Global Game Jam has an official Russian representative. It became Yulia Lebedeva, partner and Executive Director of WN Media Group. Her tasks will include working with local event organizers.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Alexander Derkach, the company’s marketing director, told us about how the year went for Playrix.

GamesIndustry edition.biz has published a large infographic with the results of 2021. The portal told about the total volume of the gaming market, the best-selling and downloaded titles, as well as about the most discussed companies and the number of new IP addresses from different publishers.The infographic is based on data from Newzoo (market size), Sensor Tower (mobile games), GfK (the best-selling games on physical media in the UK), Famitsu (the best-selling console games on…

The Blockchain Game Alliance coalition has prepared a detailed report on NFT games. In particular, she spoke about the sales of game tokens, the size of the audience of such titles, as well as about the main advantages and problems of the segment.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Alexander Pavlov, co-founder of Playkot.

In China, 武侠乂 (The Swordsmen X) is being prepared for release — a mobile battle royale in a historical setting and with an emphasis on hand-to-hand fighting. As noted by the local press, the game has a chance to become a hit in China. At the moment, 2 million users have already pre-registered in it.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up are interviews with representatives of Wargaming: Evgeny Krishtapovich, regional publishing Director of World of Tanks, Andrey Gruntov, regional publishing Director of World of Tanks Console, and Natalia Pershits, head of World of Tanks Blitz (MS-1 mobile development studio).

Wanted: Senior game designer at Wargaming, Unity developer at DS1 Games and interface designer at Targem Games.

Embracer Group announced the purchase of five companies at once, including Dark Horse and Perfect World Entertainment. The latter will become part of Gearbox Entertainment, and the deal itself will cost $ 125 million.Neverwinter

At the end of May, SberGames and Soyuzmultfilm agreed to make mobile educational games for children together. They have recently published their first projects, and now they have reported on the results.

Over the past year and a half, dozens of key developers who worked on its main AAA hits have left Ubisoft. The employees themselves call the situation a “Great Outcome” and note that this is an unprecedented phenomenon for the company. Among the reasons for leaving are low salaries, dissatisfaction with management and creative vision.

Rec Room is a social VR platform on which users can build their game worlds and communicate with each other. The company received $145 million from investors, as a result of which its valuation increased to $3.5 billion.

Newzoo analysts together with the Pangle platform have prepared a report on mobile RPG. They talked about the income of the genre, popular mechanics and monetization strategies, as well as the demographics of such games. We share the main thing from the study.

Kaliningrad studio Pictolabra stops working. Its employees believe that the decision to close was made by the MGVC investment fund. That’s just his share in the studio is less than one percent. We tried to understand the situation. Photo: Pictolabra official website

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Evgeny Polotnyanko, the head of the Odnoklassniki social network gaming platform.

Lithuanian developer and publisher Nordcurrent is expanding. At the end of last week, the company became the owner of the Ukrainian mobile studio RinGames. The full terms of the transaction are not disclosed.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Denis Khamin, co-owner of the game localization and 2D art outsourcing studio Allcorrect.

Russian censors can start using neural networks. One of the centers controlled by Roskomnadzor suggested using AI to search for prohibited content in video games. But, according to experts, this can seriously affect the availability of games.

Last week, the first place in the Steam bestseller chart was again taken by the Halo Infinite story campaign. But Cyberpunk 2077 and FIFA 22 this time could not get into the list of the best-selling games of the week.