GameRefinery has published a large study of the American social casino market. The dominance of slots in this category continues — they account for most of the total revenue. Analysts also talked about the main trends and mechanics that distinguish social casinos from other genres.The main thing from the report

What is the average salary of game developers in the market, how many of them are women, does higher education affect wages — these and many other questions are answered by a new salary study from Talents In Games and App2Top.ru .

Swedish holding Embracer Group is preparing for new purchases. The company announced the issue of 36 million new Class B shares and now plans to earn 7.6 billion Swedish kronor ($893.9 million) on this.

In February, Gismart released two of its games at once. One of them — the Pencil Rush 3D hyper—casual arcade – turned out to be a hit. Its monthly downloads amounted to more than 8.3 million. With App2Top.ru the British-Belarusian developer shared what metrics the game had at the start.

The 1v1Me app has been launched on iOS, which allows you to bet on matches in online games. Currently, access to it can be obtained only by invitation. However, its authors have already raised $2 million for the development of their startup.The company 1v1Me was founded by young entrepreneurs Anthony Geranio and Alex Emmanuel.

Anthony and Joe Russo (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo), who directed the last two parts of “The Avengers”, turned out to be big Fortnite fans. So much so that they even helped Epic Games create the sixth season of the second chapter of the battle royale.

Wanted: WannaPlay IT recruiter, mobile game monetization manager at DP SPACE and 3D environment artist at Kevuru Games.

The State Duma adopted amendments to the law on education in the third reading. Now educational activities will be regulated by federal ministries. Experts directly call it censorship. However, it is still unclear whether the new law will affect courses and conferences related to the gaming industry.The text of the adopted amendments to the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” is published on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The Epic Games team decided to take up the improvement of social functions in their store. For example, now they want to add group chats to it. But personal messages will be removed for a while.

Sensor Tower analysts in a recent study decided to see how the mobile puzzle genre was doing in 2020. It turned out that it was not bad. During the year, US gamers left more than $4.6 billion in such games. Among the highest-grossing projects, two games from Playrix were noted at once (and another one became the leader in downloads).

While 50 Activision Blizzard employees are out of work, its CEO will receive a huge bonus. Bobby Kotick will be paid $200 million for the fact that the company’s shares continue to grow. However, a group of investors considers such payments excessive and wants to revise the amount of remuneration for the publisher’s management.Bobby Kotick can count on such an impressive bonus thanks to a clause in his contract called “Shareholder Value Creation Incentive”.

Overwolf startup continues to develop its platform, which allows you to create and install mods and applications for games. Together with the launch of the new SDK, the company announced the attraction of investments in the amount of $52.5 million. She hopes to become a YouTube for modders.According to GamesBeat, the main investors in Round C were Griffin Gaming Partners and Insight Partners.

After a series of failures at Google and EA, well-known producer and developer Jade Raymond announced the creation of an independent Haven studio. She will develop a new IP. Sony will finance the project.Jade Raymond told about this in the PlayStation blog.

Another wave of cuts in Activision Blizzard. On Tuesday, the company announced the dismissal of 50 employees involved in organizing esports tournaments and other offline events for Overwatch and Call of Duty. But journalist Jason Schreier talked to his own sources and said — in fact, there may be much more dismissed.

On July 1, Google will reduce the commission in the mobile Play store to 15%. As in the case of Apple, there were some reservations, but they are of a completely different nature.

Grand Theft Auto Online has incredibly long downloads. Not so long ago, a user under the nickname t0st wrote that he knows how to reduce them by 70%. His decision was approved by Rockstar, which has already included the programmer’s achievements in the official patch.

The authorities are discussing the creation of a special fund to support Russian online content. It will work by analogy with the Cinema Fund. At the same time, not only TV series creators, but also video game developers will be able to count on subsidies.The plans to create a Fund for Russian online content were reported by RBC with reference to sources familiar with the situation.

Last week, a scandal broke out around FIFA 21, which has already been called EAGate. Electronic Arts employees were accused of selling rare Ultimate Team player cards to individual users. The company launched an internal audit and promised to punish those responsible. However, the problem with loot boxes in FIFA is much deeper.What started EAGate?

How many gamers are there in Russia who want to work in the gaming industry? What areas are they interested in? What do their parents think about it? — Kaspersky Lab decided to answer such questions together with the analytical company Savanta.