Advertising-based fraud in mobile games is a global problem. According to Adjust, the number of fraud has increased by more than 170% over the year, and fraudsters are increasingly faking organic traffic.From January to August 2020, Adjust analyzed more than 14.3 billion installations worldwide, including the United States, Europe, Latin America and China.

The MY.GAMES investment division has announced the acquisition of a minority stake from three mobile-related gaming companies at once. Now the brand has 34 closed deals on its account.

The Indian studio Bombay Play has attracted $1 million in seed investments. The developers plan to spend this money on creating “world-class social HTML5 games”.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Mateusz Szukaite, CEO of Galaktus PR agency. He spoke about the redistribution of advertising budgets of games in favor of online.

App Store revenue will not change much after the current commission reduction, Sensor Tower said. Analysts have estimated that 96.7% of the gaming part of the store consists of developers with less than $1 million in revenue. But at the same time, their games account for only 2% of the expenses of iOS gamers.

Kalypso Media has announced the completion of the takeover process of Realmforge Studios. Now the publisher Tropico owns 100% of the shares of the German developer, known for the Dungeons series of strategy games.As part of the deal, Kalypso Media not only increased its share from the original 60%, but also expanded the staff of Realmforge, as well as moved the team to a new office in Munich.

Epic Games has introduced an update for the Unreal Engine. A number of significant changes have been added to the engine version 4.26, including a new system of water and clouds, as well as an editor for creating realistic hair and wool.

Apple has started accepting applications to reduce the commission in the App Store for developers who earn less than $1 million a year. At the same time, the company spoke in detail about the conditions of participation in the program.

What impact does the gaming industry have on the US economy? The Association of Software and Games Manufacturers (ESA) told about this in its new report. Last year alone, the direct contribution of this sector to the American economy exceeded $40 billion.General data

BioWare is losing frames. General Manager Casey Hudson and Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah are leaving the company.

Sam & Max: Save the World remaster was released yesterday. The updated version was handled by the Skunkape studio, consisting of the developers of the original game. On this occasion, we gathered the opinions of critics about whether the team managed to breathe new life into the classic quest.About the game

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Vera Karpova, the product manager devtodev.

The creator of Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, together with other veterans of the Japanese industry, opened a new studio — Bokeh Game Studio. The developers have already started working on their own project in the spirit of the famous horror.

Developer Phoenix Labs, known for the Dauntless free-to-play role-playing game, has announced an expansion. The company is opening two new offices — in Montreal and Los Angeles – to work on future projects.The Montreal office will be managed by gaming industry veteran Andre Roy, who worked at Ubisoft on the Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six franchises.

Mobile operator Jio Platforms, in which Facebook and Google previously invested $ 20 billion, has taken up gaming investments. The Indian company was one of the sponsors of the California startup Krikey, which develops mobile AR games.

It seems that Hideo Kojima was able to settle the relationship with Konami. The network started talking about the possible announcement of the restart of Silent Hill from the developer at The Game Awards 2020.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with the CEO and co-founder of AppFollow Anatoly Sharifulin.

Last night, Fortnite hosted a large—scale event with Galactus, a character from the Marvel universe. More than 15.3 million players gathered at the same time for the battle with the “Devourer of Worlds”. This is a new record online for battle royale.

We are launching our annual series of materials “Results of the Year“. In it, we interview top managers and experts of the gaming industry about how the year has passed for their company. The series opens with our interview with Vasily Sabirov, head of analytics at Easybrain.