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.

Rovio has published a financial report for the third quarter (July-September). During this period, the company earned €67.9 million. Despite the generally good performance of already released games, revenue fell compared to last year’s results.Key figures for the third quarter

Apple has added two new notification types to the App Store. Both are associated with subscriptions. At the same time, one of the old types of subscription status notifications will disappear from the store in March 2021.

This year, the Chinese mobile title Honor of Kings celebrates its fifth anniversary. In honor of the anniversary, Tencent shared a new achievement of the project — the DAU of the game has passed the milestone of 100 million.

Ubisoft has published a report for the first half of the fiscal year (ended September 30). During this period, the publisher earned €754 million, while games from the back catalog accounted for almost 100% of revenue. A separate chapter in the document is devoted to changes in the company related to harassment and inclusivity.General figures

The gaming industry continues to grow. Along with it, the number of disputable situations in the market is also increasing. It is not surprising that more and more law firms are turning their attention to the gaming business as their field of activity. We have written about Dentons and Semenov&Pevzner more than once before. Today it became known about the similar ambitions of the VERSUS.legal law firm.

Activision Blizzard did not have time to share successful results in the third quarter of 2020, as its CEO made an additional statement. It turns out that the company lacks two thousand employees to continue to close all production needs.