Released by Sony fighting game My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero earned over $4.14 million in less than two weeks. This is 80% of the company’s mobile revenue for the entire month.

Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio will release educational mobile games based on its new animated series. The development will be handled by the company “Sberbank Games”, and before the creation of the project, a detailed scientific study will be conducted by specialists in the field of neuropsychology.”Monsiki”

On May 19, NCSOFT released a new free—to-play game Trickster M – a reinterpretation of the 2003 MMORPG Trickster Online. The project is currently available only in South Korea, but already earns about $ 1 million every day.According to AppMagic, Trickster M’s revenue on mobile devices from the release amounted to $10.46 million.

The other day, the geolocation game Jurassic World Alive turned three years old. In honor of which the PocketGamer portal shared statistics on the project. It turned out that during the time since its release, its revenue amounted to $ 102 million, and downloads — 25 million.

Newzoo has published a study of the open world gaming market. The analytical company spoke about the share of “openworlds” on consoles and PCs, the most popular subgenres, as well as about the demographics of such titles. For example, the main audience of Minecraft is people aged 21-35.Minecraft

Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Games decided to take up M&A. The plans were announced by the co-founder and CEO of the company Vlad Suglobov.

The ambiguous reaction of the audience to the release of Biomutant did not prevent the title from capturing the first two lines in the weekly list of the best-selling Steam games. The previous leader of Days Gone went to the fifth place.

GameRefinery has published a large study of the American match-3 market as of May 2021. The company talked about the main trends, the highest-grossing projects and the most important mechanics. Also, for the first time in several years, the top 5 highest-grossing games have changed in the genre — Project Makover got into it. In just a few months, it has become one of the biggest hits on the match-3 market.Key data

The CEO of Microsoft believes that over time, gaming stores will have to reduce the size of the commission. But not on consoles. He explains his position by the fierce competition on the PC and in mobile against the background of loss-making consoles.

Now the studio Small Giant Games is the second largest developer in Finland after Supercell. Last year, its revenue exceeded €400 million, and the rest of the company’s financial indicators are also growing steadily.Data from the financial report of Small Giant Games was shared by the Finnish business publication Tivi.

The Chinese video game market is growing rapidly. According to the forecast of the analytical company Niko Partners, by 2025 the turnover of the mobile and PC segments alone will reach $55.1 billion. This is $12 billion more than in 2020.

Despite all the scandals around loot boxes, the Ultimate Team mode in sports games like FIFA remains one of the main sources of income for Electronic Arts. The company itself noted that it makes up a “significant part” of its revenue. Over the past year alone, EA has earned over $1.5 billion on it, which is almost 30% of the publisher’s total revenue.The exact revenue of the Ultimate Team mode became known from the annual…

The revenues of the American video game market have fallen after 13 months of growth, according to analysts at NPD Group. Iron sales suffered the most, which decreased by 30%. As for the games, FIFA 21 disappeared from the top twenty best-selling titles, but it included NieR: Replicant and Returnal.

CCP Games has launched an online course dedicated to human relationships and creating real connections through video games. It was prepared jointly with the University of Iceland and is based on the company’s experience in the development of EVE Online. The program is based on the stories of real players of the popular MMO.The course is called “Friendship Machines: Creating a New Type of Human Relationship” (Friendship Machine: Forming a New Type of Human Connection)…

Yesterday Sony held a presentation for investors, where it shared the main figures of the gaming direction and plans for the future. It turned out that PlayStation is going to “go beyond consoles” and focus, among other things, on ports for mobile and PC.

Together with the release of Unreal Engine 5, a technodemo was released in early access, demonstrating the new capabilities of the engine. The interactive scene looks impressive, but requires 100 GB of free space and at least 32 GB of RAM. This has given rise to discussions about the growing requirements for drives in new games.

Shanghai-based developer Lilith Games is moving beyond the mobile market for the first time. The company, known for the hits AFK Arena and Rise of Kingdoms, talked about its new game — the online free-play action Farlight 84. According to the developers, a unique “hunting” mode will help them compete with AAA battle royales on PC.

Sensor Tower analysts shared a report on the state of the mobile advertising market in the American App Store in 2020. Among other things, they noted that one of the main advertisers on the market is Playrix.

Epic Games has announced the pre-release of Unreal Engine 5. It is open for everyone to get acquainted and work. So far, the engine is available exclusively as part of early access.