App2Top.ru the annual series of materials “Results of the Year” starts. In it, we interview top managers and experts of the gaming industry about how a year has passed for their business. The series opens with an interview with Ilya Eremeev, co—founder and general partner of The Games Fund (TGF).

Unity continues to actively buy up tech startups. This time, she acquired the SyncSketch platform, which allows artists to work remotely on a single project. The size of the transaction and its terms are not disclosed.

The products of the Belarusian-British Gismart have surpassed the mark of 1 billion total downloads. Almost half of all downloads came from games.

Popular American blogger MrBeast recreated the trials from the TV series “The Squid Game” in real life. The sponsor of the video, which has already gained almost 130 million views, was Supercell. As a result, downloads of her mobile hit Brawl Stars increased 4.5 times.The video “Playing Squid in real life” was released on YouTube on November 25.

Wanted: creative producer at Playgendary, game designer at Deus Craft and middle-level project manager at Tamashi Games.

In just a week since the release of Farming Simulator 22, it has surpassed the mark of 1.5 million copies sold. Previously, no game in the series has shown such results at the start. At the same time, the new part of Farming Simulator is the first title that Giants Software studio publishes independently.The company attributes the success of Farming Simulator 22 both to the presence of a dedicated fan base and to the support…

Google has begun to summarize the results of the year. She published a list of games that she considered the best in the outgoing 2021. Pokémon UNITE, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Bird Alone and about twenty other titles got into it.

Against the background of GOG’s losses, CD Projekt shared its plans for the store’s future. The main task is to restructure in order to increase its financial stability. Some of the employees will be transferred to the game development team. GOG itself will no longer be financially dependent on other CD Projekt divisions and will continue to develop the concept of selling titles without DRM protection.CD Projekt told about this during a conversation with investors…

Against the background of large discounts, the attitude of users to Cyberpunk 2077 has noticeably improved. The game has returned to the top of sales, and its views on YouTube have jumped by 540% over the past week. However, CD Projekt in its report for the third quarter still does not disclose the exact sales of the title.Analyst Mat Piscatella from NPD Group drew attention to the growing interest in Cyberpunk 2077.

The Swedish Zordix Group of Companies continues to expand. She acquired Maximum Games, which is responsible for future physical releases of Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Among Us. The maximum size of the transaction is $72 million.

Steam recently broke two of its own records at once — by the number of game releases per month and by the number of simultaneous users of the platform. Moreover, the store managed to update the last record twice during the weekend.

The other day App2Top.ru conducted a live broadcast with Alexey “Flazm“ Davydov, an indie developer and head of the studio of the same name. We talked in detail about the development of the Time Loader physical puzzle, the mechanics of the game and the difficulties encountered in the process. They also discussed working with publishers, the modern indie scene and budgets.

Nordisk Games has announced a new takeover. She acquired the Danish studio Flashbulb Games, which is known for the racing sandbox Trailmakers. The volume and terms of the transaction are not disclosed, but we can talk about hundreds of millions of Danish crowns.

Premium projects usually have a section with titles, where they indicate, if possible, all those involved in the creation of the project. However, for some reason this is not accepted in mobile development. Why did this happen and what can be done (and whether it is necessary) to fix the situation, we asked the leading mobile gaming companies.

Educational direction VK (former Mail.ru Group) decided to find out what Russian schoolchildren think about working in the video game industry. It turned out that almost one in three would like to link their career with games. Moreover, 28% of students are ready to start work immediately after graduation.

There were a lot of changes in the Steam bestseller chart last week. Farming Simulator 22 has become the new leader of the rating, shifting Battlefield 2042 from the first place. Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn also returned to the top ten best-selling games.

Another game studio from Russia received investment from Tencent. The deal with the Chinese giant was announced by GFA Games, which is working on the PIONER shooter. The amount and terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The problem of mentioning studio employees in the credits periodically causes great discussions in the professional environment. From the latter, we can recall the case with the release of Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, when Frogwares studio initially forgot to mention a number of former developers. We talked to several representatives of the gaming industry about how common this practice is and how to deal with it.

WN Media Group has announced Talents in Games Conference’21 — a conference for gaming professionals. This time the event will take place completely offline. It starts on December 13 in Moscow.