About a week remains until the publication of CD Projekt‘s annual report on the results of 2020, but the Polish holding is already impatient to share a couple of preliminary figures. The creators of Cyberpunk 2077 said that last year the company’s earnings increased more than two and a half times compared to the record 2015. Recall that it was then that they released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

The mechanics of season passes have gained popularity due to the success of Fortnite and PUBG Mobile. But not only these games have made good money on it. Sensor Tower analysts told what other mobile projects managed to seriously increase revenue after the introduction of seasonal passes. There is a game from Playrix in the list.

Many experts in the gaming industry are afraid that they will not be able to save enough money and retire. Some even think that they will have to work until they die. Both indie developers and industry veterans, like game designer Josh Sawyer, shared their opinions on this topic.

Epic Games has announced the release of the MetaHuman Creator editor in early access. It allows you to create realistic human models in a few minutes.

Wanted: producer of creatives at WazzApps, game designer of VR games at SPL and art director at Mobirate.

AppLovin marketing platform has finally entered the stock exchange. As part of the initial public offering, the company raised $1.8 billion, and its valuation approached $30 billion.AppLovin listed its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange at a price of $80 apiece.

The Battle Royale of Apex Legends, developed by Respawn and published by Electronic Arts, continues to develop and gain popularity (albeit not as actively as at the start). Now the game has overcome an important milestone of 100 million players.Developers from Respawn announced this achievement on Twitter.

A new player has appeared in the game project financing market — FM.digital company. She is ready to allocate up to $ 500,000 to developers of mobile games and applications for promotion at the expense of future revenue and not take a share in the business at the same time.

The market of peripheral devices is experiencing a real boom, and not the last role in this is given to female gamers. According to the calculations of the analytical company Newzoo, almost half of the actively playing women are ready to buy peripherals for consoles and PCs. But most of them have one important condition — the price should not exceed $ 100.

With a look at what principles a game designer should adhere to in his work, — in his column on App2Top.ru shared Eduard Kumykov, the lead game designer of the Solitaire Cruise project from Belka Games (according to App Annie, she is now among the top 20 highest-grossing publishers in EMEA).

China’s ByteDance continues to strengthen its gaming business. The company announced that its Nuverse gaming division has acquired Beijing-based studio C4games. The latter is known for the mobile game Red Alert Online.

The Chinese authorities are going to tighten the regulation of developers. To do this, a special game rating system is being introduced in the country. Projects will be evaluated according to several criteria at once, which will form an overall assessment on a five-point system. Games that have received a low score will not be allowed to be released.Perfect World

The industrial giant ByteDance is on the verge of entering the stock market. Chinese media report that TikTok owners are actively preparing for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It is assumed that the capitalization of the company after him will reach an astronomical $ 400 billion.

Creative Assembly continues to expand. Now 800 people work in the company’s three studios, which makes the authors of the Total War series the largest game developer in the UK.Photo: Creative Assembly

Ilya Eremeev and Maria Kochmola, with the participation of Sergey Titov and GEM Capital, launched a gaming investment fund. It’s called The Games Fund. We talked to his co—founders about how he works and what projects he is ready to invest in.

The Games Fund is a new early—stage venture fund that specializes in investing in game developers from Eastern Europe. It was founded by people from MGVC, Riot Games and GEM Capital, and its size will be $ 50 million.The Games Fund notes that the size of the investment depends on the round of portfolio companies.

The turnover of another gaming market has updated the historical maximum. This time we are talking about Italy. Last year, local gamers spent over €2 billion on games for the first time. That’s just the number of Italians playing games has decreased slightly — to 16.7 million people (in 2019 there were 17 million of them).

The Kongregate game portal is gradually moving away from publishing ambitions and is paying more and more attention to internal development. According to the company’s management, now it intends to focus on creating idle games popular among its users. Many of the new projects will be made under license.

Epic Games has attracted additional investments in the amount of $ 1 billion. This, among other things, made it possible to strengthen cooperation with Sony, which this time invested an additional $ 200 million in the company. Epic Games’ total valuation was $28.7 billion.Epic Games announced the closing of the investment round today on its official website.