Remedy has published a financial report for 2020. During this time, Control’s sales exceeded the mark of 2 million copies, and revenue exceeded €40 million. The company also shared its development strategy for the next five years.Key indicators for the year

British Pole To Win, specializing in outsourcing for gaming and technology companies, has acquired 5518 Studio, based in Russia. The latter made art for a lot of high-profile titles. Among them are Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Fortnite.

In 2009, Konami canceled the Six Days in Fallujah military shooter about the Iraq War after a barrage of criticism. 11 years later, the development of the game unexpectedly resumed, but with the help of a new studio and publisher. The team is led by former Bungie employees who worked on Halo and Destiny.

Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Entertainment reported for the fourth quarter of 2020 (October-December). It turned out to be successful in many respects. The publisher’s own revenues during this time exceeded the mark of 335.3 million Swedish kronor ($ 40.2 million), and the revenue of individual games increased by an impressive 250%.

Todd Kuhns, marketing manager at AppInChina, told about what a game publisher might face when coming to China in his report for WN Winter’21.  We offer a short version of his speech.

The developer of the Unreal Engine has presented a tool that allows you to make a realistic digital model of a person in a few minutes — MetaHuman Creator. The technology is not yet without the effect of the “sinister valley”, but it is free. We chose the main thing about the Epic Games project and gathered the opinion of the gaming community.

Today was the release of Little Nightmares 2, a continuation of the platformer of the same name with elements of horror. The profile press praises the game for the atmosphere and outstanding sound, while noticing a number of shortcomings. Now the average score of Little Nightmares 2 on Metacritic is 82/100.About the game

devtodev now has full support for SQL queries right in the service interface. It replaced SQL Wizard, which was limited to a custom set of functions.The main advantage of implementing full SQL support is the use of virtually any data that the devtodev platform has collected about events in the game.

Which categories of iOS games have the lowest share of non-branded traffic? — the analytical company ASOdesk asked this question in its research. The figures were revealed as part of WN Winter’21. We share the material prepared on the basis of the speech.

The domestic Kefir decided to support the open source Godot Engine. The developers have allocated a grant to its owners in the amount of $ 120 thousand.

The Viking survival Valheim, which recently conquered the Steam charts, has crossed the milestone of one million copies sold. It took the game only one week.

What the product manager (PM) is responsible for, whether his responsibilities depend on the company, what professional qualities are important to him — we talked about this and much more during WN Winter’21 with Chong Ahn, Head of Product Management at Electronic Arts.

The third fiscal quarter of last year was an outstanding one for Ubisoft (it ended for it on December 31). During this time, the company earned more than €1 billion for the first time and increased MAU to 40 million users. The French publisher shared such results in the latest report and during a conversation with investors.

Ubisoft has shared its plans for the next financial year. The company decided to abandon the model in which the main focus is on expensive AAA games. Now the publisher will begin to actively develop freeplay projects and support previously released titles.Ubisoft told about this during a call with investors as part of summing up the results of the third financial quarter (ended December 31).

tinyBuild has announced the acquisition of three studios at once. Among the publisher’s new assets are We’re Five Games, as well as Russian companies Moon Moose and Hungry Couch. The amount and other financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.tinyBuild announced this on its official website.

Sometimes just spending a lot of effort on development is not enough for success. We need to look for other solutions. Which ones,” Diego Diaz, CEO of Koron Studios, told WN Winter’21 online conference.

Wanted: a game designer at Last Level, a project manager at Kefir and a leading level artist to work on a Russian AAA game.

Chinese giant Tencent continues to expand. This time, the company bought a minority stake in the Czech studio Bohemia Interactive, known for the franchises DayZ and Arma.

Blizzard turned 30 yesterday. In honor of the anniversary, the company shares early concepts of its classic games, including WarCraft and Diablo, on social networks.Blizzard publishes archival materials in the official Twitter accounts of World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch under the hashtag #FromTheVault.