Until recently, there was no unified age rating system in China. Now the country’s authorities have obliged game publishers to label their products. The practice is designed, among other things, to combat gambling addiction.Its introduction was announced by analyst Daniel Ahmad.

A lot of noise has been raised around the problematic release of Cyberpunk 2077. The gaming community blamed the title’s shortcomings on its developers, testers and, eventually, the owners of the platforms that certified the game — Sony and Microsoft. Rami Ismail, a well-known indie developer, explained how the certification process goes and why Sony and Microsoft should not be responsible for the shortcomings of Cyberpunk 2077.

Sensor Tower summed up the results of 2020 for mobile games. The leader in terms of revenue was PUBG Mobile, which, together with its Chinese version of Game For Peace, raised about $ 2.6 billion.

The authors of Genshin Impact made a collaboration with the famous Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva. She appeared in a new promotional trailer for their other game Honkai Impact 3rd.

High Voltage Software— an American studio with a 27-year history, has a new owner. The developer who participated in the creation of Fortnite, Mortal Kombat and the first Injustice will soon become part of the Keywords Studios group of companies. The deal will cost $50 million.

In the wake of the success of Among Us, other developers began to implement its mechanics. The first of the major companies was Epic Games, which added a similar “Spy, get out” mode to Fortnite.The launch of the temporary regime became known on December 15.

Wanted: advertising monetization specialist at Azur Games, game designer at Playgendary, Java developer at Belka Games and product manager at Playkot.

The next year for the Korean gaming company Joycity will begin with a large cash receipt. Publisher Tilting Point has agreed to invest $40 million to increase traffic for its mobile title Gunship Battle: Total Warfare.

EverMerge is a puzzle with merge mechanics from the Belarusian studio Neskin, which has become a big hit and has earned $50 million over the past seven months. Deconstructor of Fun has an analysis of the game with an analysis of the elements that helped it become successful.

During the winter holidays, revenue and downloads of games traditionally grow. This is reflected in the mobile advertising market, as well as the price per thousand impressions. At the same time, in order to maximize income, it is necessary to take into account, among other things, the peculiarities of individual regions.In the new Gamesindustry material.

A month ago, Apple obliged developers to indicate what data is collected in their applications. But only since yesterday, users have actually been able to see this marking in the App Store.

Facebook reported that in 2020, the authors of the Facebook Gaming streaming platform earned $ 50 million. The company also shared news about updating the donation system.In 2020, content creators on Facebook Gaming received over 5 billion stars — a special currency that is used as donations.

Roblox made two announcements at once. Firstly, it included Loom.ai — a company specializing in the development of three-dimensional avatars. Secondly, Roblox will appear on the stock exchange no earlier than January 2021.

Swedish banks have approved an unsecured revolving loan for SEK 3.75 ($447 million) for Stillfront Group. The company is going to spend this money on “further strengthening its growth.”

Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki, told App2Top how 2020 was for his company. He also shared the direction in which his company will develop next year.

It became known about a new large-scale competition for game developers. This time it is held by WN Conference with the active support of Unreal Engine and the Reboot Development conference.

Another industry veteran has launched a gaming startup. This time we are talking about Marcus Segal and Michael Pagano Doom from Zynga. They founded a studio that will focus exclusively on VR projects.

Nvidia provoked a scandal. She refused to provide video cards for review to the popular Hardware Unboxed channel due to the fact that its authors allegedly pay insufficient attention to the advantages of retracing. The company tried to apologize, but many reviewers found such a precedent outrageous.

Recruiters of gaming companies 4Friends, 101XP and Chillgaming — with the support of the Odnoklassniki social network – told about possible ways to get into gamedev.