The new Supercell game earned $1 million in softlonch. Apparently, this was not enough. The Finnish giant has announced that it will close the Hay Day Pop project, which has not been released worldwide, in the winter of 2021.

Developers of fan games for free Cave Story are forced to curtail their work. Nicalis, the publisher of Metroidvania’s paid ports, accused these projects of copyright infringement.

Next year, the French indie studio Un Je Ne Sais Quoi will release the adventure game Dordogne. It will be a pastoral watercolor story, immersing in the world of childhood memories. In an interview with Gamasutra, the art director of the project shared the nuances of game development.

Yesterday it became known that Huawei will support indie developers who work with the AppGallery store. A representative of the Russian division of the company said App2Top.ru about the terms of the promotion and ways to support independent projects.The total prize fund of the promotion is € 30 thousand.

Initially, the deadline for the sale of TikTok assets in the United States expired today, November 27. However, the country’s authorities gave ByteDance a one-week delay so that the company could have time to conclude the necessary deal.According to the new decision of the Administration of President Donald Trump, the deadline for the sale of TikTok’s American assets will expire on December 4.

The Russian UNIGINE engine has received a large-scale update. The developers have added new features to it, which can also be used for game development. Among them are updated clouds and a new smoothing technology.

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia may soon become the largest shareholder of the Japanese studio SNK — developers of the Metal Slug series. He is suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

When launching an advertising campaign, you should not rush. First, you should check whether the revenue from paying players can recoup the cost of traffic. This is done with the help of test purchases. Sergey Ryabov, Vice President of Advertising and Marketing at AdSide Media, talks about how to conduct them correctly in his guide.

At the beginning of this year Vyacheslav Makarov left Wargaming to get involved in politics. However, he has now announced his resignation from the Direct Democracy Party, of which he was one of the founders.Makarov’s departure became known yesterday on the official website of the Direct Democracy Party.

The Canadian media portal Visual Capitalist told what has been happening with video games over the past fifty years. The company reflected the main events in the infographic.

tinyBuild continues to invest in its Hello Neighbor brand. The publisher announced investments in Lviv Hologryph, the authors of Secret Neighbor. The amount of investments amounted to $3 million.

On paper, the Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5. However, the first tests show that the multiplatform now works better and more stable on the Sony console. The reasons are banal. First: game developers had less time to optimize games for a Microsoft device. Second: less convenient tools and weaker documentation for it. This was told by The Verge, after talking with various teams that were preparing new releases for the latest…

The British mobile publisher Kwalee has shared a new record. Downloads of his hyper-casual titles have passed the half a billion mark.

Phil Spencer talked about the process of making deals with developers in a new interview with The Verge. The head of Xbox admitted that the company is in search of the perfect financial model for the Game Pass and seeks to increase the number of hours that subscribers spend in games.At the moment, Microsoft does not have a clear model and strategy of how much to pay developers for the presence of their games in…

The Indian government continues to ban mobile applications created by developers from China. This time, AliExpress, Alipay and about forty other projects fell under the knife. There are also games on the Indian blacklist.

Creating an exciting hyper-casual is not as easy as it seems, says Tomer Geller, the leading game designer at Supersonic Studios. In his column on Gamasutra, he shared four key principles that developers should follow during prototyping. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

Lion Studios is going against the trend. While the bulk of mobile teams are trying themselves in a hyper-casual niche, the company that has earned a name in this niche is launching a hardcore project about the distant future, the construction of bases and giant walking robots.

Among Us attracts not only the attention of gamers, but also the authorities. In Kazakhstan, a security check of the game was carried out after messages appeared in parental WhatsApp chats that the InnerSloth project allegedly leads to suicides.

Square Enix will launch a special program that will allow you to transfer most of the employees to permanent remote work without loss of efficiency. The company plans to adapt to the realities of the “new world” and make remote access a new standard.The Japanese publisher will divide all employees into remote (at least three times a week they work from home) and office (at least three times a week they work from the office).