A month ago, Apple obliged developers to indicate what data is collected in their applications. But only since yesterday, users have actually been able to see this marking in the App Store.

Facebook reported that in 2020, the authors of the Facebook Gaming streaming platform earned $ 50 million. The company also shared news about updating the donation system.In 2020, content creators on Facebook Gaming received over 5 billion stars — a special currency that is used as donations.

Roblox made two announcements at once. Firstly, it included Loom.ai — a company specializing in the development of three-dimensional avatars. Secondly, Roblox will appear on the stock exchange no earlier than January 2021.

Swedish banks have approved an unsecured revolving loan for SEK 3.75 ($447 million) for Stillfront Group. The company is going to spend this money on “further strengthening its growth.”

Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki, told App2Top how 2020 was for his company. He also shared the direction in which his company will develop next year.

It became known about a new large-scale competition for game developers. This time it is held by WN Conference with the active support of Unreal Engine and the Reboot Development conference.

Another industry veteran has launched a gaming startup. This time we are talking about Marcus Segal and Michael Pagano Doom from Zynga. They founded a studio that will focus exclusively on VR projects.

Nvidia provoked a scandal. She refused to provide video cards for review to the popular Hardware Unboxed channel due to the fact that its authors allegedly pay insufficient attention to the advantages of retracing. The company tried to apologize, but many reviewers found such a precedent outrageous.

Recruiters of gaming companies 4Friends, 101XP and Chillgaming — with the support of the Odnoklassniki social network – told about possible ways to get into gamedev.

Versions of Cyberpunk 2077 for consoles of the last generation left many players disappointed. Four days after the CD release, Projekt RED decided to apologize for the unsuccessful launch and offered gamers two options: wait for patches or hand over the game.

The gaming industry in the UK continues to show growth. Over the past year, the contribution of this sector to the country’s economy amounted to almost $4 billion. In this case, we are talking only about activities related to the development and publication of games.This became known from a new economic report prepared by the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS).

Immediately after the opening of the exchange this morning, CD Projekt quotes experienced another drop. They fell to March values when it became known that the studio would start developing a new “Witcher” only after the release of Cyberpunk 2077.

The deal between Take-Two and Codemasters will not take place. Suddenly, EA announced its desire to buy a British studio, which offered Dirt developers $ 200 million more.

Marketers Nikita Okan and Margarita Nikolaeva, who participated in the promotion of Hustle Castle, Zero City, Tacticool, Love Sick and many other games, prepared an ultimatum guide for setting up advertising campaigns on Facebook. It concerns both the preparation of UA purchases at the early stages, and working with traffic at the global launch of the game.

Cyberpunk 2077 was released on December 10, but CD Projekt has already recouped the costs of developing and promoting the game. All thanks to the proceeds from pre-orders.

The Wargaming case against Blitz Team continues to evolve. The Belarusian court sided with the former employees of the company, who were accused of violating intellectual property and unfair competition, and denied the claim for $ 1.69 million.What happened?

Director J. J. Abrams (J. J. Abrams) does not give up trying to do games. His film studio Bad Robot Productions has already formed a second gaming division. The place of the head went to Michael Booth, the leading game designer of Left 4 Dead.

Zynga has published a study on the behavior of users of its mobile games and their attitude to advertising. It turned out that the company’s projects are played mainly by parents, and the overwhelming number of respondents launch games to escape from reality.Zynga prepared the report jointly with the National Research Group.

While Sony and Microsoft were launching a new generation of consoles, Nintendo was successfully selling its “old” console. November Switch sales were higher than any other consoles in the US market.