Activision Blizzard quotes have reached record levels. Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, the value of one share of the company managed to overcome the $95.08 milestone for the first time in 37 years.

Rumors have been confirmed that it was Opera that acquired the GameMaker company YoYo Games from Playtech for $ 10 million. At the same time, the browser developers launched a gaming division — Opera Gaming.

The music label Materia Collective, specializing in game soundtracks, was at the center of the scandal. The composer of B-sides* for Celeste stated that the company has not paid him royalties for almost two years. At least eight other people have joined the prosecution.

Motorsport Games, which develops racing games under a NASCAR license, has entered the stock market. At the start, the company raised $ 69 million, and its market capitalization was estimated at $ 510 million.On the first day of trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange, Motorsport Games shares increased in price by 50% — from $20 to $ 30.

MAG Interactive presented a report for the first fiscal quarter (September-November 2020). During this period, the authors of the QuizDuel verbal quiz earned $7.5 million and increased ARPDAU by almost half.General data

Unexpected news. In the city on the Neva River, on the basis of the Plamee studio, the daughter of an American game publisher — Tilting Point will appear. Now there is a search for employees.

Hitman 3 was released today, and the profile press was delighted with it. Journalists praise IO Interactive for its detailed levels and variability, and some call the project the best game about Agent 47. Now the average score of Hitman 3 on Metacritic is 88/100.About the game

Bohemia Interactive talked about its successes in 2020. In the report, Czech developers mostly went through old and new projects, and also revealed plans for this year.

Stream/podcast on a legal topic. Together with Roman Lukyanov, managing partner of Semenov &Pevzner, we discuss numerous lawsuits against CD Projekt, as well as the desire of the Ministry of Health to suspend the circulation of violent video games in Russia.

The game Auto Chess originally appeared as a mod for Dota 2. Now the developers of the popular autobattler have announced a mobile MOBA with characters from their project.

While the latest mobile projects on “Star Wars” practically do not generate revenue, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes collects really astronomical revenue. To date, the title’s earnings have exceeded $ 1.2 billion.

Pixonic aggressively attracted new media sources to expand the audience of its games, which inevitably led to an increase in the number of fraud. To solve this problem, Pixonic turned to AppsFlyer and started using Protect360.

The PUBG-owned company Krafton has started preparing for an IPO. It may become the largest in the history of South Korea. According to preliminary estimates, the capitalization of the holding will exceed $ 27 billion.

Playtech sold the studio to YoYo Games five years after the purchase. The amount of the transaction was only $ 10 million, and Opera presumably became the new owner of the authors of the GameMaker game engine.The completion of the deal was first reported by Reuters last week.

China’s mobile market is undergoing significant changes. They are clearly visible on the example of the conflict between Huawei and the publisher Tencent, which does not want to pay a 50% commission to the store. Analysts believe that now it is not content distribution channels that come out in the first place, but its quality. So local Android stores may soon lose their influence.The essence of the conflict between Tencent and Huawei

Shares of another gaming company will appear on the stock market. This time, Huuuge Games announced its intention to conduct an IPO. The developer of social casinos expects to attract at least $150 million.

Distributor Limited Run Games boasts a major achievement. Three days ago, the pre-order of the physical reissue of Scott Pilgrim vs started. the World: The Game — Complete Edition. During this time, the game was ordered 60 thousand times.

The problem of crunches in the gaming industry is widely covered in the media, but rarely it comes to processing among journalists. Former employees of the popular YouTube channel GameXplain accused the management of the lack of compensation for the sleepless nights they spent trying to have time to release a review by the deadline.

InvestGame analysts have prepared a study on transactions in the gaming industry over the past year. It turned out to be fruitful. The volume of investments, public offerings and M&A agreements reached $33.6 billion.