The VG Insights service released an infographic in which it highlighted in detail how the pandemic affected Steam in terms of launching new projects. According to his data, the unfavorable situation in the world last year had a significant impact on all types of gaming products (that is, both AAA projects and games from indie teams).

Unity became the owner of Pixyz Software. The main specialization of the French company is tools for optimizing and integrating 3D objects into engines. With this deal, Unity also intends to expand opportunities for gaming and industrial companies.Unity announced the deal, the amount of which was not disclosed, in its official blog.

Tencent remains the most active company in the gaming investment market. This time, the Chinese giant has acquired a majority stake in the Berlin studio Yager. The developers are known for Spec Ops shooters: The Line and The Cycle.Spec Ops: The Line

The devtodev analytical platform has introduced a calculation model that, according to its developers, allows predicting the revenue of mobile applications with an accuracy of 85-90%. The tool is based on machine learning.

Wanted: Senior game designer at Deus Craft, UI/UX designer at WazzApps and Art Director at Gamix.

A lecture program has appeared on the website of the WN Eastern Europe hybrid conference. The organizers have planned about 60 reports on the business aspects of video game development. Among the speakers are Activision Blizzard, Ketchapp, Dark Horse Games and many others.

Abandoned is an upcoming indie horror from Blue Box Studio. Almost nothing is known about the team or the game itself. However, thanks to fan theories about its connection with Silent Hill and the provocations of developers, it has become one of the most discussed projects of 2021. We talk in detail about who is hiding behind the Blue Box, and whether Hideo Kojima has anything to do with it.

The Reddit community decided to help indie developers get unbiased reviews of their games. For these purposes, the Destroy My Game subreddit appeared on the site (Destroy my Game), whose users should point out the pros and cons of the proposed projects without embellishment and as honestly as possible.An example of one of the projects submitted to the court of Destroy My Game users

How to make sure that the idea of the game is working, — he told in his column on App2Top.ru Maxim Samorukov, founder of the analytical service AppMagic.

Igor Dyatlov, who founded XYZ School in 2017, announced on his VKontakte page that he was forced to leave his company a year and a half ago. According to his version, the partners, who are now business leaders, were forced to resign by threats.

Electronic Arts has decided to partially revise the system of loot boxes in the FIFA series of games. To do this, the company temporarily gave players the opportunity to find out the contents of packs in the Ultimate Team mode before buying them. However, this promotion has a number of limitations.This is how the new packs look in the game (on the right you can see the timer with the remaining time until a new…

Sony has officially returned Cyberpunk 2077 to the PlayStation Store. The game was absent from the platform for six months, and now it is sold at a reduced price. Despite the return of the CD Projekt project to the store, users are warned about the remaining performance problems.On June 21, the opportunity to buy the game again appeared on the Cyberpunk 2077 page in the PS Store.

Over the weekend, XYZ School, known for its game-dev courses, found itself in the center of a big scandal. It all started with a collective letter from deceived students who could not get a fully paid course program for almost nine months. The post caused a great resonance, and after the official response of the management, the editorial board of the media direction left the company.

In April, Wargaming launched a new studio. It is located in the capital of Lithuania — Vilnius. A couple of months later it became known that the “tank” giant also purchased 76 apartments in one of the high-rise buildings there. The transaction amount is estimated at €20 million.

Indian gamers can download PUBG Mobile again nine months after the ban. The game became available on Android under the new name Battlegrounds Mobile India, and its content was censored. At the same time, the return turned out to be successful — in just two weeks, the project collected over 20 million pre-registrations on Google Play.Battlegrounds Mobile India is now available for download on Google Play for all Indian users.

ByteDance has reported for 2020. The company’s revenue reached $34.3 billion, an increase of 111% compared to the previous year. Rumors around a possible IPO of the Chinese giant could play an important role in this.

Nazara has invested in the mobile publishing agency Publishme, which is the largest in the Middle East and Turkey. The Indian gaming company paid $3 million for 69.8% of the shares.With the help of the deal, Nazara plans to strengthen itself in the international market of mobile free-play games.

Roblox managed to partially settle the scandal related to the illegal use of songs on the site. The company has announced a collaboration with BMG, the fourth largest music label in the world. Together they plan to help artists look for a new audience and opportunities for promos.Details of the transaction, including financial ones, were not disclosed.

In a little more than a year, the valuation of Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands has grown tenfold to $1 billion. The co-founder of the company Yat Siu (Yat Siu) told in an interview with the South China Morning Post how the development in the field of blockchain and NFT helped to achieve explosive growth.