Spire of Sorcery is a turn—based RPG from the creators of Gremlins, Inc. Despite the large number of vishlists, less than 1,500 copies were sold in the first week. Sergey Klimov, the founder of Charlie Oscar, spoke about the reasons for the failure, including a sharp change of concept, blind faith in success and confusion with different versions of the game.

In July last year, a scandal broke out around Activision Blizzard about the toxic working atmosphere in the company. Yesterday it became known that since then the publisher has fired more than three dozen employees and brought 40 more people to disciplinary responsibility.

A new studio Made on Earth Games has appeared. It was founded by Yuri Krasilnikov, former vice president for development of Belka Games, and Alexey Ilyin, producer and creator of the Interactive Cartoon studio. With the support of The Games Fund, the team will develop a mobile 4X strategy.Yuri Krasilnikov and Alexey Ilyin

Mobile action games are the fastest—growing genre at the box office in the USA. The analytical company Sensor Tower estimated that in 2021 their total revenue jumped by 68.9% year-on-year. Other genres had more modest growth rates.

Czech MADFINGER Games, known primarily for AAA games for mobile, decided to make an exclusive for PC. Along with the platform, the company will also change the engine — the novelty will be developed not on Unity, but on Unreal Engine 5.

Indie platformer Neko Ghost, Jump! generated over 17 thousand vishlist before the release. However, the launch turned out to be a complete failure — only 100 copies were sold on the first day. Developer Victor Burgos tried to figure out the reasons for the failure, and industry colleagues joined the discussion.

A little over a year has passed since the worldwide release of Solitaire Cruise. During this time, the project has managed to grow greatly and enter the box office top 3 tapeworms in the world. In this regard, Belka Games talked about how the first twelve months of surgery went for the project team.

Last week, Tencent invested in another gaming company. She acquired a minority stake in the Polish THE PARASIGHT. It is not known how much the purchase cost.

Three days ago, on January 14, God of War was officially released on PC. The game immediately climbed to the top of the weekly Steam bestseller chart, shifting Ready or Not. The shooter stayed in first place for three weeks in a row.

Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm has prepared a large-scale report on the largest legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has released a report on the local IT market. In it, it calculated how many high-tech companies there are in the country. Including games.

As one of the advantages of gaming NFT, the concept of transferring such items between different titles is often mentioned. Most often, people who are far from the industry talk about this. Developer and gaming consultant Rami Ismail (Rami Ismail), using the example of creating a simple playing cube, explained why such an idea is basically doomed to failure.

Consulting firm Games One told which game companies’ CEOs earned the most in 2020. Three people have an annual income of over $ 100 million. Among them are Robert Antokol from Playtika and Bobby Kotick from Activision Blizzard.

Unlike most mobile genres, hypercage’s downloads grew in 2021. And at a rapid pace. Neither the “base effect” nor the IDFA story prevented this.

Korean Krafton demanded to remove Free Fire from mobile stores. She is unhappy with the excessive similarity of this battle royale and her PUBG game. The company has already filed a lawsuit, in which it also mentioned Apple and Google, for not preventing the distribution of the “fake”.

The story about the development of the Doom port for the 3DO console has begun to gain popularity again on the web. The person who bought the rights was sure that it was enough to simply copy the files from the PC version, and new weapons could be added simply in the form of pictures. Now this story is being compared to people’s fantasies about transferring NFT items between different games.

On January 4, a cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic appeared in the PlayStation Plus subscription. In the first week, Sony game console owners downloaded the game 6 million times. Before the game appeared in the service, its cumulative sales across all platforms were 3 million copies.

Last October, indie publisher Armor Games offered its employees to temporarily switch to a four-day working week. The experiment was supposed to end on December 31, but the company considered such a schedule convenient and decided never to work on Fridays again.

Apple has changed the prices in the App Store for a number of regions again. We are also talking about Ukraine. This is due to a new local law that obliges international Internet companies to pay VAT of 20% on the territory of the country.Apple announced the pricing policy changes to the developers on January 12.