The business processes of gaming and non-gaming companies differ dramatically, according to SuperData co-founder Joost van Dreunen. An analyst with twenty years of experience tells about this in the newly published book “One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games”. The pages contain an empirical analysis of innovations and strategies in the video game industry, refutation of industry myths and hundreds of case studies.

The Swedish holding Thunderful Group will include the British studio Coatsink Software, which is also working on a VR project on the “Jurassic World”. The transaction amount was $29.8 million.Thunderful Group will pay $14.9 million in cash and the same amount in shares.

Today, on October 6, a free online event on the legal aspects of the gaming business started. It’s called the Game Industry Legal Conference. During the first day, lawyers from Voodoo, ESA, Nexon, Playrix and a number of law firms specializing in the gaming business will speak.

The boom in investment in the gaming industry has not bypassed the VR segment. American Survios closed the fourth round of financing, during which it raised $16.7 million. The company will direct the money to “its own contribution to the development of the virtual metaverse.”

Kiev-based developer of social casinos Murka is going to push the ranks of the largest market players. The studio recently reported revenue growth of 44.6% year-on-year, and its estimated quarterly revenue was $40.5 million. This put Murka on the tenth line of the rating of the most successful companies in the segment.

Google has announced that it will not introduce a mandatory 30% commission on in-game purchases in the Play Store for India until 2022. This happened after local companies merged to create their own store without deductions.The new Play Store rules will come into force in September next year, obliging developers to pay 30% from each transaction within applications.

The MAU of the Huawei AppGallery app store, which is available in 170 countries, has reached 490 million people. The store also attracts a low commission, which does not apply to local developers from China.From the new material Pocket Gamer it became known that in the first three months of stay in the Huawei store, the number of downloads of Gameloft games increased seven times.

During the year, Call of Duty: Mobile managed to become one of the most successful mobile shooters. Sensor Tower reports that the revenue of the game has approached $ 500 million, and the project has a release in the Chinese market ahead.General information on Call of Duty: Mobile

Sensor Tower analysts studied the mobile gaming market and stated: in the third quarter of 2020, players spent $4.4 billion more than a year ago. We have highlighted the main thing from the company’s report.

A new GameDataCrunch project has appeared on the network, which collects data about games in one place based on third-party sites and open sources. The service does not provide information about sales, but gives access to metrics by which you can roughly judge the degree of success of different games.Who is behind the project?

Startups and India’s largest IT companies have teamed up against Google, which controls 99% of the smartphone market in the country. Local developers intend to create their own store in order not to pay a 30% commission on Google Play.What made Indian companies unite?

Good news from Belarus. Minsk-based game studio Neskin has received strategic investments from the Australian gambling giant Aristocrat, whose assets include such major gaming companies as Big Fish Games and Plarium.

The authors of the psychological horror Observer together with the Polish publisher Forever Entertainment founded the studio Fearful Entertainment. She will make remakes of famous horror franchises for Nintendo Switch.

Four years have passed since the launch of the Gardenscapes frituplein, but its indicators continue to grow. The DAU of the mobile title today is 11 million. In the year of the release of this match-3 game, it was 3.5 million.

The hub for publishing mods for NexusMods games has banned content about the US elections. At least until November 3, users will not be able to upload political mods to the portal.

The mobile version of Call of Duty continues to gain popularity. The monthly number of hours that users spend in the game, at its peak, approached 1 billion.On Android alone, players spent 850 million hours in Call of Duty: Mobile during the peak month.

We are posting a new issue of the program “Industry on Thursdays“. Yesterday our guest wasMaxim Fomichev, producer of Pixonic. We talked with him about how a major graphical update to War Robots is being prepared for release, including thanks to which the game was shown at the last Apple presentation.

Another gaming company may appear on the stock exchange. The media report on the plans of the social MMO Roblox to enter the securities market at the beginning of next year. At the same time, the company’s valuation may amount to $8 billion.

On October 1, Belka Games studio announced the launch of its first solitaire — Solitaire Cruise. The game began to earn rapidly even before the world release. Being in the softlonch, the game generated a million dollars. About the project and its first successes App2Top.ru I talked to the game team.