Today Sony announced the acquisition of the Finnish studio Housemarque, developers of Returnal. However, the Japanese PlayStation division mistakenly mentioned Bluepoint Games, the creators of the Demon’s Souls remake, in the announcement. It seems that the Japanese company was planning to announce the purchase of this studio soon.On June 29, Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, announced the acquisition of Housemarque on the PlayStation blog.

Finnish studio Boom Corp has attracted $1.8 million from investors. She is going to spend the money on the development of mobile social games. The company itself is still known for one tile Boom Slingers — the ideological heir of Worms and Angry Birds.

Last May, Allods Team announced Blast Brigade. This is a two-dimensional metroidvania, one of the distinctive features of which is bright cartoon graphics. We asked Yulia Krasheninnikova, the art director of the project, to tell us how the work was carried out on it.

After the release of iOS 14.5 and the introduction of new rules regarding IDFA, the mobile advertising market began to change rapidly. According to the latest data, the projected LTV of Android applications has increased 2.5 times since April. Against this background, the level of advertising spending on iOS continues to fall.Analyst John Kutsier (John Koetsier) in a column for Forbes spoke about changes in the mobile advertising market.

xCloud streaming service has become available on iOS and PC. Microsoft has announced the launch of an open beta test in 22 countries. Russia is not among them.

Why a dispute about the right to use the song “Music connected us” in the trailer of the Atomic Heart game turned out to be possible, as well as how to protect yourself from getting into similar situations, — he told in his column on App2Top.ru Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov &Pevzner Law Firm.

Mobile market revenue is steadily growing. In the first half of 2021, it reached $44.7 billion – $6.8 billion more than at the same time a year ago. But things are not so good with downloads, according to Sensor Tower analysts.

The story around the Atomic Heart trailer and the song “Music Connected Us” used in it continues to unfold. The head of the Mundfish studio, Robert Bagratuni, responded to the public claims of the founder of the Mirage group, Andrei Lityagin.

Several events related to Cyberpunk 2077 took place over the weekend. At first, CD PROJEKT management stated that it was quite a general state of the game. After that, it became known that sales of the title increased by 374%. But then it turned out that his audience on the PC continued to plummet.

With App2Top.ru representatives of the Mirage group contacted. They declared the legality of removing the Atomic Heart trailer from Mundfish and revealed how the situation with the trailer looks from their side.

A year after the harassment allegations, the famous game designer and screenwriter Chris Avellone spoke about the situation for the first time. He told his version of events in detail, pointed out the inaccuracies in the words of the girls and recalled how he lost his job in one day because of the cancellation culture. Avellon has also filed a libel suit and intends to defend himself in court.Source: Critical Path

The French publisher Focus Home Interactive shared the results of the financial year that ended on March 31. The company earned €171 million. The bulk of its revenue was provided by digital sales.

The Australian authorities have expanded the list of professions that will be given priority during immigration. Now it will be easier for developers and other game specialists to get a work visa and a residence permit. This is another measure to restore the economy from the effects of the pandemic.The Australian Ministry of the Interior announced the changes last week.

Publisher and developer of mobile games Green Grey announced its first public deal. The company invested $ 4 million in the shooter studio Developers Unknown. The co-founder of the latter is Renat Yudinov, who previously worked on the Corsairs series.

This time there is not a single novelty in the weekly chart of the best-selling Steam games. It’s all the fault of the summer sale. Topped the top Sea of Thieves, which in addition to the discount began a crossover with the franchise “Pirates of the Caribbean”.

Microsoft has a new approach to content and third-party platforms. The company is ready to support other game and app stores within its own Windows Store.

Microsoft has allowed developers of Windows applications to take 100% of their revenue when using third-party payment systems. However, the company later clarified that it was only about software, and the authors of the games would still have to pay a commission.Microsoft confirmed this information to The Verge.

Localization is an important issue, especially for small developers with a limited budget. In addition, the list of key PC markets has changed a lot in recent years – for example, Russian is now among the four most popular languages on Steam. Gaming expert Simon Carless told how localization can affect sales, and what rules should be followed in this matter.At the beginning of his material, Carless draws attention to last year’s research by the…

As part of yesterday’s presentation of Windows 11, it became known that Microsoft‘s new operating system will receive native support for Android applications. You can download them directly from the new Microsoft Store, which will now have the Amazon Appstore built in. There is an opinion that this news was worth waiting for a long time.