The top genres in terms of revenue in the niche of erotic games are the same as on mobile: role—playing games with gacha, as well as three-in-a-row. Grigory Sokolov, senior designer at Nutaku Publishing, told about this at the online Talents in Games Conference.

The analytical company NPD Group found out how 2020 affected the gaming habits of Americans. Among the topics covered in the report are demographic trends, the most popular platforms and features of gamers’ spending during the pandemic.

Wanted: motion designer at ZiMAD, Unity developer at Murka Games, game designer at PlayMe8 and technical artist for the development of the Russian AAA game.

Odnoklassniki reported record daily revenue. During Black Friday, users of the social network spent over 47 million rubles in games.Results of the promotion

On December 3, Immortals Fenyx Rising will be released, a new Ubisoft project that has often been compared to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In fact, the games did not have as much in common as it might seem at first glance. The media praise the plot and the Immortals combat system, but criticize the project for puzzles and secondary.

This summer, the Moscow studio Crazy Panda held a large-scale event for employees. It took place in an online format. How it was, — the event manager of the company Olga Agafonova told.

Omdia analysts talked about the future of the virtual reality market. By 2025, spending on VR content alone will exceed $4 billion. But really mass VR will not become until the 2030s.

While multiplayer GTA V and Call of Duty: Black Ops III are leading in the top sales for PS4, Sony itself says — in fact, players like single-player games much more. That’s just that users have almost no time for them. The company offers developers to disclose information about the length of quests and allow gamers to run tasks in a convenient sequence.

Polish studio Anshar Studios is working on an isometric role-playing game Gamedec, based on the cyberpunk book series of the same name. The project, in which the player will investigate crimes in virtual worlds, has already attracted $ 170 thousand on Kickstarter.

The Ministry of Health of Russia is preparing a package of amendments to the law on the rights of the child. The innovations will make it possible to conduct an examination of computer games for the “possible risk to the mental health” of children. If such a risk is detected, the games will be banned for distribution.

The musical game Muse Dash has a unique story. Thanks to UGC videos in TikTok, she got into the tops. The stars might not have come together if it wasn’t for the application for creating interactive wallpapers for the desktop.

This summer, the Polish studio Phobia Game Studio released a horror-metroidvaniya called Carrion. How the idea of the project came about, what I had to face when creating a navigation system for an amorphous monster, and whether there will be Carrion crossovers with other titles — said level designer Krzysztof Chomicki.

The new Supercell game earned $1 million in softlonch. Apparently, this was not enough. The Finnish giant has announced that it will close the Hay Day Pop project, which has not been released worldwide, in the winter of 2021.

Developers of fan games for free Cave Story are forced to curtail their work. Nicalis, the publisher of Metroidvania’s paid ports, accused these projects of copyright infringement.

Next year, the French indie studio Un Je Ne Sais Quoi will release the adventure game Dordogne. It will be a pastoral watercolor story, immersing in the world of childhood memories. In an interview with Gamasutra, the art director of the project shared the nuances of game development.

Yesterday it became known that Huawei will support indie developers who work with the AppGallery store. A representative of the Russian division of the company said App2Top.ru about the terms of the promotion and ways to support independent projects.The total prize fund of the promotion is € 30 thousand.

Initially, the deadline for the sale of TikTok assets in the United States expired today, November 27. However, the country’s authorities gave ByteDance a one-week delay so that the company could have time to conclude the necessary deal.According to the new decision of the Administration of President Donald Trump, the deadline for the sale of TikTok’s American assets will expire on December 4.

The Russian UNIGINE engine has received a large-scale update. The developers have added new features to it, which can also be used for game development. Among them are updated clouds and a new smoothing technology.

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia may soon become the largest shareholder of the Japanese studio SNK — developers of the Metal Slug series. He is suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.