Korean Krafton demanded to remove Free Fire from mobile stores. She is unhappy with the excessive similarity of this battle royale and her PUBG game. The company has already filed a lawsuit, in which it also mentioned Apple and Google, for not preventing the distribution of the “fake”.

The story about the development of the Doom port for the 3DO console has begun to gain popularity again on the web. The person who bought the rights was sure that it was enough to simply copy the files from the PC version, and new weapons could be added simply in the form of pictures. Now this story is being compared to people’s fantasies about transferring NFT items between different games.

On January 4, a cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic appeared in the PlayStation Plus subscription. In the first week, Sony game console owners downloaded the game 6 million times. Before the game appeared in the service, its cumulative sales across all platforms were 3 million copies.

Last October, indie publisher Armor Games offered its employees to temporarily switch to a four-day working week. The experiment was supposed to end on December 31, but the company considered such a schedule convenient and decided never to work on Fridays again.

Apple has changed the prices in the App Store for a number of regions again. We are also talking about Ukraine. This is due to a new local law that obliges international Internet companies to pay VAT of 20% on the territory of the country.Apple announced the pricing policy changes to the developers on January 12.

The volume of transactions in the video game industry continues to grow. Investment banking firm Drake Star Partners estimated that in 2021, gaming companies conducted public offerings, investments and M&A transactions worth $85.4 billion. This is 154%* more than in the previous year.

In the first week of January, Genshin Impact achieved another achievement. According to the analytical service AppMagic, user spending in the game on mobile platforms has exceeded the $3 billion mark since its release.The total revenue of Genshin Impact in the App Store and Google Play since August 2020 amounted to $1.8 billion (after deducting the share of stores and taxes).

A free online forum for representatives of the gaming industry “PlayUK Russia” will be held next week. Experts from British and Russian companies will speak at it, who will talk about the specifics of local gaming markets. One of the days will be completely devoted to networking.A series of meetings within the framework of “PlayUK Russia” will be held from January 17 to 20.

App Annie spoke about the indicators of the Russian mobile games market over the past year and its dynamics over the past five years. We share graphs.

By the end of December App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

The sensational word puzzle Wordle has not been left without imitators. One of the most notable was Wordle — The App, which among other things has a paid mode. The clone managed to collect more than 12 thousand installations and came under a barrage of criticism from other developers before Apple removed it from the App Store.

Riot Games shared the company’s development plan for the next five years. At the same time, the developers of League of Legends made an unusual offer to all employees. Anyone who does not agree with the new vision and goals of the company can quit. As compensation, such a person will be paid 25% of the annual salary.Legends of Runeterra

The publishing house “Peter” this January released on the shelves “500 years later: Final Fantasy VII“, a book on the history of the creation of one of the most commercially successful and highly valuable parts of the series. We tell you about the book and share a small excerpt from it.

Wanted: senior game designer at Vector Games (SberGames), narrative designer at Playrix and brand manager at GAMEPOSITIVE.

With the results of Red Brix Wall, we complete our traditional cycle of ready-made results. In this publication, the company’s founder Fedor Zaitsev and partner Zakhar Serebryannikov share the successes of their young studio (for example, the growth of Global City indicators).

Stanislav Sychenkov, lead for ironSource business development in Russia and the CIS, told how the past year has just passed for the marketing company. Among the results are numerous purchases and the launch of solutions for optimizing advertising campaigns.

Marketing expert Eric Seufert spoke about five trends that will manifest themselves in the mobile games market in 2022. The analyst believes that Apple and Google will oppose titles with the play-to-earn model, and developers will begin to actively optimize their projects and advertising strategies for Android.There will be no games with the play-to-earn model in mobile stores

Yesterday, Take-Two announced the purchase of Zynga for $12.7 billion and announced plans to move its main franchises to mobile. Soon after, the shares of the GTA publisher went down.

Today we are completing the cycle of results for 2021. One of the latest publications is from Sergey Trofimov, co—founder of Nordcurrent. He spoke about the company’s new releases and shared plans for the release of future products.