This was told by the head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, during a hearing in the case of Epic Games and Google due to the removal of Fortnite from Google Play.

Is there a difference between a manager and a manager, which people should not be appointed to the position of a manager, how Western managers differ from Russian—speaking ones – on these and other topics, the editors of App2Top talked with Evgeny Sudak, author of the course “Ethical Management“.

The release of Spirittea has become one of the largest in the history of indie publishing house No More Robots. According to the head of the company Mike Rose, the game paid off on the very first day, and its profit for the debut week was three times higher than the development costs.

nDreams, a British developer and publisher of VR games, has joined Aonic, a gaming conglomerate that owns stakes in OtherSide Entertainment, BKOM Studios and Milky Tea.

The magical shooter Immortals of Aveum became a commercial failure for Ascendant Studios: because of it, the studio had to cut 45% of the staff. In an interview with Windows Central, Ascendant Studios CEO Bret Robbins attributed the poor sales of the game to the poorly chosen time for release.

On July 25, 2023, the Polish Big Cheese Studio released Cooking Simulator in China. The game did not interest Chinese gamers. In a report to investors, the studio said that by November 13, it had managed to sell only 35 copies of the game in the country and earn $349 on them.

The Roblox platform has reached a new milestone. According to the estimates of the analytical service AppMagic, in November, total user spending in the mobile version of Roblox exceeded $ 7 billion. Important: this is the amount before the company pays the fees and taxes.

On October 17, the AppsFlyer MAMA Georgia conference dedicated to mobile analytics and marketing was held in Tbilisi. The other day, the organizers of the event posted recordings of all reports in open access.

Snail, the publisher of ARK: Survival Ascended, announced that the game has passed the milestone of 600 thousand copies sold two weeks after its release in early access.

Such a proposal was announced at a meeting of the working group “Development of high-tech sports in the Russian Federation” under the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports of the State Duma, Vedomosti reports.

The analytical company InvestGame presented a report on the situation on the gaming investment market for the first three quarters of 2023. Both in terms of the volume of transactions and their number, it turned out to be one of the most unsuccessful in the last four years.

The indie publisher Annapurna Interactive has a subsidiary studio. She became 24 Bit Games from South Africa, which helps companies with the development and porting of games.

During the Unite 2023 conference, Unity announced Unity 6, the next version of its engine. With it, developers, among other things, will get early access to tools based on Unity Muse and Unity Sentis artificial intelligence.

Scopely has announced that MONOPOLY GO! It has reached revenue of $1 billion in seven months since its global release — faster than all other mobile casual games.

GDEV (formerly Nexters) decided to go beyond video games. She’s going to produce more content under the Hero Wars brand. For example, comics and cartoons.

Wooga has announced that Hidden June’s Journey has crossed the $1 billion gross revenue milestone faster than any other German-developed mobile game. It took her six years.

Nordcurrent said that the purchase of River End Games will allow it to “take a big step in implementing a strategy to go beyond mobile games.”

The head of the RVI, Vasily Ovchinnikov, complained to Russian law enforcement agencies about the map of the Moscow metro, which was developed by the Moscow Department of Transport for the “Big Esports League” tournament on Counter-Strike 2. In his opinion, she may violate the laws of the Russian Federation.