doubled.Data on the behavior and payments of Russian video game lovers was shared by the press service of YUMOPEU.

Xbox Game Studios will now work closely with the Chinese TiMi Studios, the “daughter” of Tencent and the developers of Honor of Kings and Call of Duty: Mobile. We are talking about creating game content, but both companies have not yet disclosed the details of the partnership.This became known today from the official press release.