This weekend, five resonant events related to Cyberpunk 2077 happened at once — from the next excuses of the CD Projekt RED management to the recommendations of analysts to sell the studio. We have prepared a digest in which we talked about everything in detail.

Google has slightly updated the icons in the Play Store. Thanks to the innovation, users can see whether an application is falling or growing in the charts.Now you can see an arrow under the position of the application or game in the chart.

With this publication, we end the “Results 2020” cycle, in which, together with top managers and experts from the gaming industry (and related ones), we summed up the results of last year. The latest material is an interview with Alek Pakulski, Vice PresidentKool Things, a Polish company specializing in gaming PR.  

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Vladislav Arkhipov, an advisor to Dentons‘ Russian practice in the field of intellectual property and a professor at St. Petersburg State University.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview withKonstantin Kolodezny, CBDO of SunStrike.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Andrey Yanchenko, co-founder and general producer of Deus Craft.

Tomorrow Valve will start testing the official version of Steam for China. However, local users expressed their dissatisfaction with what was happening. They fear that they will soon be deprived of the opportunity to play thousands of games due to the unavailability of the international version of the store.What is the dissatisfaction of gamers?

The event is called WN Winter’21. The days of its holding are from February 8 to 12. Among the participating companies: EA, Wargaming, SEGA, Ubisoft and many others.

Mobile publisher Playtika held an IPO. As a result of the initial public offering, the company managed to sell almost 70 million shares and raise $1.88 billion.Initially, the shares of the Israeli publisher were estimated at $22-24 apiece.

Facebook has published the results of a large-scale study on the behavior of mobile gamers in 2020. The company told how the preferences of users and their purchasing power have changed, and compiled a portrait of new gamers — those who started playing only after the lockdown.Research methodology

The Italian publisher 505 Games— a subsidiary of Digital Bros, has made a new acquisition. It includes Infinity Plus Two, best known for the Warlords, Warlords Battlecry and Puzzle Quest franchises.

Apple continued large-scale blocking in the Chinese App Store. Rumors about this appeared at the beginning of last December, and by the end of the month 48 thousand games had disappeared from the store at once.

The gaming results of 2020 were summed up by Odnoklassniki. The social network reported that the total payments to all developers over the past year will exceed 3 billion rubles. The company calls HTML5 games the main driver of the platform’s growth.You can get acquainted with the full results for all Odnoklassniki services here.

Steam shared the results of last year. The platform described in detail what changes 2020 brought to it, and also published statistics with its business indicators. Below are the main ones.

Yesterday Ubisoft announced a new open-world game in the Star Wars universe. Immediately after that, the company’s shares rose in price. However, the project is likely to be released only after Disney‘s exclusive contract with Electronic Arts ends.The Swedish studio Massive Entertainment, known for the franchise The Division, is developing a new game.

Duncan Jones (Duncan Jones), known for the film adaptation of “Warcraft”, turned out to be a big fan of the classic quest Full Throttle. The director shared his 94-page script of the film based on the game, although he has no plans to shoot.Jones was inspired to write the script by a tweet from Tim Schafer, head of the Double Fine studio and creator of the original game.

Marcin Iwiński, co-founder of CD Projekt RED, explained why the release of Cyberpunk 2077 turned out to be so problematic, and outlined the game’s development plan.

Wanted: art recruiter at MYTONA, junior level designer at Friday’s Games, technical artist at Deus Craft and backend programmer at WN Media Group.

The analytical company App Annie has presented a large report on the mobile market for 2020. It turned out that most of the revenue was provided by hardcore players. It also became known from the material which gameplay features were the most effective in terms of monetization.Comparison of different types of players