Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick shared his view on the future of video games. According to him, the next 30-40 years will be “the most exciting” for the industry.

At the end of 2018, Netflix entered into negotiations with the CFO of Activision and eventually lured the employee to himself. Now the game publisher has sued the streaming service for interfering in contractual relations. At the same time, Netflix has been seen in similar actions with top managers of other companies before.The reason for the lawsuit was the transition of Activision CFO Spencer Neumann to a similar position at Netflix.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Andrei Iones, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Saber Interactive.

The film version of the game Monster Hunter: World was removed from rental in China because of a joke that many citizens of the country found offensive and racist. As a result, Chinese users began massively underestimating the game, and Capcom promised to investigate.What offended the Chinese in the film?

There is less than a week left before the release of Cyberpunk 2077. Analysts predict an extremely successful start to the game — 30 million copies sold in the first year. In the entire history, only about a dozen games have managed to achieve such results. But for this, the title needs to get at least 90 points on Metacritic, Bloomberg clarifies.

Advertising-based fraud in mobile games is a global problem. According to Adjust, the number of fraud has increased by more than 170% over the year, and fraudsters are increasingly faking organic traffic.From January to August 2020, Adjust analyzed more than 14.3 billion installations worldwide, including the United States, Europe, Latin America and China.

The MY.GAMES investment division has announced the acquisition of a minority stake from three mobile-related gaming companies at once. Now the brand has 34 closed deals on its account.

The Indian studio Bombay Play has attracted $1 million in seed investments. The developers plan to spend this money on creating “world-class social HTML5 games”.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Mateusz Szukaite, CEO of Galaktus PR agency. He spoke about the redistribution of advertising budgets of games in favor of online.

App Store revenue will not change much after the current commission reduction, Sensor Tower said. Analysts have estimated that 96.7% of the gaming part of the store consists of developers with less than $1 million in revenue. But at the same time, their games account for only 2% of the expenses of iOS gamers.

Kalypso Media has announced the completion of the takeover process of Realmforge Studios. Now the publisher Tropico owns 100% of the shares of the German developer, known for the Dungeons series of strategy games.As part of the deal, Kalypso Media not only increased its share from the original 60%, but also expanded the staff of Realmforge, as well as moved the team to a new office in Munich.

Epic Games has introduced an update for the Unreal Engine. A number of significant changes have been added to the engine version 4.26, including a new system of water and clouds, as well as an editor for creating realistic hair and wool.

Apple has started accepting applications to reduce the commission in the App Store for developers who earn less than $1 million a year. At the same time, the company spoke in detail about the conditions of participation in the program.

What impact does the gaming industry have on the US economy? The Association of Software and Games Manufacturers (ESA) told about this in its new report. Last year alone, the direct contribution of this sector to the American economy exceeded $40 billion.General data

BioWare is losing frames. General Manager Casey Hudson and Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah are leaving the company.

Sam & Max: Save the World remaster was released yesterday. The updated version was handled by the Skunkape studio, consisting of the developers of the original game. On this occasion, we gathered the opinions of critics about whether the team managed to breathe new life into the classic quest.About the game

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Vera Karpova, the product manager devtodev.

The creator of Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, together with other veterans of the Japanese industry, opened a new studio — Bokeh Game Studio. The developers have already started working on their own project in the spirit of the famous horror.

Developer Phoenix Labs, known for the Dauntless free-to-play role-playing game, has announced an expansion. The company is opening two new offices — in Montreal and Los Angeles – to work on future projects.The Montreal office will be managed by gaming industry veteran Andre Roy, who worked at Ubisoft on the Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six franchises.