Sensor Tower analysts shared a forecast about how many publishers of mobile games and applications will earn a million dollars for the first time by the end of 2021. There will be 906 of them. A little more than a third of them are engaged in games.

A representative of GfK Entertainment shared data on the best-selling video games during the Christmas holidays over the past 38 years. The chart only counts copies sold in the UK. EA and Activision have the most titles on the list.The information was shared by the senior director of Customer Relations at GfK Dorian Bloch on his LinkedIn page.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Mikhail Zaitsev, CEO of the AppsFlyer marketing platform in Russia and the CIS.

The International Association of Game Developers (IGDA), with the support of Facebook Gaming, has compiled instructions for creating inclusive games. In her opinion, taking steps in this direction is the most important task for the industry. The organization spoke about the basic principles of diversity that developers should adhere to both within their teams and during project development.Photo: Rene Gittins, IGDA Executive Director

The Israeli studio with Ukrainian roots Whaleapp has a record — the total downloads of its games have exceeded the milestone of 40 million. Moreover, more than half of the installations have been collected in the last three months.

Global Game Jam has an official Russian representative. It became Yulia Lebedeva, partner and Executive Director of WN Media Group. Her tasks will include working with local event organizers.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Alexander Derkach, the company’s marketing director, told us about how the year went for Playrix.

GamesIndustry edition.biz has published a large infographic with the results of 2021. The portal told about the total volume of the gaming market, the best-selling and downloaded titles, as well as about the most discussed companies and the number of new IP addresses from different publishers.The infographic is based on data from Newzoo (market size), Sensor Tower (mobile games), GfK (the best-selling games on physical media in the UK), Famitsu (the best-selling console games on…

The Blockchain Game Alliance coalition has prepared a detailed report on NFT games. In particular, she spoke about the sales of game tokens, the size of the audience of such titles, as well as about the main advantages and problems of the segment.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Alexander Pavlov, co-founder of Playkot.

In China, 武侠乂 (The Swordsmen X) is being prepared for release — a mobile battle royale in a historical setting and with an emphasis on hand-to-hand fighting. As noted by the local press, the game has a chance to become a hit in China. At the moment, 2 million users have already pre-registered in it.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up are interviews with representatives of Wargaming: Evgeny Krishtapovich, regional publishing Director of World of Tanks, Andrey Gruntov, regional publishing Director of World of Tanks Console, and Natalia Pershits, head of World of Tanks Blitz (MS-1 mobile development studio).

Wanted: Senior game designer at Wargaming, Unity developer at DS1 Games and interface designer at Targem Games.

Embracer Group announced the purchase of five companies at once, including Dark Horse and Perfect World Entertainment. The latter will become part of Gearbox Entertainment, and the deal itself will cost $ 125 million.Neverwinter

At the end of May, SberGames and Soyuzmultfilm agreed to make mobile educational games for children together. They have recently published their first projects, and now they have reported on the results.

Over the past year and a half, dozens of key developers who worked on its main AAA hits have left Ubisoft. The employees themselves call the situation a “Great Outcome” and note that this is an unprecedented phenomenon for the company. Among the reasons for leaving are low salaries, dissatisfaction with management and creative vision.

Rec Room is a social VR platform on which users can build their game worlds and communicate with each other. The company received $145 million from investors, as a result of which its valuation increased to $3.5 billion.

Newzoo analysts together with the Pangle platform have prepared a report on mobile RPG. They talked about the income of the genre, popular mechanics and monetization strategies, as well as the demographics of such games. We share the main thing from the study.

Kaliningrad studio Pictolabra stops working. Its employees believe that the decision to close was made by the MGVC investment fund. That’s just his share in the studio is less than one percent. We tried to understand the situation. Photo: Pictolabra official website