tinyBuild continues to invest in its Hello Neighbor brand. The publisher announced investments in Lviv Hologryph, the authors of Secret Neighbor. The amount of investments amounted to $3 million.

On paper, the Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5. However, the first tests show that the multiplatform now works better and more stable on the Sony console. The reasons are banal. First: game developers had less time to optimize games for a Microsoft device. Second: less convenient tools and weaker documentation for it. This was told by The Verge, after talking with various teams that were preparing new releases for the latest…

The British mobile publisher Kwalee has shared a new record. Downloads of his hyper-casual titles have passed the half a billion mark.

Phil Spencer talked about the process of making deals with developers in a new interview with The Verge. The head of Xbox admitted that the company is in search of the perfect financial model for the Game Pass and seeks to increase the number of hours that subscribers spend in games.At the moment, Microsoft does not have a clear model and strategy of how much to pay developers for the presence of their games in…

The Indian government continues to ban mobile applications created by developers from China. This time, AliExpress, Alipay and about forty other projects fell under the knife. There are also games on the Indian blacklist.

Creating an exciting hyper-casual is not as easy as it seems, says Tomer Geller, the leading game designer at Supersonic Studios. In his column on Gamasutra, he shared four key principles that developers should follow during prototyping. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

Lion Studios is going against the trend. While the bulk of mobile teams are trying themselves in a hyper-casual niche, the company that has earned a name in this niche is launching a hardcore project about the distant future, the construction of bases and giant walking robots.

Among Us attracts not only the attention of gamers, but also the authorities. In Kazakhstan, a security check of the game was carried out after messages appeared in parental WhatsApp chats that the InnerSloth project allegedly leads to suicides.

Square Enix will launch a special program that will allow you to transfer most of the employees to permanent remote work without loss of efficiency. The company plans to adapt to the realities of the “new world” and make remote access a new standard.The Japanese publisher will divide all employees into remote (at least three times a week they work from home) and office (at least three times a week they work from the office).

The announcement of Talents in Games, a free online event for gaming specialists, took place. Among the speakers are Zynga and Versus.Evil. The start of the event is scheduled for next Tuesday.

Another studio attracted investment from Supercell. The Finnish giant has invested $2.8 million in startup 2UP Games, which is working on a cooperative game for mobile platforms.

The Remnant: From the Ashes action has performed well in sales. The total circulation of the project with a procedurally generated world exceeded 2.5 million copies worldwide.The results were announced by the publisher Perfect World.

A new free LDtk level editor has appeared on the web. Its author is the creator of Dead Cells. The project is open source and is aimed primarily at indie developers.Attention to LDtk was recently drawn to the publication 80 Level, and for the first time the developer presented his project back in September.

Bossa Studios will cut 15% of its staff during the restructuring. The company explains this by the need to adapt to the recent trends in the industry. At the same time, over the past few months, almost a quarter of the employees have already left the studio.

At the end of October, Belarusian Vizor Games released a new major project — Atlantis Odyssey. According to AppMagic, by the end of November, the game can reach revenue of a million dollars without advertising. We talked about the project and its development with the leading game designer of the project Ilya Marchenko.

How to improve the position of a mobile game in the App Store and Google Play search using ASOdesk tools, — says Sergey Sharov, founder of the ASOdesk platform and the Angle Connect agency.

The rumors were confirmed. Fortnite will indeed add a monthly subscription, which will include game currency and other bonuses. But it will be possible to link it to only one platform.

Now the Chinese gaming industry is dominated by Tencent and NetEase. However, now ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched its own store and plans to compete with them by independently developing and releasing projects.Own store and publishing house

The other day, the social networks “Odnoklassniki“, “VKontakte” and “My World” summed up the results of the Games Cup 2020, a tournament between developers of HTML5 games. Out of 150 applications, the organizers selected 8 winning games. A prize fund of 2 million rubles was distributed among them.