Not all gaming companies can boast of great success. Electronic Arts summed up the results of the second fiscal quarter of 2021 (ended September 30). The publisher’s profit for this period decreased by 78% at once compared to last year.

A new game competition is in full swing right now. This time, HTML5 projects are on the wanted list. The winners will receive both cash prizes in the amount of $ 5 thousand to $ 10 thousand, and service ones. The acceptance of works will end this weekend.

Zynga has published a report for the third fiscal quarter of 2020, which in many ways became a record for it. During this period, the publisher earned $ 503 million, not least thanks to the studios purchased earlier.Key data for the third quarter

For another gaming company, 2020 turned out to be a success. In its latest report, the Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Entertainment shared its record achievements for the period from January to September. Among them — revenue of over a billion Swedish kronor ($ 117 million) and the growth of individual titles by 425%.

Indie horror Phasmophobia, which conquered the Steam chart and was created by one person, has sold over 2 million copies. Due to the great popularity, the developer had to postpone the full release and focus on finalizing the project.The success of Phasmophobia was told by its creator Dknighter, the founder of Kinetic Games studio and its sole developer.

Valve went to meet the game studios. Starting today, the Steam Playtest function has officially started working in her store. With its help, developers can invite users to test games without keys and external mailings.

While the developers of Among Us are in no hurry to localize the game into Chinese, its clone called Werewolf Among Us has become the most downloaded mobile title in the country. The project completely copied the mechanics of the original, changing only the setting.Screenshot from Werewolf Among Us

This year turned out to be the most successful for Pokémon GO by many indicators. In the last ten months alone, the game has earned $1 billion, and its total revenue has exceeded $4 billion, according to Sensor Tower.Niantic was able to achieve record figures for itself largely due to the timely response to the pandemic-related quarantine, allowing players to participate in events and catch Pokemon without leaving home.

Newzoo analysts have revised the forecast for the gaming industry for 2020 for the second time. Now they report estimated earnings of $174.9 billion — $15.6 billion more than expected.

Today, on November 3, after two years of development, Nekki, together with Banzai Games, launched a new game in the Shadow Fight — Arena universe for worldwide release. This is a mobile fighting game with synchronous PvP. Even at the “soft launch” stage, the game showed excellent retention.

In the first half of 2020, Russians spent $ 1.14 billion on games, Wargaming experts estimate. Mobile titles got the most money — they collected 43.5% of the total earnings of the Russian gaming market.

The company Azur Games, which previously specialized exclusively in mobile titles, announced the launch of its first project on consoles — battle royale Axes.io .

Wanted: Tableau developer at Murka Games, ASO manager at Kefir and Unity developer at MYTONA.

Hyper-casual publisher Voodoo has decided to make major changes regarding the testing of game prototypes. Now the publisher is ready to pre-evaluate the potential not only on iOS, but also on Android. He also published his new KPIs.

British publisher Curve Digital has announced the purchase of a second studio. She became an independent team from Vancouver IronOak Games, known for the 2018 game For The King.Curve Digital announced this on its website.

The case of banning the Chinese messenger WeChat in American stores is gaining momentum. This time, not only a group of app users will appear in court, but also Tencent itself.

Activision Blizzard has announced its intention to move all of its major franchises to mobile devices. This was influenced by the success of Call of Duty: Mobile, which earned $480 million in its first year.The company’s executives announced their plans during a conversation with investors, which traditionally took place after the publication of the quarterly report.

Polish CD Projekt RED fell by a quarter compared to August figures. It’s all about the next transfer of Cyberpunk 2077 and scandals with processing.

This year, major mobile publishers have been particularly active in the M&A market. Analysts from Sensor Tower studied the leaders in major genres over the past nine months in the United States and tracked how their positions were affected by deals to buy other studios.