A month ago, the network started talking that Microsoft plans to buy Discord for $ 10 billion. But it looks like the deal didn’t work out. According to The Wall Street Journal, the owners of Discord have changed their minds about selling the business to an American corporation or to anyone else.

Apple has announced the release date of iOS 14.5 — April 26, 2021. Recall that it is with this update that a new privacy policy will come into force on the platform, which will allow users to block the IDFA advertising identifier.

The Finnish studio Lightheart Entertainment, known for the mobile platformer Mr. Autofire, has attracted investments in the amount of $ 6.8 million. The company plans to spend these funds on developing games that combine elements of hyper-casual and midcore titles.

Pragma is a new BaaS platform for the development and support of game services. The startup raised an additional $12 million for its development. The founders of Pragma intend to create a universal solution that would help studios to operate complex cross-platform projects and not spend extra money on creating their own services.To date, the total amount of investments attracted by Pragma has amounted to $16.2 million, according to the VentureBeat portal.

In its annual report, Focus Home Interactive announced plans for further expansion. As part of this strategy, the company has created a special internal group that deals with M&A transactions. The first of them was the purchase of Streum On Studio, known for shooters in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.Necromunda: Hired Gun

The number of players in Call of Duty: Warzone continues to grow. The user base of the Activision Blizzard shooter has surpassed the mark of 100 million people.

The Chinese video game market is considered the largest and one of the fastest growing in the world. Experts suggest that in 2021, it will account for almost a third of the global revenue of the gaming industry.

Since its foundation, Techland has remained a closed company. However, now the developers of Dying Light have become a “joint stock company”. This may indicate that the company is preparing to enter the stock exchange.Dying Light 2

Wanted: game designer/screenwriter at Friday’s Games, advertising monetization manager at Belka Games and project manager at RJ Games.

Indie game marketing specialist Logan Williams decided to find out if there was a “race of concessions” on Steam in 2015-2020. In other words, did the developers reduce the prices of new games because of competition with each other? We share the results.

Developers often make demos for Steam short in order to give players only a basic idea of the project and mechanics. However, some almost do not limit users by time, allowing them to play trial versions for hours. Excellent examples are the demos of Loop Hero and The Riftbreaker, which showed the effectiveness of such a strategy and interested the hardcore audience even before the release.Loop Hero

Facebook Gaming streaming platform shared data on the composition and motives of the audience of mobile games in the USA. Among other things, it turned out that about a third of American gamers are people over the age of 45. Many of them play, wanting to get rid of stress.

This is the ninth year that Wargaming St. Petersburg has been conducting internships. The studio attracts non-core young specialists on a competitive basis and trains them. The goal of the program is to grow professionals independently. We talked about the specifics of the internship with Anna Posazhennikova, head of HR at the St. Petersburg branch of Wargaming.

South Korea’s mobile market continues to grow. According to the local analytical company IGAWorks, in the first quarter of 2021, users spent a record $1.5 billion in games. The top projects in terms of revenue include various MMOs and, of course, Lineage M, which remains the highest—grossing mobile title in the country.Lineage 2M

In early April, Tenjin launched a solution that displays SKAdNetwork conversion values for free. What it is and why it is important in the post-IDFA era is in our material.

According to the results of the first quarter (ended March 31) Crash Bandicoot: On the Run hit the tops in downloads and revenue. To date, the King project has earned over $ 1.2 million, and the game has overcome the 20 million downloads mark faster than any other runner — including Subway Surfers. However, now the mobile “Crash” indicators have begun to decline.Revenue data

The leader of the last two weeks Outriders could not hold positions in the weekly list of the best—selling Steam games – the title went to the fifth line of the rating. This time the first place was taken by the cooperative It Takes Two. Also in the top 10 was the addition Stellaris: Nemesis, released four days ago.

In the United States, the revenue of the gaming market is growing for the 13th month in a row, according to analysts at NPD Group. In March, the spending of American gamers on video games, hardware and accessories amounted to $5.6 billion — 18% more than a year ago. Among the best-selling titles were Monster Hunter: Rise and Outriders.

Experience working on icons for the game “Megapolis” in your column for App2Top.ru Ilya Klushin, a leading 2D artist at Social Quantum, shared this.