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 Alexey Savchenko, the founder of Magnifier One.

At the last The Game Awards, Saber Interactive studio announced the sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The creation of a third-person shooter is handled by a division from St. Petersburg, and the head of the World War Z team heads the development.

On the morning of December 10, a large-scale ceremony of The Game Awards 2021 was held, at which the best games of the past year were awarded and new items were announced. Many gamers were satisfied with the show, but the stock market did not react to this. The share price of public companies whose games were shown on TGA has hardly changed.

Exactly a year ago, Cyberpunk 2077 was released. Due to numerous problems, CD Projekt shares have fallen by 54% during this time. At the same time, sales of the game are far from initially optimistic forecasts and may turn out to be unsatisfactory.Analysts expect the stock to fall by another 12% in the next 12 months, according to Bloomberg.

New details of Microsoft’s negotiations with Apple have become known from the published emails. For the sake of launching a cloud gaming service in the App Store, the company was ready to make a number of compromises. On iOS, among other things, AAA Xbox exclusives could appear. However, the negotiations have reached an impasse due to financial and technical differences.This was reported by The Verge with reference to documents related to the litigation between Apple…

Google has confirmed that it is going to move Android games to Windows soon. She has officially announced the desktop version of the Google Play Games app. The project is scheduled for release in 2022.

Kickstarter has announced plans to create a “decentralized future” for its platform. Next year it will switch to the blockchain protocol. The company’s decision was criticized by many indie developers, promising to switch to other crowdfunding platforms.Kickstarter told about its plans on the official website.

There is a replenishment in the series of metaverses. MYTONA has officially released its metaverse project, MYTONAVERSE, in softlonch. This is a social sandbox where users can create their own worlds, chat with friends and rebuild a virtual environment for themselves.

Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands has summed up the financial results of the first three quarters of 2021. The company specializing in NFT is doing well. Among other things, she said that from September to November, the value of her digital assets increased more than fivefold — to 22.57 billion Australian dollars ($15.87 billion).

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 Vladimir Markin, CEO of Pixonic (MY.GAMES).

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.