Last week — from July 9 to July 10 — an offline WN Conference was held. It took place as part of the hybrid large-scale event WN Eastern Europe. We tell you about the results of the event.

In the new digital era, the question of who will get the game accounts and the items accumulated in them after the death of users is acute. To do this, Tencent has patented a special technology of “digital inheritance”. In theory, it will allow you to transfer in-game assets to people specified in the will.Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to this.

After scandals with a massive decline in the rating of games, developers often begin to wonder if this will affect them as well. Some suggest radically solving the problem and completely banning gamers from rating. But according to the authors of the Dusk retroshooter, this can only aggravate the situation.

Google has announced Play as you download, a feature that will allow you to play games without waiting for their final download from Google Play. The innovation will work on devices with Android 12.

Krafton managed to release a new version of PUBG Mobile in India almost a year after it was blocked. The project is now called Battlegrounds Mobile India. Tens of millions of local users are already playing it.Statistics were shared on July 12 by Anuj Tandon, Head of Investment and Corporate Development at Krafton in India and MENA countries.

Of the 3,600 people working at Playrix, about a thousand work on the territory of Ukraine. For comparison, in Belarus — a little more than a hundred.

The total revenue of the gaming industry in the world increased by 10% last year. The audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers expects that this area will continue to grow steadily. According to analysts’ forecasts, by 2025 the volume of the global video game market will approach the $200 billion mark.The main thing from the study

In Australia, the hearing on the case of Epic Games and Apple will continue. He was “frozen” in April due to a similar trial in the United States. But now the court agreed with the arguments of the creators of Fortnite and recognized that the situation should be considered from the point of view of local laws.

New items have reappeared in the weekly Steam bestseller chart. So far, this is only Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, which, thanks to various publications, took two lines at once — the third and ninth. Topped the PUBG chart, selling with a 50% discount.

Dmitry Ilyinov, Senior Customer Relations Manager at App Annie, spoke at the WN St. Petersburg’21 conference today. He told what is happening now in the global and Russian mobile gaming markets, and also presented an updated classification of mobile games.

Alisa Chumachenko, CEO of the Sbera gaming direction, spoke at the WN St. Petersburg’21 conference. She spoke about the ambitions of Sberbank in the international and local markets, and also shared the three main pillars on which the company will rely. Among them is the creation of a personalization platform, a voice assistant for games and your own marketplace.

In 2018, software engineer James Liu was invited to work at Amazon. That’s just that he didn’t like some of the points of the company’s employment contract, which concerned the creation of personal games outside of work. Liu recently shared a fragment of the document on Twitter, and his post immediately went viral.

The analytical company Newzoo shared an analysis of the Latin American mobile market. In a recent study, she talked about the gaming demographics in the region, how much local gamers are willing to spend on games and what genres they prefer.

Developer and publisher of mobile games SciPlay has announced the takeover of a third studio. It includes the Finnish Koukoi Games, known for the runner about Am Nyama. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

As part of the upcoming WN St. Petersburg’21, AppsFlyer will announce the launch of an open beta version of its predictive analytics solution for iOS. It is called PredictSK.

Analytical company Niko Partners in a recent study examined how the Chinese console market is changing. There are still few games made by foreign developers on it, but the number of local titles is growing. But this is not yet enough for the sector to fully compete (financially) with mobile and PC.

The investment fund, founded earlier this year by Ilya Eremeev and Maria Kochmola with the participation of Sergey Titov and GEM Capital, announced the first deals. The Games Fund has invested $2.4 million in four gaming companies.

Google was sued. The authorities of Washington and 36 US states accused the corporation of monopolizing Google Play. They are concerned that Google allegedly does not allow other stores on Android and pays competitors not to make their own app stores.

A publisher of independent games with Russian roots has appeared. It’s called Ravenage. It was founded and headed by Elena Morina, who was previously responsible for marketing Super.com . The new company has a fund of $20 million.