The slots category invariably attracts a large number of viewers on Twitch. Every month during 2022, she got into the top 15 in terms of the number of views, but in May for the first time she was able to take the ninth place in the chart. This was mentioned in the joint report by StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg .

TikTok‘s parent company receives a good income from mobile games, despite problems with the gaming business. Sensor Tower analysts estimated that for the period from June 21, 2021 to June 20, 2022, the total revenue of its titles exceeded $ 1 billion, and downloads — 139 million.

The head of Electronic Arts is not the only head of a large gaming company whose annual bonuses have recently been reduced. Axios has noticed that Yves Guillemot from Ubisoft has also reduced the size of his bonus payments. Next year he will receive €310,607 less than before.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a leading level designer at DouDouGames, a VFX artist at Playrix and a Unity developer at Siklarda.

There is another studio from veterans of the gaming industry — Liithos. It was founded by John Garvin, creative director of Days Gone, and Michael Mumbauer, former head of That’s No Moon and Visual Arts Service Group.

The Japanese company Square Enix held a shareholders’ meeting at which it shared its plans for the future. Among other things, she mentioned that she was going to create NFTs that would be written into the plots of the games.

Another analytical company has published a study. Newzoo tried to find out what the audience of video games in the USA looks like now. We have selected the main thing from the report.

About the pitfalls when working with Chinese game publishers, — she told in her column for App2Top.ru Svetlana Gordey, a leading lawyer of the REVERA legal group.

In China, not everything is in order in the gaming market. Gamma Data analysts estimated that in May 2022, he was able to earn only $3.4 billion – 6.74% less than last year. At the same time, in April and March, market revenue also fell (by 3.4% and 9.05%).

In March, owners of YouTube channels with Destiny 2 videos began to complain en masse that their content was being blocked due to DMCA strikes sent on behalf of Bungie. Recently, the studio was able to find out who was behind the attack, and demanded compensation in the amount of $7.65 million through the court.

Perhaps Apple is still planning to release its own augmented reality headset. This was hinted at by the head of the corporation Tim Cook (Tim Cook) in an interview with China Daily.

VK decided to attract more developers to the VK Play gaming platform. To do this, she reduced the commission for Russian and foreign teams from 30% to 5%.

The German Ministry of Economy regularly invests in local game developers. According to German media, since March it has invested about €27 million in video games. The other day, the country’s authorities announced that they had made new investments.

Analytical company data.ai She shared her forecast about the situation with mobile games in the second quarter of 2022. According to her calculations, gamers will spend $21.5 billion in April-June, which is 30% more than in the same period in 2019.

Yesterday, the Russian government officially submitted to the State Duma a bill on the creation of a so-called “single app store”. If it is accepted, then this store will be mandatory pre-installed on smartphones sold in the country.

FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 (aka FSR 2.0), a technology that allows you to improve image quality, has appeared on GitHub. This means that now all developers, if desired, will be able to add upscaling support to games.

Medieval action game Chivalry 2 got off to a great start on Steam. The game appeared in the Valve store on June 12 and, according to the developers, has already sold over 300 thousand copies there by today.

The companies organized the Metaverse Standards Forum. Within the framework of this forum, they will try to form standards for the open metaverse and develop a common terminology. The giants are also going to discuss project prototypes, hackathons, plugins and open source tools.

In mid-May, Playkot hosted the global launch of its new Spring Valley game. By June, its business metrics had reached excellent values: the percentage of those paying was 7.7%, and the retention of the first day for organics was 41%. We talked about the history of Spring Valley and the specifics of its development with the producers of the game — Evgeny Smirnov and Konstantin Popov.