Almost two months ago, Australia refused to classify Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, which actually meant a ban on the sale of the game. However, now a special commission has revised the decision and assigned an 18+ rating to the Estonian project, despite the harsh vocabulary and touching on topics like addiction.On May 11, the Australian Classification Review Board, which evaluates games, films and text materials, revised the rating of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut…

Lorin Hitt from the Wharton School of Business tried to prove that the browser can circumvent the ban on billing in the App Store. He stated that for at least eight games from the list of the top 25 projects at the box office in the store, you can buy content outside of iOS.

At the beginning of the year, Google Stadia began to have big problems after the closure of internal development studios and the departure of Jade Raymond. Despite this, the company assures that the platform feels great and continues to develop. Among the arguments are regular replenishment of the library of games and cooperation with indie studios. However, Google still doesn’t say anything about the size of the service’s audience.About the current state of Stadia in…

There aren’t many mobile franchise games on the American market. Only 9% of titles relate to products made under license. At the same time, they account for 23% of the earnings of the entire mobile in the USA.

The services of the Sber ecosystem analyzed how Russians spent money during the May holidays. It turned out that the turnover of payments in gaming services that accept payments through UCASSA has almost doubled.Data on the behavior and payments of Russian video game lovers was shared by the press service of YUMOPEU.

Xbox Game Studios will now work closely with the Chinese TiMi Studios, the “daughter” of Tencent and the developers of Honor of Kings and Call of Duty: Mobile. We are talking about creating game content, but both companies have not yet disclosed the details of the partnership.This became known today from the official press release.

A new “unicorn” has appeared on the NFT gaming market – Animoca Brands, which today specializes in blockchain games and the release of its own tokens. The Hong Kong-based company has attracted investments of $88 million, based on an estimate of $1 billion.Animoca Brands announced this today on its official website.

The May WN Conference has started. She is special for a number of reasons. One of the main ones: its organizers are holding a conference in reality for the first time after the world lockdown, and this is the first Chinese event of WN Media Group.

State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein is going to introduce a bill on “landing” in the near future. It proposes to oblige IT companies with a daily audience of 500 thousand Russians to open official representative offices in Russia.

To correct the balance of weapons in Call of Duty: Mobile, developers from TiMi Studios and Activision had to collect community reviews and test them in practice using limited playtests. Matt Lewis, the general manager of the game and vice president of the publisher’s mobile direction, told about the difficulties encountered.Matt Lewis’ original column was published on Gamasutra on May 12.

By the end of April App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

A lot of large companies are unhappy that their internal information is leaking to the network because of the proceedings between Epic Games and Apple. Among them: Nintendo, Roblox, Spotify, Sony, PayPal, Samsung, as well as Epic Games themselves with Apple. They demanded that the court close access to the documents.

Swedish Embracer Group continues to buy studios en masse. Now four companies have joined the ranks of the holding at once, three of which have come under the control of THQ Nordic. Below is a brief overview of acquisitions.

Unity has prepared a report for the first quarter (ended March 31), reporting revenue growth. The company also shared its forecast for the current financial year and estimated possible losses from the new IDFA policy.Key data

Electronic Arts reported for the fiscal year (ended March 31). The publisher’s revenue remained almost at the level of last year, amounting to a little more than $ 5.6 billion. However, revenues from free—to-play games and other services continue to grow, while the share of premium titles continues to fall.Key data for the year

Ubisoft told about the changes in its development strategy. The publisher intends to release freeplay offshoots of its key franchises. However, we are not talking about reducing the number of AAA titles, but about the approach that Activision has been using in recent years to develop the Call of Duty series.Ubisoft announced this during a conversation with investors after the publication of the annual report.

Ubisoft has published a financial report for the year (ended March 31). Sales turned out to be record-breaking and exceeded € 2 billion, and the total number of unique players on PC and consoles reached 141 million. The company also shared data on individual games and talked about the calendar of upcoming releases.Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids

Apple prohibits developers from not only implementing their own payment systems, but also generally telling users about discounts outside of iOS. For example, they cannot be sent emails with an offer to buy a subscription or game currency on the game’s website cheaper than in the App Store. Also, you cannot specify similar information in the application itself.

The Swedish Stillfront Group has replenished the portfolio. A studio with Ukrainian roots, Game Labs, known for the strategic games Naval Action and Ultimate General, came under the leadership of the company.