The GitHyp website, which collects game statistics, noticed that Cyberpunk 2077 lost 79% of Steam players a month after its release. The CD Projekt game still shows excellent online, but its previous hit The Witcher 3 at one time managed to keep users many times longer.On the release day, December 10, the peak online Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam exceeded 1 million people.

SuperData spoke about the success of the gaming industry in 2020. Last year, digital sales reached $126.6 billion, and the list of the best-selling premium titles included Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Cyberpunk 2077.

During the New Year holidays, the Rust survival simulator, released back in December 2013, updated several of its own records at once. Firstly, the peak online gaming on Twitch has surpassed the mark of 1 million viewers. Secondly, the number of simultaneous players on Steam has exceeded 240 thousand.The developers announced about overcoming the milestone of 1 million simultaneous viewers on Twitch on January 3.

How was the year for META Publishing, — said the founder of the company Ilya Salamatov.

In details about the work on A/B tests, they tellIlya Tumenko, Publishing Director at AppQuantum, and Oleg Semenov, Marketing Lead at Appbooster.

Sergey Neskin, CEO of Neskin Games, spoke about the company’s successes in the past year.

On the eve of the New Year, Nintendo has published a list of indie games that have become bestsellers for Switch in 2020. Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Hades and Spiritfarer, among others, were noted as sales leaders.

Tanya Loktionova, founder of Values Value, spoke about the challenges of 2020 and the company’s success in the game development recruiting market.

Wanted: middle- and senior-developers on Unity at Murka Games, UA-manager at Playrix and game designer at Targem Games.

CD Projekt is preparing for trial with disgruntled investors. The studio said that it has faced at least one lawsuit and is now going to take the most “decisive” actions to protect itself.

How to conduct effective events in mobile games to get high engagement and ARPDAU, — Louise Lu, Assistant Product Manager at Tilting Point, told on the example of Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest. We have selected the main tips from the material.

The number of new installations of Survival Hunter Games: American Archer in AppGallery has reached 1 million in five months. We talked with the Russian representative of the store and found out how unique this result is for the site, as well as which other games have achieved similar indicators.To achieve such results in a few months, the game from Aeria Canada studio was helped by a direct partnership with AppGallery.

A sample of the publishing contract published by Raw Fury last week caused a great resonance among industry workers. In his blog on Gamasutra, gaming expert Simon Carless analyzed its main conditions, and also talked about the pros and cons of the contract with the publisher.About the author: Simon Carless is a former game designer who worked at Atari and Eidos Interactive, as well as the founder of the GameDiscoverCo platform, which advises publishers and…

The Catholic Christmas of 2020 turned out to be very monetary for the gaming mobile. The analytical company Sensor Tower told about this in its report. We have chosen the main one from it.

Steam has updated its own Christmas record for the number of simultaneous users. On December 25, there were 23 million users on the network. This is almost one and a half times more than at Christmas 2019.

Another cloud gaming service has appeared. It was launched by Sber, which continues to develop new business areas. Participation in the beta of the service is free, but there are a couple of nuances — it will last only a month and will require a special console.

A few days before the New Year, Valve decided to tell us which games were the most successful on Steam in 2020.

According to new data from IDC, the total revenue of the gaming industry for this year will approach $ 180 billion. This was influenced by both the release of next-generation consoles and mobile, which accounted for almost half of the total amount.The results of the IDC report were published on the MarketWatch website.

Almost four years after the release of NieR: Automata managed to overcome the milestone of 5 million copies sold. The statistics included both digital and disk sales of the title.