News May 13, 2022

Sales of Square Enix mobile and browser games exceeded a billion dollars in 2021

This is almost half of the Japanese company’s gaming revenue, according to a report by Square Enix for the last fiscal year. In total, the publisher earned $ 2.17 billion from the games (6% more compared to 2020).

News May 13, 2022

Phil Spencer: The decision to move Starfield and Redfall was difficult for both developers and players

Yesterday, Bethesda announced that it is postponing the release of Starfield and Redfall for the first half of 2023. Soon, the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, decided to comment on the transfer.

News May 13, 2022

Remedy reported for the first quarter. Its revenue increased by 55.9%

Finnish Remedy is another gaming company that has shared a financial report. She said that the first quarter of 2022 was quite successful. Revenue amounted to €12.6 million, and operating profit reached €2.7 million.

Vacancies May 13, 2022

Vacancies of the week: ZiMAD, Dankolab and Joy Way are looking for employees

New week – new vacancies. This week they are wanted: an art director at Dankolab, a game designer at ZiMAD and a developer at Unreal Engine (Multiplayer) at Joy Way.

News May 13, 2022

The Yakuza series, along with the Judgment games, sold 2.9 million copies between April 2021 and March 2022.

Sega Sammy has published a report for the fiscal year 2022, which ended on March 31. In it, the company, among other things, mentioned the successes of the main IP.

News May 13, 2022

The turnover of the Korean gaming market will reach $20.98 billion by 2026

The Korean gaming market became the fourth largest by revenue in the world in 2021, according to ResearchAndMarkets.com . It accounted for over 6% of the total turnover. There were more only in the USA, China and Japan.

News May 13, 2022

A class action lawsuit was filed against the evaluation company Wata Games. She is accused of conspiring to artificially inflate the prices of retro games

Wata Games is a company evaluating the condition of sealed cartridges with retro games. A year ago, she got into the center of a scandal because of fraud. Allegedly, she, along with the Heritage Auctions auction site, manipulated prices on the market.

News May 13, 2022

The ten largest gaming companies accounted for 65% of the market revenue in 2021

Newzoo has published the top 10 public companies by gaming revenue for 2021. She also estimated that last year these companies earned a total of $126 billion — 10.2% more than in 2020. For comparison, the annual revenue of the entire gaming market amounted to $192.7 billion.

News May 13, 2022

PUBG Mobile revenue exceeded $8 billion — 57% of the game earned in China

According to Sensor Tower analysts, only four mobile games managed to overcome the $8 billion revenue milestone. These are Honor of Kings, Monster Strike, Clash of Clans, and now PUBG Mobile.

News May 13, 2022

Bloomberg: PlayStation employees criticized Jim Ryan’s letter calling for “respect for different opinions” about abortion

The last two weeks in the United States have been hotly discussing the possible abolition of the constitutional right to abortion. Jim Ryan, the head of Sony’s gaming division, did not stand aside either.

Analytics May 12, 2022

Investments in Turkish game development last year amounted to $266 million. The local market is also on the rise

The turnover of the Turkish gaming market for the first time exceeded the billion dollar mark. To be more specific, he earned $1.2 billion last year. And this is against the background of growing investor interest in local companies.

News May 12, 2022

The contribution of the gaming industry to the UK GDP amounted to $3.5 billion in 2021

The British Independent Game Developers Association (TIGA) has prepared a new report on the country’s gaming industry. She estimated that last year local gaming companies brought $3.5 billion to the country’s economy — 31% more than in the period from May 2019 to April 2020.

Conferences May 12, 2022

An online conference for gaming HR specialists will be held on May 26. It will discuss, among other things, access to new markets

WN Media Group has announced a new session of Talents In Games: HR Conference. Recall that this is the only conference for HR specialists of game dev. It will be held online on May 26.

News May 12, 2022

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel earned $72.16 million on mobile devices only

As part of the financial report, Konami recalled that recently its collectible card game Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel generated 30 million downloads. We decided to see how the project is doing with revenue.

News May 12, 2022

Last year was the most profitable in Konami’s history

Konami has revealed the results of the fiscal year 2022. It became a record for her — each category of profit (operating, pre-tax and others) was able to reach the highest level for the entire existence of the Japanese publisher.

News May 12, 2022

Mass media: in China, they began to refuse registration of trademarks with the word “metaverse”

The Chinese authorities are strengthening control over metaverse projects. The SCMP business portal reports that recently “several” companies have failed to register trademarks containing the phrase “yuan yuzhou” (translated as “metaverse”).

News May 12, 2022

Codemasters Cheshire has joined Criterion Games — the studios will work together on the new Need For Speed

Electronic Arts has decided to strengthen the Need For Speed development team. Now the Codemasters division from Cheshire has officially joined Criterion Games.

News May 12, 2022

Google now allows developers to create more special pages for apps on Google Play

On May 11, Google held a conference for developers I/O 2022, at which it presented, among other things, new features for its mobile store.

News May 12, 2022

The revenue of the mobile gaming market continues to decline. In the first quarter, it fell by 6%

The analytical company Sensor Tower looked at how things were with mobile games in the first quarter of 2022. She found out that gamers began to gradually reduce costs — the numbers are declining for the second quarter in a row.

News May 12, 2022

Sales of Rune Factory 5 exceeded 500 thousand copies

This was announced by the publisher of Marvelous. It took into account worldwide sales of both physical editions of the game and digital copies. How the circulation was distributed is not specified. But it is known that by last June, 127.9 thousand cartridges with Rune Factory 5 for the Nintendo Switch were sold in Japan.

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Sales of Square Enix mobile and browser games exceeded a billion dollars in 2021

Phil Spencer: The decision to move Starfield and Redfall was difficult for both developers and players

Remedy reported for the first quarter. Its revenue increased by 55.9%

Vacancies of the week: ZiMAD, Dankolab and Joy Way are looking for employees

The Yakuza series, along with the Judgment games, sold 2.9 million copies between April 2021 and March 2022.

The turnover of the Korean gaming market will reach $20.98 billion by 2026

A class action lawsuit was filed against the evaluation company Wata Games. She is accused of conspiring to artificially inflate the prices of retro games

The ten largest gaming companies accounted for 65% of the market revenue in 2021

PUBG Mobile revenue exceeded $8 billion — 57% of the game earned in China

Bloomberg: PlayStation employees criticized Jim Ryan’s letter calling for “respect for different opinions” about abortion

Investments in Turkish game development last year amounted to $266 million. The local market is also on the rise

The contribution of the gaming industry to the UK GDP amounted to $3.5 billion in 2021

An online conference for gaming HR specialists will be held on May 26. It will discuss, among other things, access to new markets

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel earned $72.16 million on mobile devices only

Last year was the most profitable in Konami’s history

Mass media: in China, they began to refuse registration of trademarks with the word “metaverse”

Codemasters Cheshire has joined Criterion Games — the studios will work together on the new Need For Speed

Google now allows developers to create more special pages for apps on Google Play

The revenue of the mobile gaming market continues to decline. In the first quarter, it fell by 6%

Sales of Rune Factory 5 exceeded 500 thousand copies