Two days ago, GSC Game World studio announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will have its own metaverse with NFT. However, a barrage of criticism from the gaming community forced the company to abandon this idea.

French Voodoo has decided to pay more attention to mobile blockchain games. She announced that next year she will invest $200 million in such projects. The money will go both to finance third-party teams and to create internal studios.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Konstantin Ivanov, brand director of AdQuantum.

Last week, Ubisoft announced Quartz, a platform where gamers can trade “NFT cosmetics” for the company’s AAA titles. The first items have already appeared on the site, but users are not ready to pay a lot for them. The largest amount they agree to give is ꜩ14 ($65.56).

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Nikita Guk, CEO and co-founder of Hoopsly.

OpenBCI has raised funds to fund the further development and improvement of its neurocomputer interfaces for gaming, health and other areas. One of the investors was the venture capital firm of Marc Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games.In addition to Merrill’s NaHCO3 company, Bitkraft Ventures and re.Mind have invested in OpenBCI.

CD Projekt managed to reach an agreement with investors on the settlement of a class action lawsuit related to the problematic release of Cyberpunk 2077. They will waive all claims against the company and members of the management board, and in return will receive compensation in the amount of $ 1.85 million.CD Projekt announced this in a new report on its official website.

Swedish Embracer Group is preparing for another major purchase. The company has announced plans to acquire Asmodee, a French publisher of board games and video games based on them. If the negotiations are successful, the Embracer Group will become the largest gaming group in Europe.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki.

GSC Game World has announced a collaboration with the DMarket platform to create its own metaverse. In the upcoming shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl, NFTs will appear, and token holders will be able to become NPCs inside the game itself.The project was named S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Metaverse.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Robert Bagratuni, the head of Mundfish.

The Finnish company Supercell has decided to go beyond mobile. She announced that she is launching a new studio in North America. This division will deal with games, including for PC and consoles.

A mobile studio with Russian roots Donut Lab participated in a new round of financing. She received $ 2.3 million from investors, which she will spend on the further development of the cartoon shooter Kids vs Zombies.

The other day, Peter Molyneux announced the Legacy blockchain game. Nothing is really known about the project yet, but the possibility of buying virtual land in the form of NFT has already attracted the first customers. In three days, Molineux Studio 22cans managed to sell digital plots worth £40 million ($53 million).What is Legacy?

Sony intends to improve its relationship with indie developers. According to the results of a survey for PlayStation partners, the company plans to fix a number of obvious problems of its platform. We are talking about slow communication, low findability of games and opacity of work processes.What prompted Sony to respond to the problems?

The Australian Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) has summed up the results of 2021. She estimated that over the current year, game studios in Australia have earned a total of $161.6 million*. The developers received the vast majority of this amount from abroad.

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SocialPeta analysts named the best game advertisers on the mobile market by the number of creatives published in November. In total, they have prepared three lists: in addition to the general rating of advertisers, there are also two tops with only new products (separately for iOS and Android).

According to gaming expert Simon Carless, the number of copies sold and the revenue of the game on Steam can be roughly calculated based on the number of user reviews. It turned out that in October, only 1.5% of the total number of new releases sold over 40,000 copies in the first seven days.Carless shared his thoughts in the latest issue of his newsletter.