Voodoo announces the beginning of expansion into the casual games market. The French publisher acquired the Israeli studio Beach Bum. She specializes in board and card games for mobile platforms. Its monthly revenue exclusively from IAP can be about $4 million.

MOBA is one of the most monetary subcategories of mobile strategies. According to Sensor Tower, for the first half of the year, the total revenue of such titles amounted to $ 2 billion. Among the most successful projects were Honor of Kings, Brawl Stars and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

Indie game developers on the GameMaker Studio 2 engine have a simplified way to publish their projects. To do this, Opera launched the GXC platform. It will allow you to publish titles for free by exporting them from the engine directly to the browser.In the announcement, the company noted that this is the first step towards creating synergy between GameMaker Studio 2 and the Opera GX gaming browser.

Playco became the owner of Goodboy Digital, the developer of the PixiJS HTML5 engine. With its help, the startup plans to create multiplayer instant games. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Yesterday on App2Top.ru There was a live broadcast with Nexters co-founder Boris Herzovsky and Nexters Boost executive producer Max Postnikov. We talked about their new investment program, what selection criteria it has and how much money developers can get. We also discussed the situation on the gaming market in Russia and the CIS. We share a recording of the broadcast and an excerpt from it.

The showcase at the conference is one of the most accessible tools for promoting games. About the specifics of participating in it, — we talked with experienced developers in the light of the upcoming WN Moscow’21 (she is collecting applications from developers until Friday).

Analyst Daniel Ahmad told how the recent actions of the Chinese authorities may affect the local gaming industry. Due to the increased control over the industry, it will be much more difficult for developers to circumvent the current restrictions. And the state intends to close the last loopholes for them.Honor of Kings

In the first half of 2021, game developers spent more on attracting users than developers of any other mobile applications. They accounted for 50% of all UA costs. The marketing company Adjust told about this in its new research.

According to MY.GAMES, most often Russian gamers on PC, consoles and mobile devices spend money to buy in-game currency and items. But loot boxes from domestic players are not in great demand.Statistics on the Russian market based on data for 2020 were shared by the publication “RBC”.

Genshin Impact has been around for a year now, and it still holds the title of one of the highest-grossing mobile games. Sensor Tower analysts estimated that during the premiere year, the title earned $2 billion only in the App Store and Google Play.

On September 28, the official release of New World took place and the game immediately broke into the top position of Steam in terms of the number of players. The hype led to problems on the servers, long queues and departures.

Two weeks ago, South Korea banned Apple and Google from imposing their payment systems on mobile developers. But it seems that companies still do not follow this requirement. The Korean authorities are ready to wait until mid—October – they have given so much time to prepare a plan to comply with the new law.

There is one more investment project on the market. Nexters announced the launch of Boost. The company calls the initiative “a program to search for future blockbusters in the early stages.” Within its framework, the developer is ready to invest in external teams. We are talking about amounts from $ 500 thousand to $ 2.5 million.

A new issue appeared on Arzamas channel yesterday. It is dedicated to the history of games — starting with the forgotten entertainment of antiquity and ending with modern console titles. The video was made in collaboration with Kefir Studio. Both companies told App2Top.ru about a project that has been in production for more than a year.

In 2017 , the Mail.Ru Group has a gaming investment division — MY.GAMES Venture Capital (MGVC). Since then, it has managed to invest over 6 billion rubles in developers. A third of the amount went to Deus Craft.

Slava Lukyanenka, senior producer of CD Projekt RED, wrote a post about the systemic problems of education in game development. He shared his thoughts on why there are so many people with “faded eyes” among the graduates of the courses. This caused a discussion, which was joined by other Russian-speaking representatives of the gaming industry.Lukyanenka decided to speak out on this topic after talking with young developers.

Netflix bought its first game studio. She became the Night School Studio, known primarily for the mystical adventure game Oxenfree. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Wanted: a leading marketing manager at Friday’s Games, a game designer of children’s products in the “First Project” and a tester at Evrika Games.

The M&A boom continues in the gaming industry. Sensor Tower found out how the positions of mobile publishers in the United States have changed over the past eight months due to purchases by other companies, and named the largest publishers. Analysts looked at the situation in four mobile categories: puzzles, lifestyle, sports and hyper-casual.