The gaming industry in the UK continues to show growth. Over the past year, the contribution of this sector to the country’s economy amounted to almost $4 billion. In this case, we are talking only about activities related to the development and publication of games.This became known from a new economic report prepared by the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS).

Immediately after the opening of the exchange this morning, CD Projekt quotes experienced another drop. They fell to March values when it became known that the studio would start developing a new “Witcher” only after the release of Cyberpunk 2077.

The deal between Take-Two and Codemasters will not take place. Suddenly, EA announced its desire to buy a British studio, which offered Dirt developers $ 200 million more.

Marketers Nikita Okan and Margarita Nikolaeva, who participated in the promotion of Hustle Castle, Zero City, Tacticool, Love Sick and many other games, prepared an ultimatum guide for setting up advertising campaigns on Facebook. It concerns both the preparation of UA purchases at the early stages, and working with traffic at the global launch of the game.

Cyberpunk 2077 was released on December 10, but CD Projekt has already recouped the costs of developing and promoting the game. All thanks to the proceeds from pre-orders.

The Wargaming case against Blitz Team continues to evolve. The Belarusian court sided with the former employees of the company, who were accused of violating intellectual property and unfair competition, and denied the claim for $ 1.69 million.What happened?

Director J. J. Abrams (J. J. Abrams) does not give up trying to do games. His film studio Bad Robot Productions has already formed a second gaming division. The place of the head went to Michael Booth, the leading game designer of Left 4 Dead.

Zynga has published a study on the behavior of users of its mobile games and their attitude to advertising. It turned out that the company’s projects are played mainly by parents, and the overwhelming number of respondents launch games to escape from reality.Zynga prepared the report jointly with the National Research Group.

While Sony and Microsoft were launching a new generation of consoles, Nintendo was successfully selling its “old” console. November Switch sales were higher than any other consoles in the US market.

On the night of December 10-11, the game analogue of the Oscar was held — The Game Awards 2020. In addition to the awards itself, it also hosted a number of announcements and debut screenings of gameplay for the expected games. We have made a selection of the brightest projects from the event.

The large-scale show The Game Awards 2020 took place this night. It traditionally celebrates the best games of the year. This year, the largest number of awards — six statuettes at once — went to The Last of Us Part II. Also, two received Among Us and Hades at once.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Ivan Kozyev, director of analytics at Crazy Panda Studio.

Testing of new sections of the store has started on Steam. Now the entire catalog of games is divided into 63 categories — both genre and special, like adult-only content. All this is designed to simplify the search process and make it more flexible.The updated categories became available today as part of a new experiment in Steam Labs.

Rollic continues to expand its gaming portfolio. The company acquired the rights to the Onnect puzzle by the Turkish developer Chef Game Studio. The purchase amount was $6 million.VentureBeat reports that the deal also provides for an additional payment of $1 million.

Where should I start hyper-casual game design: with core mechanics or meta games? What should be the approach to promoting hyper-casual titles? Christian Calderon, the former chief marketing officer of PlayDots and the current CEO of Gamejam, told about this and not only.

The performance of the versions of Cyberpunk 2077 for PS4 and Xbox One remained a mystery before the release, as the developers provided review copies exclusively for PC. As a result, for many owners of consoles of the last generation, the project turned out to be almost unplayable.Cyberpunk 2077 Picture Difference between Xbox One and Powerful PC

By the end of November App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

In a recent study, Vorhaus Advisors analysts asked the question: how would users react to the fact that in—game purchases from one game could be moved to another or even sold to other gamers? As it turned out, 64% of American players were interested in such mechanics at once.

The release of Cyberpunk 2077 is expected to cause a big stir among the players. Over 1 million people played the game on Steam at the same time, breaking the site’s online record on launch day.Now the online of the new CD Projekt RED game is 796,150 people, and at its peak since the release, 1,003,264 Steam users played it at the same time.