The audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that over the next four years, the revenue of the Russian video games and esports market will reach $2.8 billion. Today , this figure is $ 2.16 billion .

In March, Playgendary released two hyper—casual novelties – Hitmasters and Perfect Cream. Both games were promoted by the company in TikTok. About how it was — in his column on App2Top.ru representatives of the latter told.

In early September, Epic Games sent a petition to the court asking Apple to ban Fortnite from being removed for the duration of the proceedings. Yesterday, the court heard the arguments of the parties and decided: the battle royale will not appear in the App Store yet, and the case itself should be handed over to the jury. A new hearing will take place no earlier than July 2021.

A Reuters source reports that PUBG Mobile has little chance of returning to India. Even revoking the rights to publish the game in the region from Tencent is unlikely to help lift the ban.The South Korean company PUBG Corporation was forced to revoke the license to publish the game in India from Tencent after 118 Chinese applications were blocked in the country in early September amid a border conflict.

Last week, the Russian publisher Playcore announced the launch of a competition for the best mobile game project. The winners will receive initial traffic to any geo, as well as full-format marketing assistance.

Glu Mobile, which produces a game about home improvement Design Home, has added a store of real interior items to its project. Now players will be able to buy accessories for their home and receive in-game currency for them.The online store was named Design Home Inspired.

Corporation Mail.Ru The Group is going to launch a service for “games in the cloud” called My.Games Cloud. The company itself has not yet announced when the product will appear on the market. But according to preliminary information, testing of My.Games Cloud will begin this year.

A federal judge in the United States has blocked for an indefinite period the decree of President Donald Trump (Donald Trump) banning the download of TikTok. This happened four hours before the decree came into force.

Before the release in China, the creators of mobile games Genshin Impact and Rise of Kingdoms removed their projects from local Android stores, which belong to smartphone manufacturers. Developers are protesting against the high commission, which is 50%.What happened and why?

The era is gone. FarmVille will stop working on Facebook at the end of this year. The reason is the unwillingness to translate the project to HTML5 after the decision of the social network to stop supporting Flash games at home.Recall that the official reason why Facebook “closes the valve” to Flash games is the termination of Adobe Flash Player support in all browsers.

Sony has increased prices for the Russian PS Store. Basic versions of some games have gone up to 6 thousand rubles, and versions with additional content — up to 9 thousand rubles. The change is due to “current market conditions”.

EA has once again faced criticism of its microtransaction policy. An advertisement for FIFA 21 loot boxes appeared in the magazine of a children’s toy store, which directly talked about the need to open packs with football players.Attention to the problem was drawn by one of the Twitter users who published a photo of a page from the magazine of the British chain of toy stores Smyths Toys.

Krafton has announced a merger with its subsidiary studio, PUBG Corp. After the merger, the development team of the latter will continue to work independently, but the publishing and technical support units will come under the direct control of Krafton.

The App Store policy has repeatedly attracted criticism from developers, but now the wave of discontent has reached a new level.Thirteen companies, including Spotify, Epic Games and Match Group have joined a coalition against Apple. The organization’s goal is to “protect freedom of choice and fair competition in the application ecosystem.”

Leslie Benzies, who previously served as president of Rockstar North, has attracted investments of $42 million to develop a new game Everywhere. One of the investors was the Chinese giant NetEase.The funds will be received by the Benzis studio Build a Rocket Boy.

On September 23, the Rocket League football race switched to a frituplein distribution model. Just a day later, online reached a record for the project of 1 million players.The achievement was announced by Corey Davis, one of the heads of the Psyonix studio.

Amazon has found a way to circumvent the rules and the App Store commission. The company has released the Luna cloud gaming service in the form of PWA, a progressive web application. This means that the service will not appear in the store at all — a browser is enough for it to work.

Information that Amazon is preparing its own service for “playing in the cloud” appeared back in 2019. Now it has come to the announcement. At an event dedicated to hardware, Amazon announced the launch of the Luna service.

In the first half of 2020, German residents spent €3.7 billion on games, which is 27% more than a year earlier for the same period. One of the main reasons is self—isolation during a pandemic. The largest increase occurred in the category of in-game purchases.This is described in the report, which was prepared by the German Gaming Industry Association (Game) based on data from App Annie and GfK, as well as surveys of Germans aged…