Recently Ubisoft announced its own Quartz NFT platform. It will sell unique cosmetic items for the company’s AAA titles. Despite Ubisoft’s ambitious plans, the announcement video received over 96% dislikes. Players, among others, do not understand why they should use blockchain to sell “cosmetics”, because there are much more reliable and time-tested technologies for this.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Elena Morina, CEO and founder of the Ravenage publishing house.

CD Projekt has a chance to resolve the conflict with investors in a pre-trial order. The company has entered into negotiations to settle the class action. Separately, the developers of Cyberpunk 2077 noted that they are not going to agree with all the claims in their address.CD Projekt announced this in a new report on its official website.

Apple managed to appeal the verdict in the Epic Games trial the day before it took effect. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal upheld Tim Cook‘s company and suspended the execution of the previous court’s decision. It is assumed that it may take about a year to review the case.

The Russian indie team Four Quarters has announced that Loop Hero has sold a million copies on Steam.

iOS developers have new features. The App Store has officially launched the Custom product pages tool. It allows you to create additional pages for a published mobile application.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Vasily Maguryan and Elena Grigoryan, CEO and Marketing Director of MY.GAMES Corporation.

Niko Partners has shared its forecast for the Asian* mobile and PC games market for 2025. According to analysts, by this time its turnover will grow to $41.8 billion. Almost all of the revenue will be brought by only two countries — Japan and South Korea.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Ilya Spiridonov, Commercial director of Alconost.

Sensor Tower and App Annie have presented their reports on the global mobile games market for 2021. According to both companies, users spent almost $90 billion on mobile titles. Analysts also shared their own data on the most downloaded and cash projects.Genshin Impact

Developers who tried to get a job at Riot Games, Rockstar and Manticore Games have become victims of scammers. Unknown attackers presented themselves as recruiters of companies, and then extorted hundreds of dollars from applicants. The real Riot Games is going to investigate and sue the scammers.

The dismissals of temporary Raven Software testers did not leave many employees in other Activision Blizzard studios indifferent. To date, more than 200 people have joined the strike. They protest against “arbitrariness” in the workplace and demand the reinstatement of all dismissed.Call of Duty: Warzone

Minsk studio FreePlay reported on a new achievement. The total number of downloads of her games worldwide exceeded 500 million. It took the company only two years to do this.

Green Grey has announced a collaboration with the American developer and publisher Megu Games, which specializes in mobile games. She intends to invest $1.1 million in their joint project — the hybrid word game World Estates.

The American indie studio Ward B, leading the development of the sci-fi shooter Oceanic, accused the Russian concern Kalashnikov of theft. The developer claims that the firearms manufacturer copied the design of one of his shotguns without permission.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Alexandra Kurdyumova and Alina Davletshina, senior partner and senior lawyer at VERSUS.legal.

Wanted: producer at Belka Games, lead game designer at Game Insight and brand manager at GAMEPOSITIVE.

In October, mobile games based on the Korean TV series “The Squid Game” were among the most downloaded. However, since then, the hype around them has subsided. According to AppMagic analysts, the number of downloads of such titles decreased by 2.7 times.

At the end of last week, Activision Blizzard cut about a third of Raven Software’s QA specialists responsible for testing Call of Duty: Warzone. As a result, the employees staged a strike, demanding to reinstate the dismissed and offer them the previously promised promotions.Call of Duty: Warzone