The analytical company Newzoo told what will happen to the video game industry in 2021. Despite the fact that the revenue will be less than last year, the market will continue to grow. The number of gamers will jump by 150 million people.

The GameMaker Studio game engine can now again be used for free for longer than 30 days. YoYo Games studio has provided free access to the engine, but with the condition that it can be done only for familiarization.

Room 8 Studio is a Ukrainian outsourcer that helps other companies with the development and porting of games. Yesterday, the studio announced the opening of a new office in Montreal as part of its global expansion strategy.Room 8 Studio announced this on June 30 on its official website.

Indie developers have repeatedly talked about the negative experience of working with PlayStation. Yesterday it turned out that the feature in the PS Store costs $ 25 thousand. After that, Sony was hit by a new wave of criticism. Developers began to point out many other problems of the company — including lack of support, poor game findability, and, as a result, low sales of indie games.

China’s Tencent has grown by another studio. Its subsidiary Lightspeed and Quantum Studios Group, which is developing the Chinese version of PUBG Mobile, has announced the launch of an American division — Uncapped Games Studios. It was headed by people from Blizzard.

The developers from InnerSloth told about the new achievement of their hit Among Us. During the week of the free distribution of the title in the Epic Games Store, the game was downloaded by 15 million people.

Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds is a new role—playing Asian blockbuster that can compete with Genshin Impact. Only 11 days after the release, the players left about $ 100 million in the project. Thanks to this, the game stayed in second place in the world in earnings for a week (only Honor of Kings earned more).

Japanese publisher KONAMI has started working with the Polish studio Bloober Team, specializing in horror games. The companies are going to “develop selected content together and share their accumulated experience.”

The largest series of investments in the history of Turkey took place. Within the framework of this round, the game startup Dream Games raised $ 155 million. The assessment of the entire studio, which had previously been noted for only one match3 game, amounted to $ 1 billion.

Finnish Remedy has signed a contract with 505 Games to develop and co-publish a multiplayer spin-off Control. For the production of the game, codenamed Condor, the companies laid a budget of € 25 million.

The Green Grey company has become more active. After two PR campaigns — involving Zurab Tsereteli in the creation of the Mountain Goat Cup for developers and launching a program about games on Muz-TV — the company announced the first deal. She invests $4 million in a joint mobile shooter of the designer of the Corsairs series and a serial IT entrepreneur. Details about the deal and the publisher itself are in our material.

Six months after leaving BioWare, well-known developer Casey Hudson announced the launch of his own indie studio. Humanoid Studios has opened in Canada. She will create games on a new IP.

Wanted: Project manager at RJ Games, PR/marketing manager at Plarium and Head of Design at WN Media Group.

Many developers often have to move from place to place, which in the end can greatly harm mental health. Experienced game designer Laralyn McWilliams (Laralyn McWilliams), known for MMO Free Realms, wrote a big thread about this problem. She told how it affects her personal life, and how moving leads to burnout.Laralyn McWilliams

Today Sony announced the acquisition of the Finnish studio Housemarque, developers of Returnal. However, the Japanese PlayStation division mistakenly mentioned Bluepoint Games, the creators of the Demon’s Souls remake, in the announcement. It seems that the Japanese company was planning to announce the purchase of this studio soon.On June 29, Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, announced the acquisition of Housemarque on the PlayStation blog.

Finnish studio Boom Corp has attracted $1.8 million from investors. She is going to spend the money on the development of mobile social games. The company itself is still known for one tile Boom Slingers — the ideological heir of Worms and Angry Birds.

Last May, Allods Team announced Blast Brigade. This is a two-dimensional metroidvania, one of the distinctive features of which is bright cartoon graphics. We asked Yulia Krasheninnikova, the art director of the project, to tell us how the work was carried out on it.

After the release of iOS 14.5 and the introduction of new rules regarding IDFA, the mobile advertising market began to change rapidly. According to the latest data, the projected LTV of Android applications has increased 2.5 times since April. Against this background, the level of advertising spending on iOS continues to fall.Analyst John Kutsier (John Koetsier) in a column for Forbes spoke about changes in the mobile advertising market.

xCloud streaming service has become available on iOS and PC. Microsoft has announced the launch of an open beta test in 22 countries. Russia is not among them.