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.

At the end of the year we — App2Top.ru and Talents In Games — we conduct a large-scale salary study of the Russian-speaking gaming industry. We invite you to take part in it.

2020 was a record year for gaming investments. The total volume of investments for the first three quarters amounted to $9.9 billion. At the same time, more than half of this amount fell on the last three months.This is reported by Digital Development Management in its review of the investment market for the third quarter of 2020.

Activision Blizzard has reported for the third fiscal quarter of this year. The publishing house’s revenues came close to $ 2 billion, and the most successful titles of the publishing house were Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush.

Today, October 30, PUBG Mobile will stop working in India. The lifting of the ban was not helped by the revocation of the license to publish the game from Tencent, nor negotiations with local companies.The Indian government banned PUBG Mobile on September 2.

In the Play Store, it is now possible to compare several applications with each other on the same screen. While the function is in test mode, however, Google itself does not say when it will become available to a wide range of users and whether it will be at all.Attention was drawn to this by the Android Police portal.

Board games based on video games continue to attract a lot of attention from the audience. Next up is the adaptation of the Frostpunk urban planning simulator. In three weeks on Kickstarter, the authors of “nastolka” collected € 2.5 million. Despite the fact that the initial goal of the campaign was only € 200 thousand.

The Swedish Stillfront Group is preparing to acquire another studio. This time the company became interested in Everguild, specializing in mobile CCG.

AppQuantum advertising monetization managers have prepared a detailed analysis of how mobile advertising works today — from highlighting general principles to immersion in “waterfalls” and bidding.

In 2020, the gaming company Playgendary implemented an original HR initiative. The company has divided the HR department into small HR departments. Everyone is self—sufficient and works exclusively with their own business unit. Playgendary shared her new experience in an interview with App2Top.ru .